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General availability: Seamlessly upgrade your Application Gateway V2 WAF configuration to a policy
Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall (WAF) on Application Gateway now supports a fully automated experience when upgrading your WAF from configuration to policy.
Generally available: Policy analytics for Azure Firewall
Policy analytics for Azure Firewall, now in general availability, provides enhanced visibility into traffic flowing through Azure Firewall, enabling the optimization of your firewall configuration without impacting your application performance.
April 2023
General availability: IP Protection SKU for Azure DDoS Protection
IP Protection provides cost-effective, enterprise-grade DDoS protection designed to meet the needs of SMB.
March 2023
Generally available: Azure Firewall Basic
Azure Firewall Basic provides cost-effective, enterprise-grade network security for small and medium businesses (SMBs).
Public preview: Illumio for Azure Firewall
Illumio for Azure Firewall enables organizations to understand application traffic and dependencies and apply consistent protection across environments - limiting exposure, containing breaches, and improving efficiency.
February 2023
General availability: Scale improvements and metrics enhancements on Azure’s regional WAF
Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall (WAF) running on Application Gateway now supports improved scale limits, including HTTP listener count, as well as additional metrics dimensions.
December 2022
General availability: Feature enhancements to Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Azure’s WAF now supports multiple new features - SQLi and XSS detection queries, new built-in Azure policies, and increased exclusions limit with support for exclusions on bot manager rule set.
November 2022
General availability: Per Rule Actions on regional Web Application Firewall
Azure's regional Web Application Firewall on Application Gateway now supports customizing actions per rule. This new functionality allows you greater control over how the Web Application Firewall handles incoming traffic.
General availability: Bot Manager Rule Set 1.0 on regional Web Application Firewall
This rule set provides you enhanced protection against bots and provides granular control over bots detected by WAF by categorizing bot traffic as good, bad, or unknown bots.
Public preview: Upgrade from Azure Front Door Standard to Premium tier
You can now use this feature to upgrade your Azure Front Door Standard profile to Premium tier without downtime.
General availability: Default Rule Set 2.1 for Azure Web Application Firewall
Increase your security posture and reduce false positives with Default Rule Set 2.1, now generally available on Azure's global Web Application Firewall running on Azure Front Door.
October 2022
Public preview: IP Protection SKU for Azure DDoS Protection
IP Protection is a new SKU that provides cost-effective, enterprise-grade DDoS protection for SMBs and offers the flexibility to enable protection on an individual public IP.
Public preview: Azure Firewall Basic
Azure Firewall Basic provides cost-effective, enterprise-grade network security for small and medium businesses (SMBs).
September 2022
Public preview: Policy analytics for Azure Firewall
You can now manage firewall rules over time by providing insights and analysis of traffic flowing through Azure Firewall.
General availability: Improvements to Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) custom rules
Target availability: Q3 2022
Azure regional Web Application Firewall (WAF) supports operators “Any” and “GreaterThanOrEqual”, improving WAF tuning capabilities. Azure's global WAF now supports geo-match filtering using the socket address in addition to remote address.
August 2022
Azure Firewall Premium is now ICSA labs certified
Azure Firewall Premium Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) certification from ICSA Labs is now available.
July 2022
Generally available: Azure Gateway Load Balancer
Gateway Load Balancer enables you to deploy, scale, and enhance the availability of third party network virtual appliances (NVAs) in Azure with ease.
June 2022
General availability: Azure WAF policy and DDoS management in Azure Firewall Manager
Azure Firewall Manager supports the ability to manage DDoS Protection plans and Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) policies for workloads and applications, within a centralized place, at scale.
Public preview: Manage Azure Web Application Firewall policies in Azure Firewall Manager
Azure Firewall Manager now supports the ability to manage Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) policies for application delivery platforms, Application Gateway, and Azure Front Door, at scale within a centralized place.
May 2022
Generally available: Enhancements to Azure Web Application Firewall
Latest updates and new enhancements available for Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF).
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