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Cloudflare Application Profiles enforce policies from HTTP request structure
Application Profiles analyze HTTP request structure and format to identify deviations and enforce a positive security policy. The approach gives security teams another way to reduce attack surface beyond relying only on patching and attack signatures.
- What
- Application Profiles learn the expected structure of HTTP requests and help enforce positive security policies for web applications.
- How
- Schema Profiles learn from observed traffic; a validation layer checks live requests and adds conformity metadata for Security Analytics or Security Rules.
- Why it matters
- Engineers can use learned request structure to identify deviations and block non-conforming traffic without relying only on known attack signatures.
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