WAPP: Safe Learning of Positive Security WAF Policies from Live Traffic
Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) mainly rely on signatures to detect known attacks, which can leave gaps against modified or previously unseen payloads. Positive security provides a complementary approach by learning legitimate traffic and blocking inputs that fall outside the learned profile. However, learning directly from live traffic can be unsafe when malicious requests contaminate the training data. This paper presents the Whitelisting Autonomous Policy Producer (WAPP), a framework that combines trust filtering, deterministic rule synthesis, confidence scoring, and validation before enforcement. WAPP is evaluated on three controlled applications using a live Coraza and OWASP Core Ru...
| Authors | Heba Osama, Zeyad Ahmed, Mohamed Amgad et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CR |
| Published | 6 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 6 September 2026 |
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