# Layer 7 Dos Attack Prevention

Prophaze WAF got Layer 7 (Application Layer) DDoS prevention . It can detect anomalies from a request , if the request is targeted towards a dynamic or static resource and the hits on  the resource exceeds more than what is expected in a given time period . The request is blocked  at the ingress level.


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