Configuring Cloud Armor security policies
Imagine that you have deployed your web application globally using several backend services in different GCP regions and you distribute the traffic using the external HTTP(S) load balancer. Now, to secure your web application, you need to deploy different security services. Google Cloud offers Cloud Armor, which is a fully distributed managed service to protect your web application against Denial of Service (DoS), Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), and web application attacks. More specifically, Cloud Armor can protect from the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) top 10 attacks. This is the list of the top 10 most dangerous attacks targeting web applications. It is a list that is updated by the OWASP every year. It can also mitigate DDoS at scale. Cloud Armor has the following features:
- IP-based and geo-based access control: You can blacklist clients based on IP ranges or from Google's GeoIP maps.
- A pre-configured...
