CloudGuard WAF
  • Documentation Overview
  • What is CloudGuard WAF?
  • Getting started
    • Prepare key information
    • Log in to the Infinity Portal
    • Protect a Web Application / API
    • Deploy Enforcement Point
      • Gateway/Virtual Machine
        • AWS
          • Store Certificates in AWS
          • Store certificates on Gateway
        • Azure
          • Store Certificates in Azure
          • Store Certificates on Gateway
        • VMware
          • Store Certificates on Gateway
          • Configure networking in VMware Deployments
      • WAF as a Service
        • Certificates Managed by Check Point
        • Bring Your Own Certificate
      • Kubernetes Ingress
        • Kong Application Security
        • Istio Application Security
      • Docker
        • Single Docker
          • Deployment using 'docker' command
            • Store Certificates Locally on Docker
          • Deployment in Azure App Services
        • Dual Docker: NGINX/Kong/Envoy + Security Agent
      • Linux / NGINX / Kong
    • Monitor Events
  • Concepts
    • Gateways & Agents
    • Management & Automation
    • Security Practices
    • Contextual Machine Learning
  • Additional Security Engines
    • Anti-Bot
    • API Protection
      • API Discovery
      • Track API Discovery Learning
      • Enforce API Schema
    • File Security
    • Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
    • Rate Limit
    • Snort Rules
  • SETUP INSTRUCTIONS
    • Setup Custom Rules and Exceptions
    • Setup Web User Response Pages
    • Setup Log Triggers
    • Setup Report Triggers
    • Setup Notification Triggers
    • Setup Behavior Upon Failure
    • Setup Agent Upgrade Schedule
  • HOW TO
    • Edit Web Application/API Settings
    • Edit Reverse Proxy Advanced Settings for a Web Asset
    • Protect an existing production site with CloudGuard WAF's Gateway
    • View Policy of all your Web Applications/APIs
    • Add Data Loss Prevention (DLP) rules
    • Configure Contextual Machine Learning for Best Accuracy
    • Track Agent Status
    • Track Learning and Move from Learn/Detect to Prevent
    • Rotate profile authentication token
    • Upgrade your Reverse Proxy when a Linux/NGINX agent is installed
    • Use Terraform to Manage CloudGuard WAF
    • Authorize Temporary Access for Check Point Support
    • Restrict Access to Backend Servers from CloudGuard WAF as a Service IPs Only
  • Troubleshooting
    • WAF Gateway / Virtual Machine
      • Azure
        • "Unable to find a tag containing the vault's name in the VMSS" Error
        • How To: Configure Key Vault for a Single Gateway
      • NGINX Error: Upstream Sent Too Big Header While Reading Response Header from Upstream
      • How To: Compare Between the Gateway's Certificate and the Upstream Certificate
    • Linux
      • SELinux: Checking Status and Disabling
    • WAF as a Service
      • Certificate Validation Failed: Adjusting CAA Record
      • How To: Redirect a Root Domain to a Subdomain Protected by WAF SaaS
      • How To: Extend Connection Timeout to Upstream
      • How To: Update Expired Certificates
  • references
    • Agent CLI
    • Management API
    • Event Query Language
    • Writing Snort Signatures
    • Events/Logs Schema
    • CVE-2022-3786 and CVE-2022-3602: OpenSSL X.509 Email Address Buffer Overflows (HIGH)
    • CVE-2025-1097, CVE-2025-1098, CVE-2025-24514, CVE-2025-1974: Ingress NGINX Controller RCE (Critical)
  • Resources
    • GitHub
    • Docker Hub
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  1. Additional Security Engines

Anti-Bot

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CloudGuard WAF's Anti-Bot engine aims at recognizing if the origin of incoming traffic to the protected web application was a human or an automatic script (such as a bot), and to allow blocking non-human activity when set to Prevent mode.

How to set up Anti-Bot

Step 1: Locate the exact URIs used by the login/registration forms of your web application

The Anti-Bot protection injects scripts to the response when a user performs a "GET" request, and uses the output of the injected script to analyze the behavior upon the "POST" request of the login page, as the user fills the login/registration forms.

A security administrator protecting a web application, needs to request the owner of the web application's API, for the following:

  • All URIs used to access login/registration pages (via the GET method).

  • All URIs used to POST the login/registration request/form.

The required data is URIs and not URLs, meaning the relative path of the GET/POST requests (without the domain name).

Once both the security administrator has both lists, the next steps are performed in the administration web application for CloudGuard WAF.

Step 2: Browse to Policy->Assets and edit the Web Application / API asset

Once the asset edit window opens, select the Anti Bot tab and click on Click to add a new Anti Bot Practice.

Step 3: Add the list of login/registration URIs to inject scripts and URIs to validate

Click on the '+' sign in each of the 2 URI tables and add:

  • In the Injected URIs table - the login/registration "GET" URIs from step 1.

  • In the Validated URIs table - the login/registration "POST" URIs from step 1.

When making the first change to the default Web Application Best Practice's configuration such as setting URIs to activate the Web Bots security, you will be prompted to change the name of the Practice to your own custom practice name.

Step 3: Make sure the Mode of the Web Bots sub-practice is as desired

Setting the Mode to As Top Level means inheriting the primary mode of the practice.

Otherwise you can override it only for this specific sub-practice to Detect/Prevent/Disable.

Step 4: Enforce Policy

Click Enforce on the top banner of the Infinity Portal.