Christian Folini


Using GeoIP information together with ModSecurity

Introduction In my tutorial’s webserver logfile configuration, there is a position reserved for the country code of an IP address. I have never explained how I get the information into the environment variable that is then used to fill said position. There are several other guides around, but I think it’s time to provide my […]


Rule Exclusion Script on Steroids

The ModSecurity / OWASP Core Rule Set tutorials here at netnea.com are visited by over 8,000 times a month. With many of the unique visitors, the auxiliary script modsec-rulereport.rb is a favorite. The tool allows you to generate rule exclusions based on a ModSecurity rule alert message. Today, I’m presenting you a new version of […]


Introducing crs-trigger.py

This is a blog post about a new script, that will execute a request in order trigger an arbitrary Core Rule Set anomaly score. The OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (short CRS) is a scoring rule set with individual rules working together to assess an incoming request and assigning it an anomaly score. An administrator […]