diff --git a/apache2/apache2_config.c b/apache2/apache2_config.c
index ca21893..26870a2 100644
--- a/apache2/apache2_config.c
+++ b/apache2/apache2_config.c
@@ -2690,6 +2690,22 @@ static const char *cmd_remote_rules(cmd_parms *cmd, void *_dcfg, const char *p1,
     return NULL;
 }
 
+static const char *cmd_remote_timeout(cmd_parms *cmd, void *_dcfg, const char *p1)
+{
+    directory_config *dcfg = (directory_config *)_dcfg;
+    long int timeout;
+
+    if (dcfg == NULL) return NULL;
+
+    timeout = strtol(p1, NULL, 10);
+    if ((timeout == LONG_MAX)||(timeout == LONG_MIN)||(timeout < 0)) {
+        return apr_psprintf(cmd->pool, "ModSecurity: Invalid value for SecRemoteTimeout: %s", p1);
+    }
+
+    remote_rules_timeout = timeout;
+
+    return NULL;
+}
 
 static const char *cmd_status_engine(cmd_parms *cmd, void *_dcfg, const char *p1)
 {
@@ -4215,6 +4231,14 @@ const command_rec module_directives[] = {
         "Abort or Warn"
     ),
 
+    AP_INIT_TAKE1 (
+        "SecRemoteTimeout",
+        cmd_remote_timeout,
+        NULL,
+        CMD_SCOPE_ANY,
+        "timeout in seconds"
+    ),
+
 
     AP_INIT_TAKE1 (
         "SecXmlExternalEntity",
diff --git a/apache2/mod_security2.c b/apache2/mod_security2.c
index 1850191..1df6f0b 100644
--- a/apache2/mod_security2.c
+++ b/apache2/mod_security2.c
@@ -77,6 +77,8 @@ msc_remote_rules_server DSOLOCAL *remote_rules_server = NULL;
 #endif
 int DSOLOCAL remote_rules_fail_action = REMOTE_RULES_ABORT_ON_FAIL;
 char DSOLOCAL *remote_rules_fail_message = NULL;
+unsigned long int DSOLOCAL remote_rules_timeout = NOT_SET;
+
 
 int DSOLOCAL status_engine_state = STATUS_ENGINE_DISABLED;
 
diff --git a/apache2/modsecurity.h b/apache2/modsecurity.h
index d1aa1d8..134ed86 100644
--- a/apache2/modsecurity.h
+++ b/apache2/modsecurity.h
@@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ extern DSOLOCAL msc_remote_rules_server *remote_rules_server;
 #endif
 extern DSOLOCAL int remote_rules_fail_action;
 extern DSOLOCAL char *remote_rules_fail_message;
+extern DSOLOCAL unsigned long int remote_rules_timeout;
 
 extern DSOLOCAL int status_engine_state;
 
diff --git a/apache2/msc_remote_rules.c b/apache2/msc_remote_rules.c
index 37b8864..12890a2 100644
--- a/apache2/msc_remote_rules.c
+++ b/apache2/msc_remote_rules.c
@@ -358,6 +358,11 @@ int msc_remote_download_content(apr_pool_t *mp, const char *uri, const char *key
         /* We want Curl to return error in case there is an HTTP error code */
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1);
 
+        /* In case we want different timeout than a default one */
+        if (remote_rules_timeout != NOT_SET){
+            curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, remote_rules_timeout);
+        }
+
         res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
 
         if (res != CURLE_OK)