How Cloudflare can help stop malware before it reaches your app

Cloudflare WAF Content Scanning is an advanced feature designed for detecting malicious file uploads within a web application's traffic. The scanning process involves identifying and parsing different content types, including multipart/form-data or JSON, to support multiple content objects per request. This feature enhances visibility into your application traffic and helps you detect and mitigate potential security risks associated with malicious file uploads. By separating detection from mitigation, it allows for more flexible deployment options, such as using the scanned data in custom rules for blocking specific types of requests or bots that attempt to upload malicious files.