How to secure Nginx with ModSecurity

In this video, we will take a look at how to secure Nginx with ModSecurity. ModSecurity is a free and open-source web application firewall for apache, it started out as an apache module but has grown into a fully-fledged web application firewall. It works by inspecting requests sent to the webserver in real-time against a predefined ruleset. ModSecurity prevents typical web application attacks like XSS, SQL Injection. It does this by actively monitoring and logging requests being sent to the webserver.