ModSecurity is a powerful web app layer firewall for Apache web servers. It monitors the entire HTTP traffic to an Internet site without affecting its performance and when it identifies an intrusion attempt, it blocks it. The firewall additionally maintains a more detailed log for the site visitors than any web server does, so you shall manage to keep track of what's happening with your websites better than if you rely merely on conventional logs. ModSecurity employs security rules based on which it prevents attacks. For example, it detects whether anyone is trying to log in to the administration area of a certain script several times or if a request is sent to execute a file with a specific command. In these circumstances these attempts set off the corresponding rules and the software blocks the attempts in real time, after that records comprehensive details about them within its logs. ModSecurity is among the best software firewalls out there and it can protect your web applications against a large number of threats and vulnerabilities, particularly if you don’t update them or their plugins regularly.

ModSecurity in Website Hosting

ModSecurity is available with each website hosting solution which we provide and it is turned on by default for any domain or subdomain which you add via your Hepsia Control Panel. In case it disrupts any of your programs or you'd like to disable it for whatever reason, you'll be able to do that through the ModSecurity area of Hepsia with only a click. You may also use a passive mode, so the firewall will discover possible attacks and keep a log, but won't take any action. You could see comprehensive logs in the same section, including the IP address where the attack came from, what exactly the attacker tried to do and at what time, what ModSecurity did, and so on. For optimum protection of our customers we use a group of commercial firewall rules mixed with custom ones that are provided by our system administrators.