Sophos Web Server Protection

These days hackers are taking over websites at alarming rate almost everyday someone is getting exploited having the customer data stolen and ending up in the news. Having Sophos XG firewall, web server protection you are just few clicks away from legitimate protection.   Web Server Protection uses a scanning engine and attack pattern to filter against common threats and attacks. The patterns are kept current as part of the automatic pattern updating on the XG Firewall. Unlike many products which may require extensive knowledge and understanding, Sophos’ protection is kept simple allowing the administrator to select which protection methods they want to enable without having to deal with pages of complex patterns and configuration screens  Cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injections are nowadays major threats to protect from them we use URL hardening and form hardening. And not only that it protects from request limits, bad robots, generic attacks and ensure tight security.  Moreover, prevents web servers from leaking information to the client. This includes, among other things, error messages sent by servers which attackers can use to gather sensitive information or detect specific vulnerabilities. Cookie signing prevents cookies from being manipulated.  It acts as reverse proxy for the server. Does authentication, SSL offloading for it and also does load balancing between multiple servers.  GEOIP-based classification allows you to block clients from a specific part of the world.