Looking to protect sites running in its public cloud from malicious attacks, Microsoft this week released its new Web Application Firewall (WAF) option for its Azure Application Gateway and HTTP ...

Four basic types of firewall protection exist--network level, circuit level, application-level and stateful multilayer. Each type has advantages and disadvantages, ranging from ease of implementation ...

The exposure of the application layer to the outside world makes it a prime target for a cyber attack. The application layer – layer 7 of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) communications model – ...

Security researchers have recently observed a large application-layer distributed denial-of-service attack using a new technique that could foil DDoS defenses and be a sign of things to come for Web ...

Im running WinXP, and every once and awhile "Application Layer Gateway Service" will try to connect to the internet. My firewall then stops this. What I want to know is what this is, and why it is ...

Whether it's for firewalls or Virtual Private Networks, we're seeing an increasing emphasis on VoIP Security. The point was hammered home today by a look at the Security Appliances winner in ...

Layer 7 Technologies upgraded the operating system of its XML network appliances, adding features that let users apply consistent security policies across clusters of devices. Layer 7 Technologies ...