Tag: loadbalancer

Logging requests to ELB endpoints is a helpful way of detecting and investigating potential attacks, malicious activity, or misuse of backend resources. Logs can be sent to S3 and processed for further analysis.

Logging requests to ELB endpoints is a helpful way of detecting and investigating potential attacks, malicious activity, or misuse of backend resources. Logs can be sent to S3 and processed for further analysis.

HTTP Desync attacks are a category of attacks on a system of proxies and load balancers when multiple devices in the chain parse parts of the HTTP request differently, resulting in tampering of legitimate HTTP sessions and bypassing application level security. AWS offers protection against these attacks in their Load Balancer service that prevents exploitation.