Edge Security (EdgeSec)

Edge Security (EdgeSec)

Edge Security (EdgeSec) is a security service that protects the edge nodes of Huawei Cloud Content Delivery Network (CDN). It provides anti-DDoS, CC attack protection, and Web Application Firewall (WAF) on edge nodes. If you have purchased Content Delivery Network (CDN) or Whole Site Acceleration (WSA), you can enable EdgeSec for acceleration domain names to safeguard content delivery.

Edge Security (EdgeSec) is a security service that protects the edge nodes of Huawei Cloud Content Delivery Network (CDN). It provides anti-DDoS, CC attack protection, and Web Application Firewall (WAF) on edge nodes. If you have purchased Content Delivery Network (CDN) or Whole Site Acceleration (WSA), you can enable EdgeSec for acceleration domain names to safeguard content delivery.

Why Huawei Cloud EdgeSec?

  • Globally Available Edge Nodes

    EdgeSec is based on Huawei Cloud's over 2,800 global CDN network nodes so you can speed up content distribution and transmission while keeping your services secure.

    EdgeSec is based on Huawei Cloud's over 2,800 global CDN network nodes so you can speed up content distribution and transmission while keeping your services secure.

  • Ultra-large Protection Bandwidth

    EdgeSec can protect over 15 Tbit/s of global anti-DDoS bandwidth, which can easily defend against heavy-traffic DDoS attacks at the network and application layers.

    EdgeSec can protect over 15 Tbit/s of global anti-DDoS bandwidth, which can easily defend against heavy-traffic DDoS attacks at the network and application layers.

  • Comprehensive Protection

    EdgeSec leverages Huawei's years of experience in online security to protect against a variety of cyber attacks, such as DDoS attacks, web attacks, CC attacks, and malicious crawlers.

    EdgeSec leverages Huawei's years of experience in online security to protect against a variety of cyber attacks, such as DDoS attacks, web attacks, CC attacks, and malicious crawlers.

  • Quick Protection Deployment

    You can accelerate domain name service securely in just a few clicks. There is no need to change CDN configurations and domain name resolution.

    You can accelerate domain name service securely in just a few clicks. There is no need to change CDN configurations and domain name resolution.

Features

DDoS mitigation

DDoS mitigation

Comprehensive anti-DDoS protection

EdgeSec protects TCP, UDP, or HTTP traffic with a large bandwidth and starts scrubbing of DDoS traffic in seconds, making it easier for you to safeguard workloads from network-layer DDoS attacks.


Precise traffic scrubbing

Powered by AI-based analysis, EdgeSec features powerful precise protection with many access controls that are based on local real-time session credits, geographical locations, blacklists, whitelists, and fingerprints.

Professional operations team

You get 24x7 protection and service support from a professional operations team.

Web attack protection

Web attack protection

With a comprehensive preset reputation database, EdgeSec detects and blocks common OWASP threats such as malicious scanners, IP addresses, and Trojans.


Comprehensive protection


EdgeSec detects and blocks threats such as SQL injection, XSS, file inclusion, directory traversal attacks, sensitive file access, command and code injection, web shells, and third-party vulnerability exploits.


Rate limiting

Rate limiting

EdgeSec mitigates CC attacks through rate limiting on APIs and CAPTCHA verification.

Customizable return pages

You can customize the content and type of the page returned when a request is blocked.

Website anti-crawler

Website anti-crawler

EdgeSec dynamically analyzes website service models and accurately identifies over 700 types of crawler behavior based on data risk control and bot identification systems.


Anti-crawler protection with feature libraries

EdgeSec precisely blocks web page crawlers with custom scanner and crawler rules.


JavaScript anti-crawler protection

EdgeSec identifies and blocks JavaScript crawling with custom rules.

Application Scenarios

边缘安全网络加速

Application Scenarios

EdgeSec keeps service reliable while accelerating network dynamically and statically. With EdgeSec, malicious traffic never gets to your origin servers. When a user request reaches the edge network, EdgeSec proactively identifies and scrubs DDoS attack traffic, and detects and blocks web, and CC attacks with a WAF engine.

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