US 11,677,716 B2
System of a distributed web application firewall cluster
Frank DiRosa, Pflugerville, TX (US); Rene Herrero, Round Rock, TX (US); Poul C. Frederiksen, Austin, TX (US); Yongliang Li, Round Rock, TX (US); and Rashmi Krishnamurthy, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed by Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed on Oct. 15, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/653,319.
Prior Publication US 2021/0112032 A1, Apr. 15, 2021
Int. Cl. H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 63/0218 (2013.01) [H04L 63/1416 (2013.01); H04L 63/1425 (2013.01); H04L 63/20 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implementable method for management of a distributed web application firewall (WAF) cluster comprising:
configuring an infrastructure that includes administrative settings of the WAF cluster that includes one or more WAFs, for one or more protected applications, wherein the configuring includes a ruleset for the WAF cluster directed to access of requestors to the protected applications and the administrative settings includes IP addresses to be blocked based on log entries written to logging repositories by the WAF cluster, wherein the WAF cluster is configured and updated as to a tailored suite for a particular user;
validating the configured infrastructure of the WAF cluster;
implementing the validated WAF cluster as a route service for the one or more applications;
validating requests by the WAF cluster to the protected applications based on the ruleset and IP addresses to be blocked; and
providing alerts when the protected applications are attached to a message, wherein a message queue/backend is provided data to understand the alerts.