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Comment by cluckindan

8 months ago

They do mitigate known vulnerabilities.

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rcxdude  8 months ago

They may mitigate known proofs of concept of vulnerabilities, and require a small amount of creativity to work around. At the cost of randomly breaking things.

  • cluckindan  8 months ago

    That creativity takes time. WAFs are the first line of defence, buying some time for fixing the actual vulnerabilities.

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