Arachni Firewall for Web Application Security | Desklib

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The firewall that is installed is Arachni for application based security scanner. The
Arachni is feature full as well as modular framework with high performance that helps to
penetrate the testers as well as administrators that helps to access security of the web application.
The Arachni firewall is a smart framework that examines as well learns from the action of web
application. Arachni can also perform meta-analysis using many factors so that they can access
trustworthiness of all the results correctly and also identify false positive. There are many
features of the Arachni firewall are as follows:
 There is support of customer header.
 Agent spoofing of user.
 Provides proxy support for HTTP/1.1, HTTP/1.0, SOCKS4, and SOCKS5.
 Also provides proxy authentication.
 Cookie jar support.
 Provides SSL support with fine grained options.
 Custom header support.
 Detection of automatic logout.
 404 page detection.
 Site authentication that are SSL based or form based.
 Stop or resume functionality.
The high area of risks and threats that Arachni firewall can mitigate are stated below.