The Check Point software headed off the application-layer attacks that the consultant tried through Port 80 before they got to the server, says Andrew Bagrin, director of security and network ...

Two of the most advanced application-layer firewalls today are Check Point's FireWall-1 and Microsoft's ISA Server. Take a good look at one or both of them (evaluation versions of both are available).

Because application firewalls are so closely tuned to the specific application they are protecting, they are usually able to offer not only an extra layer of user authentication, but traffic ...

Application layer firewalls acts as proxies -- they don't allow traffic to pass between the two networks, but pretend to be applications when accessed from outside the protected network.

When it comes to network security, iptables is a robust and feature-full firewall. It is time to take back the Internet from wrongdoers with strong inline application layer inspection with Snort ...

This type of hybrid DDoS protection — cloud-based network-layer defense combined with on-premise application-layer defense — can be ineffective when facing massive HTTP floods like the 8.7Gbps ...

Security at the application layer is certainly in line with OWASP (Open Worldwide Application Security Project) guidelines, which provide developers with a list of requirements for secure ...

NetScreen’s new firewall also follows a trend of VPN vendors toward supporting application security (see graphic, below). “Network-layer security only takes you so far.

Secure has completed the acquisition of Network Associates' Gauntlet firewall and VPN business. The purchase price was not disclosed. Tim McGurran, president and COO of Secure, said the San Jose ...