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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Web Application Firewalls Against Modern Attacks

NeevCode Research Team
22 April 2025

Abstract

Web Application Firewalls are marketed as a critical security control, yet their effectiveness varies dramatically across vendors and configurations. This paper presents a comparative evaluation of 6 commercial WAF solutions against a standardized attack suite of 250+ payloads, including modern evasion techniques and payload encoding strategies.

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