Securing Against Attacks: How WAF Rate Limiting Works
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, June 4th, 2025
Rate limiting plays a major role in application security, especially when it is about defending web applications from malicious bot attacks, credential stuffing, brute force attacks and excessive API calls.
Rate limiting security ensures that systems function properly without overwhelming them. It controls the number of requests a client or a specific IP address can send over a specified time period.
In this article, we will learn what rate limiting is and how WAF rate limiting acts as the first layer of defence to limit network traffic, avoid service disruption and keep access maintained for legitimate users.