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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A hot new trend in firewalls is the application-layer firewall, sometimes called an application shield. Although the attack sequences we used in this roundup could be described as “application layer” ...

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 ...