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 ...

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 ...

Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) act as an additional layer of security, impeding any malicious traffic from reaching your company’s resources. They offer a thorough level of protection ...

Web application vulnerabilities put critical business applications and back-end databases at risk from attack, theft and fraud. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, which recognizes ...

The threat of the day is the application attack, which sneaks through your firewall and into your Web applications. And yes, some of these attacks like to dine on tasty customer data.

A final thought, I'm not sure if you are talking about more traditional firewalls with basic packet inspection, or 'layer 7' or application/web firewalls. You mention deep packet inspection but ...

The DSS requirement 11.3.2, states companies must conduct annual “application-layer penetration tests” and requirement 6.6 states that organizations need to “ensure all web-facing ...

The use of firewalls provides an extra layer of protection that’s useful for access control. The application of policy-based access allows the customization of access based on business needs.

The NetScaler is an extremely capable load balancer, an application-layer firewall, and an application accelerator. In fact, it has more features and functionality than can be covered in a review.