{"id":58585,"date":"2020-12-08T10:53:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T16:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cpanel.com\/?p=58585"},"modified":"2020-12-08T10:53:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T16:53:09","slug":"how-to-install-and-configure-modsecurity-in-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devel.www.cpanel.net\/blog\/tips-and-tricks\/how-to-install-and-configure-modsecurity-in-cpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Install and Configure ModSecurity™ In cPanel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Automated attack bots bombard web apps with malicious requests as soon they go online. Attackers target every website and ecommerce store eventually, hoping to find a vulnerability they can exploit to inject code, misuse resources, or steal data. In 2019, bad bots generated a quarter of all web traffic<\/a>. cPanel & WHM includes many features that help web hosts and site administrators to repel bad bots, including the ModSecurity web application firewall (WAF).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

cPanel & WHM has supported ModSecurity 2 for many years, and in cPanel 92, we introduced support for ModSecurity 3. It should be emphasized that ModSecurity 3 support is experimental, but it offers a couple of significant advantages:<\/p>\n\n\n\n