Yandex Smart Web Security overview
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Updated at April 8, 2024
Yandex Smart Web Security is a service for protection against DDoS attacks and bots at application level L7 of the OSI model
You can connect the service to Yandex Application Load Balancer virtual hosts.
In a nutshell, the service checks whether HTTP requests sent to the protected resource via the L7 load balancer's virtual host comply with the rules set in the security profile. Depending on the check results, the requests are routed to the virtual host, denied, or sent to Yandex SmartCaptcha for additional verification.
Smart Web Security logs are sent to Yandex Cloud Logging.
Smart Web Security metrics are sent to Yandex Monitoring.
Smart Web Security audit logs are sent to Yandex Audit Trails.