Yandex Smart Web Security overview

Yandex Smart Web Security is a service for protection against DDoS attacks and bots at application level L7 of the OSI model.

You can connect the service to Yandex Application Load Balancer virtual hosts.

In a nutshell, the service checks the HTTP requests sent to the protected resource via the virtual host of the L7 load balancer against the rules configured in the security profile. Depending on the results of the check, the requests are routed to the virtual host, blocked, or sent to Yandex SmartCaptcha for additional verification.

To protect your web apps from external threats, Smart Web Security also implements a Web Application Firewall (WAF).

Monitor and limit web app loads with the help of Advanced Rate Limiter (ARL).

Smart Web Security logs are sent to Yandex Cloud Logging.

Smart Web Security metrics are sent to Yandex Monitoring.

Smart Web Security audit logs are sent to Yandex Audit Trails.