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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Recent advances in defenses that target malicious network traffic have made it possible to analyze that traffic in real time for potential threats. These techniques enable visibility throughout the ...

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 ...

FineGround this week announced its Enterprise Application Delivery Suite, which speeds up and monitors the interaction of enterprise Web applications with remote users over a WAN or the Internet. It ...

The average computer system left unprotected on the Internet will come under attack within 20 minutes after going online, according to the SANS Institute, a computer security watchdog. With that in ...

The humble firewall has come a long way since the packet-filtering days of yore. The first firewalls were developed by the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) back in the late 1980s. These early ...