{"id":30557,"date":"2020-04-22T10:30:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T08:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/?p=30557"},"modified":"2026-01-07T08:40:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T06:40:36","slug":"modsecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/website\/modsecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"What is ModSecurity?"},"content":{"rendered":"

ModSecurity is a web application firewall that monitors traffic to your website for malicious activity<\/span>. ModSecurity is active on all our Web Hosting packages and our Managed Servers. <\/span>ModSecurity offers an additional <\/span>layer<\/span> of protection to your website by monitoring all your traffic and blocking the most malicious activity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to access your ModSecurity logs<\/strong> so that you can see what ModSecurity has blocked. While interpreting these logs is fairly technical, our Support team is always happy to <\/span>help<\/span><\/a>. To view these logs, follow the steps in our guide<\/a>. The ModSecurity logs will be labeled so you will know which ones to look out for<\/span><\/p>\n

While <\/span>ModSecurity<\/span> offers moderate security and will detect the most commonly used attacks, if you\u2019re looking <\/span>for a commercial web application firewall with <\/span>expert detection levels<\/b>, we\u2019d recommend <\/span>Cloudbric WAF.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false,"plain":"ModSecurity is a web application firewall that monitors traffic to your website for malicious activity<\/span>. ModSecurity is active on all our Web Hosting packages and our Managed Servers. <\/span>ModSecurity offers an additional <\/span>layer<\/span> of protection to your website by monitoring all your traffic and blocking the most malicious activity.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nIt\u2019s easy to access your ModSecurity logs<\/strong> so that you can see what ModSecurity has blocked. While interpreting these logs is fairly technical, our Support team is always happy to <\/span>help<\/span><\/a>. To view these logs, follow the steps in our guide<\/a>. The ModSecurity logs will be labeled so you will know which ones to look out for<\/span>\r\n\r\nWhile <\/span>ModSecurity<\/span> offers moderate security and will detect the most commonly used attacks, if you\u2019re looking <\/span>for a commercial web application firewall with <\/span>expert detection levels<\/b>, we\u2019d recommend <\/span>Cloudbric WAF.<\/span><\/a>\r\n\r\n "},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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