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How to Protect Your REST API with a Free WAF

Dev.to · Lia 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

How to Protect Your REST API with a Free WAF

Why APIs Need Different Protection Web form attacks (SQLi, XSS) target HTML endpoints. API...

Self-Hosted WAF: What Happens When You Let It Run for a Month

Dev.to · Lia ☁️ DevOps & Cloud ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Self-Hosted WAF: What Happens When You Let It Run for a Month

Week 1: The Scanner Flood Within 24 hours of going live, the WAF started blocking...

How to Install a Free WAF on Docker Ubuntu (Complete Guide)

Dev.to · Lia 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

How to Install a Free WAF on Docker Ubuntu (Complete Guide)

Step-by-step tutorial: install SafeLine WAF on Ubuntu with Docker in under 5 minutes. Includes first login, site setup, rate limiting, geo blocking, and trouble

Best Free Web Application Firewalls Compared (2025)

Dev.to · Lia 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Best Free Web Application Firewalls Compared (2025)

WAF Type Deployment SafeLine Community Self-hosted, reverse proxy Docker, one...

Best Self-Hosted WAFs on GitHub: 5 Tools Compared in 2026

Dev.to · Lia 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Best Self-Hosted WAFs on GitHub: 5 Tools Compared in 2026

GitHub is where WAF projects prove themselves in production. Stars, commits, releases, issue...

Best Self-Hosted WAFs on GitHub: 5 Tools Compared

Dev.to · Lia 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Best Self-Hosted WAFs on GitHub: 5 Tools Compared

GitHub is where WAF projects prove themselves in production. Stars, commits, releases, issue...

SafeLine WAF Behind Cloudflare and Nginx Proxy Manager

Dev.to · Lia 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

SafeLine WAF Behind Cloudflare and Nginx Proxy Manager

A production stack that combines Cloudflare's edge with SafeLine's detection: User → Cloudflare...

SafeLine vs Cloudflare WAF: An Honest, Detailed Comparison

Dev.to · Lia 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

SafeLine vs Cloudflare WAF: An Honest, Detailed Comparison

If you're choosing a web application firewall, you've probably narrowed it down to two very different...

How I Deployed FastAPI to EC2 with HTTPS Using API Gateway

Dev.to · Lia 📣 Digital Marketing & Growth ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago

How I Deployed FastAPI to EC2 with HTTPS Using API Gateway

Intro I wanted to deploy my FastAPI backend on AWS EC2 and get a proper HTTPS URL without...

How to deploy Fast API

Dev.to · Lia ☁️ DevOps & Cloud ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago

How to deploy Fast API

FastAPI + Docker + AWS EC2 Deployment Guide Prerequisites (Local) ...