How Does a Firewall Protect Your Website?

Your website is constantly being hit by traffic - both legitimate and malicious. In addition to human visitors, there are bot visitors crawling your website regularly.

Many of those bots are legitimate bots that you want to crawl your site - for example, Googlebot crawls your website so it can produce your website in search results related to your website. SiteLock also has bots that hit your website checking for known malware issues so we can report and work with you to address those issues.

In addition to these good bots, there are malicious bots whose entire purpose is to scan your website in order to identify a potential vulnerability to exploit, then dump the malicious payload that the vulnerability allows the bot to exploit.

SiteLock has a massive database of known malware bots that it automatically blocks from accessing your website. This means that even if you do have a vulnerability that the bot could exploit, the firewall will not allow the bot to identify and attack that vulnerability.

In addition to all the built-in security that SiteLock pre-configures, a firewall allows you full control over who is allowed to access your website. For example, if you live in the United States and operate a local bakery website, you can block entire countries from accessing your website. If your website is intended for local visitors, it's a great idea to lock down your website so that visitors from other countries are blocked automatically. This doesn't hurt your business, because you do not have international customers, but it does keep international attackers away from your website!

Firewall Summary & Results Page

The Summary page in your Firewall & CDN product will give an overview on a number of metrics that the firewall tracks.