# Security through design: Creating the improved Firewall experience

By Steven Van · 2025-11-24

Vercel redesigns its Firewall dashboard with a new Overview page, a Traffic tab, and inline alert inspection.

Vercel has redesigned the Firewall UI in the [Vercel](<https://creatorstoolbox.com/tools/vercel>) dashboard, built around requests from users to see active DDoS events, get more detail on what was blocked, and investigate traffic spikes faster.

- A redesigned Overview page acts as a control center, with a traffic chart plus four tables: Alerts (recently mitigated DDoS attacks), Rules (top rule activity by volume), Events (mitigations taken), and Denied IPs (blocked connections by client IP)

- New sidebar navigation splits the experience into Overview, Traffic, Rules, and Audit Log tabs

- The Traffic page adds dedicated feeds for top IPs, JA4 digests, AS names, user agents, request paths, and rules with the most activity, with filtering by mitigation action

- The Rules tab manages WAF custom rules including Bot Protection, Managed Rulesets, and IP Blocking, and the Audit Log now has its own tab

- Clicking an alert or event opens a detailed inspection view directly in the page instead of switching context

The new Firewall experience is available now in the [Vercel Dashboard](<https://vercel.com/blog/security-through-design-creating-the-improved-firewall-experience>), and Vercel is asking for feedback via the Vercel Community.

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