# Application Security

Learn more about the tools Cloudflare offers to protect your website against malicious traffic and bad actors.

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## Account security

Make sure your account's security basics are configured properly.

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## Default traffic security

As soon as you onboard your domain to Cloudflare, you are automatically protected. This module reviews what those protections are and why they are critical.

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## Web Application Firewall

Cloudflare's Web Application Firewall (WAF) is used to protect websites from a wide variety of attack vectors. It analyzes characteristics from each request and takes action based on your domain configuration. In the next module, we will review Rate Limiting which is another product used to protect against potentially more sophisticated volumetric attacks.

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## Rate Limiting

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## Lists

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## Security Center

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