Then rebuild your Apache, Nginx or OpenLiteSpeed webserver using the following commands./build apache You can enable either OWASP or Comodo ModSecurity Rules using the following commands. With DirectAdmin you can install free ModSecurity Rules provided by either OWASP or Comodo ModSecurity Rules using custombuild GUI or command line or you can utilise Commercial ModSecurity Rules provided by Malware.Expert or Imunif圓60, however installation of these is outside of the scope of the guide. It comes with a Core Rule Set (CRS) which has various rules for cross website scripting, bad user agents, SQL injection, trojans, session hijacking, and other exploits. ModSecurity supports a flexible rule engine to perform both simple and complex operations. A web application firewall will establish an external security layer to your server that increases the protection level, detects, and prevents attacks before they even reach web-based software programs such as WordPress.

ModSecurity provides admins with a toolkit to enable real-time web application monitoring, full traffic logging with full access control over rules to protect your server potentially blocking common code injection attacks which further strengthens the security of the server. One of the pieces of essential security software installed on many servers is ModSecurity, which is sometimes referred to as Modsec and enables a web application firewall for a server.

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