The age of the external perimeter is gone. The modern firewall is a different creature from the one in place before the rise of digital platforms, public cloud, distributed applications, the internet ...

The buzz about Web services has turned to discussions about the added security risks they pose. According to Gartner, Web services is about “moving application integration into firewall-evading ...

Myra Suggs explains what a Web Application Firewall (WAF) is, why your business needs one and how they're different to other ...

Today, application integration is the single biggest challenge facing IT organizations. With business imperatives driving an increasing need for cross-organization integration, this challenge is ...

A web application firewall (WAF) is a critical component of an enterprise security infrastructure, providing a key security layer for web-facing applications and APIs. As web applications mature and ...

Enterprise application delivery vendor Citrix Systems Inc. today announced the acquisition of application security company Teros Inc., with an eye on using that company’s technology to bolster IT ...

You may have heard this term recently and wondered what it meant. When it comes to security, everyone thinks of Firewalls, Proxies, IPS, IDS, Honeypots, VPN devices, email security and even Web ...

This chapter introduces the reader to firewall load-balancing (FWLB) concepts, technology, and designs. We will talk about motivations behind FWLB solutions, different types of firewalls, and how to ...