Coraza – high performance web application firewall

Coraza Web Application Firewall is an enterprise grade, Golang port of ModSecurity.

It is flexible and powerful enough to serve as the baseline for many projects.

Coraza is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Enforce policies using OWASP CRS or create your own policies to stop attackers and generate important audit information.
• Fast in operation.
• Extensible – audit Loggers, persistence engines, operators, actions, create your own functionalities to extend the program.
• Supports many integrations to deploy a WAF as an application server, reverse proxy, container, and more.
• Enterprise ready.

Website: coraza.io
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Juan Pablo Tosso
License: Apache License 2.0

Coraza is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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