Network firewalls were created as the primary perimeter defense for most organizations, but since its creation the technology has spawned many iterations: proxy, stateful, Web app, next-generation ...

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, analyzing ...

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 ...

A web application firewall (WAF) is needed to protect web applications and APIs from cyber threats like SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and other malicious attacks. With cyberattacks on web ...

To keep tabs on the emerging Web application firewall market, we recently reviewed two of the appliance-oriented offerings in this market – Teros Secure Application Gateway 100SSL Version 3.1 and ...

Barracuda Networks announced its cloud-delivered Web Application Firewall (WAF) service on May 16, providing organizations with a new approach to managing and deploying application security. The ...

Despite the relative maturity of the Web, it is still the most hostile environment imaginable. Given the vast array of threats that exist online, including distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks ...

John Breeden II is an award-winning reviewer and public speaker with 20 years of experience covering technology. Government agencies have always been in the crosshairs of cyberattackers. In fact, ...

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 (PCI DSS, or PCI), ...

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 ...