Show HN: Building a Self-Evolving WAF Engine via Inductive Logic Programming

Category: security

Tags: prolog, waf, cybersecurity, logic-programming, threat-detection

Score: 4.0/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 4, Documentation: 4, Utility: 3)

Aethel-Core is a Prolog-based WAF engine that uses n-gram tokenization and logic programming for threat detection, with claims of self-evolving rules and LLM dataset generation. While the Prolog approach is a novel combination, the project suffers from unverifiable metrics, a partially proprietary model, and a deployment layer that is still under development.

Target audience: security engineers, backend devs, devops

Repository: https://prologwaf.site/ · Prolog · MIT · 8 stars

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