Managed WAF & DDoS Protection in the UK

What the WAF actually blocks

We deploy the OWASP Core Rule Set as a baseline and tune it against your application's real traffic, so it stops SQL injection, XSS and path traversal without generating false positives on legitimate requests. Rules are reviewed as your application changes, not set once and forgotten — a generic WAF ruleset left untouched for a year is close to useless against a specific application.

• OWASP CRS tuned per application, reviewed as endpoints change
• Rate limiting on login, checkout and API endpoints
• Geo/ASN rules where an application has no legitimate traffic from a region

DDoS mitigation at network and application layer

Layer 3/4 protection sits in front of every plan, absorbing volumetric attacks before they reach your servers. Layer 7 protection filters application-level floods — requests that look legitimate individually but overwhelm an endpoint in volume — using adaptive rate limiting rather than a single fixed threshold that either blocks real users or lets an attack through. We tune the WAF rule set to your application over the first few weeks, since a default OWASP rule set alone tends to either miss real attacks or block genuine traffic.

How AI changes bot and DDoS defence

Attackers now use automated tooling to rotate through IP ranges, spoof browser fingerprints and probe freshly disclosed CVEs within hours of publication, which makes static IP blocklists and fixed rate limits ineffective on their own. We counter with ML-based bot detection, TLS fingerprinting (JA3/JA4) to catch tooling that mimics a real browser at the HTTP level but not at the TLS handshake, and virtual patching that blocks exploitation of a new CVE at the WAF while you schedule the permanent fix.

• ML-based bot detection alongside signature rules
• JA3/JA4 TLS fingerprinting to catch spoofed browser traffic
• Virtual patching for CVEs disclosed faster than you can deploy a fix

Rule tuning is part of your plan

WAF and DDoS rule tuning draws on the CyberSecurity hours included in your plan — 1–8 hours a month on VPS, 5–10 on dedicated servers depending on the plan, 10 on GPU servers, from Advanced upward on cPanel. Request tuning from the client panel when you launch a new endpoint, change your API contract or notice false positives on legitimate traffic. Hours do not roll over into the following month, so we plan tuning work around your release schedule rather than leaving it until something breaks; anything beyond the monthly quota is accepted and billed separately.

How we work

1. Request from the panel

   Open a request under Services describing the endpoint or attack pattern you want us to look at, and a timeframe.

2. Baseline and scope

   We review current traffic and rules, agree what needs tuning, and confirm how many included hours the work will use.

3. Tune and deploy

   We adjust WAF rules and rate limits, test against real traffic patterns, and deploy without an availability window.

4. Confirm and document

   We verify legitimate traffic still flows normally, document the rule changes, and hand over the updated configuration.

Use cases

Technology stack

• OWASP CRS
• ModSecurity
• NGINX
• JA3/JA4 fingerprinting
• Fail2ban
• GeoIP filtering
• Rate limiting