Common use cases for custom rules
The following common use cases illustrate how to secure web traffic to your sites and applications with custom rules:
- Allow traffic from IP addresses in allowlist only
- Allow traffic from search engine bots
- Allow traffic from specific countries only
- Block Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover requests
- Block requests by Threat Score
- Block traffic from specific countries
- Challenge bad bots
- Configure token authentication
- Exempt partners from Hotlink Protection
- Require a specific cookie
- Require known IP addresses in site admin area
- Require specific HTTP headers
- Require specific HTTP ports
- Stop R-U-Dead-Yet? (R.U.D.Y.) attacks
- Update custom rules for customers or partners