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 ...

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 ...

A Web Application Firewall (WAF) is probably one of the most popular preventive and/or detective security controls for web applications today. Garter’s Magic Quadrant (MQ) 2015 for Web Application ...

Configuration oversights can still be leveraged in attacks - despite costly WAFs protecting the infrastructure.

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 ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. During tests of Web application firewalls, eWEEK Labs ...

A firewall is a device that protects you from a possibly hostile network by monitoring and restricting TCP/IP communications based on the policies that you set. The device is traditionally dedicated ...

This book excerpt is from Chapter 2 of the second edition of Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker . This chapter, titled “A Security Review of Protocols: Lower Layers,” examines ...