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Defense in Depth: Security Layers

Build a multi-layered security architecture with WAF, firewall, encryption, and rate limiting.

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Overview

Build a multi-layered security architecture with WAF, firewall, encryption, and rate limiting.

Security is not one thing - it's layers.

You will build 6 architecture steps that model production dependencies.

You will run 1 failure experiment to observe bottlenecks and recovery behavior.

Success target: Multiple security layers active, attacks blocked at edge, data encrypted.

Learning Objectives

  • Understand defense-in-depth security architecture
  • Know the roles of firewall, WAF, rate limiter, and encryption
  • Learned why no single security layer is sufficient
  • Experienced the impact of disabling security layers

Prerequisites

  • Topic Hub: defense in depth
  • Chapter 30: Security & Authentication
  • Prior Lab: API Gateway & Authentication

Experiments

  1. Disable WAF block mode to see what happens with attacks

Failure Modes to Trigger

  • Trigger: Disable WAF block mode to see what happens with attacks

    Observe: Monitor mode only logs attacks but doesn't block them. SQL injection, XSS, and other attacks pass through to your application. You can see the attacks in logs but they're hitting your servers.

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