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Talk Intermediate

{./Anubis} Will Judge [You*]

Approved
Session Description

Hello {Visitor} are you amazeeed or confused about the Title of this talk ...{Btw this talk is about a firewall , It is not a traditional (WAF) .{

Anubis is a Web AI firewall utility <The general purpose of anubis is to detect and block the automated bots or Ai-driven web crawler from scarping your website or prevent from huge amount of traffic to your website />

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// sounds cool right !
Yo ! i have a question are you tired !! of clicking the captcha (I'm not a robot) ------> This is one of the toughest pain point for a Humans ]]]]] =======> But...I know a way how to solve that issue by using Anubis || because anubis {using a concept called (hashcash - proof of Work) }or a cryptographic puzzle to find does the Client(browser or bot) is legit user or not . so the user no need to solve the captcha ,The captcha will be solved by the browser . # i know what you are thinking how a browser solves the captcha ! if you want to know about join us at ChennaiFOSS I will be roaming over there . (see you there fellas)
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So let's play around with the blocking the bot's :).

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Btw !Thank you for reading till the End <yo you have more patient and you are moreee Focused !}

Key Takeaways

here i will catch up the formal attire

  1. Anubis is a truly open source web Ai firewall , There is no vendor lock in.

  2. Anubis operates mostly in the background, minimizing user disruption compared to traditional CAPTCHAs and enabling a smoother browsing experience.

  3. Widely adopted by open source projects and organizations, Anubis helps reduce unwanted bot traffic, lower hosting costs, and improve web service reliability

  4. Anubis integrates smoothly with Kubernetes as a containerized microservice, allowing organizations to deploy it alongside other containerized applications to protect services using scalable, platform-agnostic configurations and easily enable or disable firewall protection per application.

  5. Use cases include blocking unauthorized data scraping, securing APIs and web services, reducing operational costs from bot traffic, and enabling full governance over firewall behavior without reliance on proprietary vendors

References

Session Categories

Technology architecture
Engineering practice - productivity, debugging
Introducing a FOSS project or a new version of a popular project
Knowledge Commons (Open Hardware, Open Science, Open Data etc.)

Speakers

Shane Cardoz M
Open source DEV || Foss Forever ||Student | Freebsd || Flox || Jeppiaar University

Hello there! I’m Shane Cardoz — a tech enthusiast who loves to tinker, break, and build things back better. I enjoy exploring different areas of technology, from cybersecurity and systems programming to DevOps and embedded projects. I absolutely love FreeBSD and open-source systems, and I’m currently setting up my own homelab to dive deeper into Kubernetes, Docker, and server management.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/shane-cardoz-m/
Shane Cardoz M

Reviews

Reviewer #1 Approved

Anubis is an incredibly valuable project but i personally only see a lightning talk based on the proposal and not a full talk.

Reviewer #2 Not Sure