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description: Protect your web application from attacks, bots, and abuse.
title: Secure your application
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# Secure your application

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Web applications face threats at every layer: unencrypted traffic, injection attacks, DDoS floods, credential stuffing bots, and malicious third-party scripts. Cloudflare provides defense in depth from automatic SSL/TLS encryption through application security, DDoS protection, bot scoring, and client-side script monitoring.

## Solutions

### SSL/TLS

Encrypt all traffic with free, automatic SSL certificates. [Learn more about SSL/TLS](https://4f1c5cd2.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/ssl/).

* **Automatic HTTPS** \- Free Universal SSL certificates provisioned and renewed automatically

### Application security

Get automatic protection from vulnerabilities and create your own custom rules. [Learn more about Application security](https://4f1c5cd2.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/waf/).

* **Attack protection** \- Application security's managed rulesets block SQL injection, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), and Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Top 10 vulnerabilities

### DDoS protection

Automatic mitigation of volumetric and application-layer DDoS attacks. [Learn more about DDoS protection](https://4f1c5cd2.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/ddos-protection/).

* **DDoS mitigation** \- Always-on layer 3/4 and layer 7 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection included at no extra cost

### Bot security

Machine learning powered bot detection with granular control over bot traffic. [Learn more about Bot security](https://4f1c5cd2.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/bots/).

* **Bot defense** \- Stop credential stuffing and content scraping with ML-powered bot scoring

### Turnstile

Privacy-preserving CAPTCHA alternative for forms and user interactions. [Learn more about Turnstile](https://4f1c5cd2.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/turnstile/).

* **Form protection** \- Privacy-preserving CAPTCHA alternative for login and signup forms

### Client-side security

Monitor and control third-party scripts and outbound connections on your pages. [Learn more about Client-side security](https://4f1c5cd2.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/client-side-security/).

* **Script security** \- Detect and block malicious third-party JavaScript injections

## Get started

1. [Enable SSL/TLS](https://4f1c5cd2.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/ssl/get-started/)
2. [Configure Application Security managed rules](https://4f1c5cd2.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/waf/managed-rules/deploy-zone-dashboard/)
3. [Add Turnstile to forms](https://4f1c5cd2.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/turnstile/get-started/)

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