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Zen by Aikido
Getting Started with Zen

Getting Started with Zen

Introduction

Zen by Aikido is a powerful Application Firewall that embeds directly into your code to protect your applications against attacks.

It protects your apps by preventing user input containing dangerous strings, which usually allow for injection and path traversal attacks. Zen protects your apps from common attacks by:

  • ✨ Preventing dangerous user input that enables injection and path traversal

  • 🛡️ Automatically blocking critical injection attacks

  • 🚦 Rate limiting routes and users

  • 🤖 Blocking malicious traffic (bots, TOR, known attackers)

  • 🌍 Controlling access by country

  • 🔍 Monitoring outbound traffic

Zen by Aikido operates autonomously on the same server as your app to secure your app like a classic web application firewall (WAF), but without the infrastructure or cost.

Languages

  • Supported:

    • Node.js

    • Python

    • PHP

    • Java

    • .NET Core and Framework

  • In Beta:

    • Ruby

How to install

We do not send any data back to the cloud to do security checks. The token is only used to communicate when attacks are detected to show in the dashboard.

Follow the setup instructions in the Aikido app and check out our docs.

Functionality Support Matrix

SQLi Protection

NoSQLi Protection

Path Traversal

Shell Injection

SSRF Protection

Rate Limiting by IP

Rate Limiting by User

Block Users

Java

✅

❌

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Node.js

Hono

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Hapi

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Next.js

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

❌

❌

Express

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Google Cloud Functions

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

❌

❌

❌

Google Cloud Pub/Sub

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

❌

❌

❌

Lambda

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

❌

❌

❌

Micro

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

❌

❌

PHP

✅

❌

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Python

Django

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Flask

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

gUnicorn

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Quart

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Scarlette

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Ruby

✅

❌

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅