Analysis of Web Application Firewalls, Challenges, and Research Opportunities

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AbstractAccording to survey in January 2020, over internet almost 1,295,973,827 web sites are hosted. Among them 72% websites are vulnerable to different attack like SQL Injection, Cross Site Scripting, Brute forcing attack, Phishing attack, password attack, birth day attack, malware attack and man in middle attack now days many hackers/attackers are trying to bypass the security mechanism by using new techniques so it’s challenging task to respond newly and unknown attack with an effective solution. In this paper i am trying to find out the techniques, tools, and solutions used to detect attacks, such as intrusion detection systems (IDS), Web Application Firewall (WAF), machine learning (ML) techniques, this tools and techniques is used to discuss analysis of traditional technologies, drawback and produce more effective solutions. In this paper we compared the different web application firewall correspond to its policy control and one proposed a new web application firewall. In the proposed web application firewall we have discussed three approaches.KeywordsWeb application firewallDatasetsSecurityIntrusion detection system