Preparing for attacks
A prolonged denial of service (DoS) or brute-force login attack (to name just a few) can bring your web servers to a standstill, if your FortiWeb appliance is not configured for it.
To fight DoS attacks, see
“DoS prevention”.
In the FortiWeb appliance's web UI, you can watch for attacks in two ways:
• Monitor current HTTP traffic on the dashboard. Go to System > Status > Status and examine the attack event history graph in the Policy Summary widget.
• Examine attack history in the traffic log. Go to Logs&Report > Log Access > Attack.
Before attacks occur, use the FortiWeb appliance's rich feature set to configure attack defenses.