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Azure Networking Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Mustafa Toroman
Book Image

Azure Networking Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Mustafa Toroman

Overview of this book

Azure's networking services enable organizations to manage their networks effectively. With the Azure Networking Cookbook, you’ll see how Azure paves the way for an enterprise to achieve reliable performance and secure connectivity. This updated second edition will take you through the latest networking features in Azure. The book starts with an introduction to Azure networking, covering basics such as creating Azure virtual networks, designing address spaces, and creating subnets. You’ll create and manage network security groups, application security groups, and IP addresses in Azure using easy-to-follow recipes. As you progress through the book, you’ll explore various aspects such as DNS and routing, load balancers, Traffic Manager, and site-to-site, point-to-site, and VNet-to-VNet connections. This cookbook covers all the functions crucial to understanding cloud networking practices and being able to plan, implement, and secure your network infrastructure with Azure. You’ll not only upscale your current environment but also get well-versed with monitoring, diagnosing, and ensuring secure connectivity. The book will help you grasp best practices as you learn how to create a robust environment. By the end of this Azure cookbook, you’ll have gained hands-on experience developing cost-effective solutions that can facilitate efficient connectivity in your organization.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Index

Customizing WAF rules

A WAF comes with a predetermined set of rules. These rules are enforced to increase application security and prevent malicious requests. We can change these rules to address specific issues or requirements as needed.

Getting ready

Before you start, open the browser and go to the Azure portal at https://portal.azure.com.

How to do it...

In order to change the WAF rules, we must do the following:

  1. Select Web application firewall under Settings in the Application gateway pane.
  2. Select Rules in the WAF settings. Select Enabled under Advanced rule configuration, as shown in Figure 12.26:
    Setting Advanced rule configuration to Enabled in the Web application firewall pane

    Figure 12.26: Enabling Advanced rule configuration

  3. The rules will appear in the form of a list. We can check or uncheck boxes to enable or disable rules:
    Customizing the WAF rules in the Application gateway pane

Figure 12.27: Customizing WAF rules in the Application gateway pane

How it works...

A WAF comes with all rules activated by default. This can slow down performance, so we can disable some of...