Curriculum · Phase 5 · Module 5.4

WAF, DDoS + Service Meshes

The services that sit in front of and between applications: web application firewalls (OWASP managed rules and the false-positive tuning problem), DDoS protection at the edge, and service meshes that enforce mTLS and service-to-service authorization inside the cluster. Includes a lab on tuning WAF rules to stop blocking legitimate traffic without weakening protection.