ModSecurity is a powerful web application layer firewall for Apache web servers. It monitors the entire HTTP traffic to a website without affecting its overall performance and when it identifies an intrusion attempt, it prevents it. The firewall additionally keeps a more comprehensive log for the traffic than any server does, so you'll manage to keep an eye on what is happening with your Internet sites much better than if you rely merely on standard logs. ModSecurity uses security rules based on which it stops attacks. For instance, it identifies whether someone is trying to log in to the administrator area of a specific script several times or if a request is sent to execute a file with a specific command. In such circumstances these attempts trigger the corresponding rules and the software blocks the attempts immediately, after that records comprehensive details about them in its logs. ModSecurity is one of the best software firewalls out there and it can easily protect your web apps against a large number of threats and vulnerabilities, especially in case you don’t update them or their plugins frequently.

ModSecurity in Web Hosting

ModSecurity can be found with each web hosting solution that we provide and it's activated by default for every domain or subdomain that you add through your Hepsia CP. In the event that it interferes with any of your programs or you would like to disable it for any reason, you shall be able to do this through the ModSecurity section of Hepsia with just a click. You can also enable a passive mode, so the firewall will discover possible attacks and keep a log, but will not take any action. You could view detailed logs in the exact same section, including the IP address where the attack came from, what precisely the attacker attempted to do and at what time, what ModSecurity did, and so forth. For max protection of our customers we use a group of commercial firewall rules combined with custom ones which are provided by our system administrators.