"ModSecurity is an Apache module that provides intrusion detection and prevention for web applications." It's not just for Debian and any Apache server can use this apache module. The goals of this module is to help protect web applications from known and unknown attacks, such as SQL injection attacks, cross-site scripting, path traversal attacks, etc. It's a very useful tool because web server are very visible to the outside world. Why not take a look at this module? It's easy to install with the help of this article.

This article shows how to install and configure ModSecurity (version 2) for use with Apache2 on a Debian Etch system. ModSecurity is an Apache module that provides intrusion detection and prevention for web applications. It aims at shielding web applications from known and unknown attacks, such as SQL injection attacks, cross-site scripting, path traversal attacks, etc.

I want to say first that this is not the only way of setting up such a system. There are many ways of achieving this goal but this is the way I take. I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

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