Nginx-Defender: Enterprise-Grade WAF with Advanced Threat Intelligence
9 months ago
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- #waf
- #devops
- nginx-defender is a high-performance Web Application Firewall (WAF) built with Go, designed for scalability and real-time threat mitigation.
- Features include machine learning-based anomaly detection, comprehensive security analytics, and multi-backend firewall support (iptables, nftables, pf).
- Provides advanced pattern recognition for threats like SQL injection, XSS, and directory traversal.
- Supports real-time dashboard, metrics collection (Prometheus), and multi-channel notifications (Telegram, Slack, Email).
- Can be deployed via Docker, Kubernetes, or as a standalone binary with minimal hardware requirements.
- Includes detailed configuration options for firewall rules, rate limiting, geographic blocking, and honeypot integration.
- Security design follows principles like least privilege, fail-safe defaults, and complete mediation.
- Performance tests show high throughput (150k log entries/sec) and low latency (<5ms for API requests).
- Open-source under MIT license with dependencies like gorilla/mux, logrus, and Prometheus client.