US Patent 11991149 System and method for analytics based WAF service configuration

A system and method for configuring a web application firewall (WAF) is provided. The method includes continuously receiving requests related to a first WAF, each request indicative of network traffic directed to a web application protected by the WAF; enriching each received request by associating each event with information from an enrichment source; periodically analyzing the enriched requests; generating at least one network traffic rule based on periodically generated analysis; and configuring at least a second WAF to perform the network traffic rule.