WAF is an additional setting for the application gateway. It's used to increase the security of applications behind the application gateway and also provides centralized protection.
Configuring a WAF
Getting ready
To enable WAF, we must set the application gateway to the WAF tier. To do so, we must do the following:
- In the Application gateway blade, go to Configuration, under Settings, as shown in the following screenshot:
- Change the Tier selection from Standard to WAF. Click the Save button:
How to do it...
After the application gateway is set to WAF, we can...