Managing Edge Policies

Manage Edge policies in the Web Application Firewall.

Use the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure WAF service to create an edge policy and origin.

Order of Processing

The order in which rules and handlers are processed is:

  1. IP Whitelists/Blacklists/Good Bot Whitelists
  2. Threat Intelligence
  3. Access Rules
  4. Rate Limiting (available in the API)
  5. JavaScript Challenge
  6. Device Fingerprinting Challenge
  7. Human Interaction Challenge
  8. Captcha Challenge
  9. Protection Rules
  10. Caching Rules

Using the Console

Create and Manage WAF Policies

Using the CLI

Open a command prompt and run the following command to get the details of a WAAS policy:

oci waas waas-policy get --waas-policy-id <policy_ocid>

This can be useful in retrieving the necessary information when opening a ticket with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure support. For more information about how to access and use the CLI, see Command Line Interface (CLI).