Haltdos Community WAF¶

In this article

• Haltdos Community WAF. Main Features
• Deployment Features*
• Getting Started After Deploying Haltdos Community WAF
• Authorization and License Activation
• Haltdos Community WAF Welcome Screen
• Changing Credentials

Haltdos Community WAF. Main Features¶

• Management via GUI - Implemented is a web-oriented administrative interface (Admin UI) with role-based access control (RBAC).
• Incident Management and Audit - A unified dashboard with event aggregation by classification.
• Geoblocking - Implementation of access policies based on geo-IP databases (MaxMind DB or equivalents), allowing/denying traffic.
• Bot Traffic Management - Detection of automated clients.
• Built-in Signatures - Comes with Core Rule Set (CRS) comparable to OWASP ModSecurity CRS v3.3+.
• Custom Rules - Support for creating custom policies via a visual rules editor.
• Integrated Load Balancing - Built-in reverse proxy with L7 routing.

Deployment Features¶

• Installation possible on Ubuntu 22.04;
• Installation time is 15-20 minutes including OS;

For Haltdos Community WAF to function correctly, the following minimal system resources are required:

• Processor: minimum of 2 CPU cores;
• RAM: minimum of 2 GB;
• Disk Space: recommended at least 60 GB SSD/HDD:

Getting Started After Deploying Haltdos Community WAF¶

After payment, a notification email will be sent to your registered email address indicating that the server is ready for use. It will include the VPS IP address and login credentials for connection. Our company's clients manage their equipment via the server management panel and API — Invapi.

Login data can be found in the Info >> Tags tab of the server management panel or in the sent email:

• Link for accessing Haltdos Community WAF via web interface: in the webpanel tag.

Authorization and License Activation¶

After successfully logging into the control panel, you need to create a first user and activate the license.

1. Fill out the registration information form:

• Full name - employee's name
• Organization - organization
• Country - country
• Email - email address
• Designation - location

• Phone number - phone number

  Note

  Be careful when filling out the Email field. After registration, an activation code will be sent to this email; access to the panel will be unavailable with incorrect entry.

After completing all fields, click Next

1. Enter information for creating a user:

• Username - username
• Password - password
• Confirm password - confirm password

After filling out all fields, click Next

1. In the opened form, enter the Activation code sent to your registered email:

Click Complete Registration

1. In the opened window, enter details of the user created during registration:

   

Haltdos Community WAF Welcome Screen¶

After successful login, you will be taken to the Haltdos Community WAF welcome screen providing an overview of the security system's status:

Key elements of the main menu include:

• WAF — displays operation parameters and allows applying necessary settings for Web Application Firewall (WAF) - application-level firewall. In this menu, you can set up SSL parameters, geolocation, bot protection, and establish the order of standard and custom rule applications.

• Incidents — shows incident statistics with a filter option by type of incident.

• SSL Certificates — displays SSL certificate usage statistics. This menu also organizes the process for adding certificates.

• Account — contains account parameter information: license details, user profile. In this menu, you can also change the user's password.

Changing Credentials¶

1. In the main menu, select Account

   

2. Navigate to the Change password section:

   

3. Perform the following actions:

   • Enter your current password in the Current password field;
   • Enter a new password in the New password field, meeting security requirements:
   • At least 8 characters;
   • At least one uppercase letter;
   • At least one lowercase letter;
   • At least one digit;
   • At least one special character.
   • Re-enter the new password in the Confirm password field.

4. Click on Change password to save changes.

Order Haltdos via API¶

To install this software using the API, follow these instructions