Haltdos WAF Pro

Haltdos Pro Edition Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Haltdos WAF is an intelligent Web Application Firewall solution that provides a front-end for all your web infrastructure. One of its kind, Haltdos brings you a user-friendly Web application firewall as free to access for all, in the form of Haltdos Pro Edition (PE). It constantly analyses all traffic to detect behavioral and anomaly inconsistencies for accurate attack detection and mitigation without impacting the end-user experience. The Pro Edition provides 360 degrees of website security from OWASP 10 threats, XSS, SQL, and other web-based threats. Haltdos WAF PE allows every website owner to defend their applications against growing cyber attacks and ensure the security of their data and customers.

Haltdos WAF is internationally certified with Common Criteria EAL 2+ certification and fully compliant with GDPR, HIPPA, and PCI-DSS guidelines.

Feature Highlights:
  • Web Application Firewall
  • Anti-DDoS Protection
  • Layer 4/7 Load Balancing
  • Bot Protection
  • Real-Time Visibility

Choose Haltdos WAF for:

  • Enterprise-Grade Security: Low latency and high mitigation capacity for sophisticated very high volume attacks.

  • Accurate Bot Protection: Built-in technology to accurately distinguish humans from bots using a combination of user behavioral analysis (UBA), heuristic and reputation techniques.

  • Advanced Load Balancing: Built-in support for Layer 4 / Layer 7 load balancing with multiple algorithms to fine-tune load distribution across multiple web servers.

  • Global Threat Intelligence: Feeds of the latest security threats, malicious IPs, TOR nodes, etc. are periodically pushed for proactive security.

  • Real-time Reporting: Every attack on your website is detected, mitigated, and recorded in real-time - for audit, compliance, and forensic investigation.

Haltdos WAF Pro follows a pay-as-you-use model with first 100K requests free every month and a $30 per million requests later.

For any queries, reach out to our sales team at [email protected]

For any support queries, reach out to our Pro Edition support team at [email protected]

Creating an App using the Control Panel

Click the Deploy to DigitalOcean button to create a Droplet based on this 1-Click App. If you aren’t logged in, this link will prompt you to log in with your DigitalOcean account.

Deploy to DO

Creating an App using the API

In addition to creating a Droplet from the Haltdos WAF Pro 1-Click App using the control panel, you can also use the DigitalOcean API. As an example, to create a 4GB Haltdos WAF Pro Droplet in the SFO2 region, you can use the following curl command. You need to either save your API access token) to an environment variable or substitute it in the command below.

curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
         -H 'Authorization: Bearer '$TOKEN'' -d \
        '{"name":"choose_a_name","region":"sfo2","size":"s-2vcpu-4gb","image": "haltdos-haltdoswafpro"}' \
        "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets"

Getting Started After Deploying Haltdos WAF Pro

  1. The Haltdos Professional GUI can be accessed over https on port 9000.

After navigating to the IP, the below page will be displayed, where the user needs to enter their Email ID and click on the Next button.

After entering their email ID and clicking on the Next button, an OTP (One-Time Password) will be sent to user email address. User need to enter the six-digit code they received and click on the Next button to proceed.

Once the OTP verification process is complete, the below page will be displayed, where the user is required to enter their details such as full name, organization, etc., and click on the Next button.

After the user has entered their details, user will be redirected to a payment gateway. A minimal amount transaction will take place to save the card, which will be refunded back by the card provider/bank. Card must be saved because Haltdos Professional WAF follows a usage based pricing. User will be charged at the end of the monthly billing period, based on the no. of requests that was processed by WAF in that billing period. User has to enter their credit card details and click on the Save Card button of the payment gateway.

Once the payment procedure is completed, the user will be prompted to enter their login details, which will enable them to access their account.

You have successfully subscribed to Haltdos Professional Edition and have registered your instance.

  1. Login to the GUI Console over https on port 9000 using the credentials provided during step 4 of the registration process.

Post login, you will be redirected to the Overview page, as visible below. Now you can start exploring Haltdos Pro WAF.