Alternative approaches

In this chapter we implemented the ruleset by manual analysis of the user actions and by carefully breaking down each request to see exactly what should be allowed and denied. We could also have used the graphical tool Remo, as seen in the previous chapter, to create the ruleset in a more user-friendly way.

Another alternative is to use the tool ModProfiler, made available by Breach Security, to automatically analyze known-good traffic for the web application and use that knowledge to create a positive security ruleset with minimal effort. ModProfiler is still in ongoing development—take a look at http://www.modsecurity.org/projects/modprofiler/ for the latest release.