{"id":226013,"date":"2017-08-24T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=226013"},"modified":"2017-08-24T19:02:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T17:02:53","slug":"google-app-engine-gets-firewall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/226013-google-app-engine-gets-firewall.html","title":{"rendered":"Google App Engine gets firewall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google App Engine now offers a fully-featured firewall, with developers advised to use it as their primary way to combat denial of service attacks, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/08\/24\/googles-app-engine-gets-a-firewall\/\">TechCrunch reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The firewall lets developers control access to their App Engine apps through a set of rules that can allow or deny requests from specified IP address ranges.<\/p>\n<p>Developers may create a firewall to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Only allow traffic from within a specific network.<\/li>\n<li>Only allow traffic from a specific service.<\/li>\n<li>Block abusive IP addresses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This lets you ensure that only a certain range of IP addresses can access your app,\u00a0that all traffic to your App Engine app is proxied through a specific service, or block traffic to your app from certain IP addresses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can blacklist IP addresses or subnets so that requests routed from those addresses and subnets are denied before it reaches your App Engine app,&#8221; said Google.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/225839-google-search-adds-medical-quiz-to-help-diagnose-depression.html\">Google search adds medical quiz to help diagnose depression<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google App Engine now offers a fully-featured firewall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":137094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[167,12373],"class_list":["post-226013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-google","tag-google-app-engine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226013"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226063,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226013\/revisions\/226063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}