Google Cloud Armor

Google Cloud Armor is Google's enterprise edge network security solution providing DDOS protection, WAF rule enforcement, and adaptive manageability at scale. Cloud Armor has extended the preconfigured WAF rule sets to mitigate against the OWASP Top 10 web application security vulnerabilities. Cloud Armor gives you enterprise-grade defense, whether your application is deployed on Google Cloud, on-premises, or in a multi-cloud architecture.

Key features Adaptive protection Automatically detect and help mitigate high volume Layer 7 DDoS attacks with an ML system trained locally on your applications.

Support for hybrid and multicloud deployments Help defend applications from DDoS or web attacks and enforce Layer 7 security policies whether your application is deployed on Google Cloud or in a hybrid or multicloud architecture.

Pre-configured WAF rules Out-of-the-box rules based on industry standards to mitigate against common web-application vulnerabilities and help provide protection from the OWASP Top 10. Learn more in our WAF rules guide.

Bot management Provides automated protection for your apps from bots and helps stop fraud in line and at the edge through native integration with reCAPTCHA Enterprise.

Rate limiting Rate-based rules help you protect your applications from a large volume of requests that flood your instances and block access for legitimate users.