Designing the new Cloudflare Web Application Firewall

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This post details the redesign of the Cloudflare Web Application Firewall (WAF) dashboard experience. It focuses on improving the user journey for enabling the WAF and configuring rules by addressing two key customer job stories: 'quickly turn on the WAF and use the default settings' and 'only configure the rules I'm interested in.' The redesign simplifies the enablement process to a single click, reduces the risk of misconfiguration by making the overall WAF switch and ruleset enablement a unified action, and introduces bulk editing capabilities for rules within a ruleset. It also introduces the concept of a 'Ruleset Action' to apply a single action to all rules within a ruleset and improves the rule browser for selecting and modifying multiple rules simultaneously.