Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Traditional methods of protecting IT networks and data, including firewalls, zero trust and ...

NetScreen Technologies later this year will improve its security products to help customers combat attacks disguised as innocuous traffic that might sneak by traditional firewalls. By incorporating ...

Traffic-management switches are quickly becoming easier to deploy and support, with greater intelligence to repel more sophisticated application attacks While enterprises deploy ever more elaborate ...

The first step any organisation needs to take to protect itself against an application layer attack is to classify the data handled by its applications. This should then flag the ones that have data ...

The technology provides secure remote access to a broad spectrum of applications and network resources Application-layer VPNs are generating lots of attention these days. Proponents cite the ...

Online fraud is a subset of cybercrime that typically takes place at the application layer. Although fraud was commonly associated with scams (for instance, Nigerian fraud), fraudulent transactions, ...

Chances are the recent headlines about high-profile data breaches resulting from web application vulnerabilities have given you a reason to rethink your Layer 7 protection. And if not, you should.

Randy Wood, vice president of federal sales at application delivery networking platforms provider F5 Networks (Nasdaq: FFIV), has said federal information technology leaders should prioritize security ...

According to research, the malicious iframe used in the latest Network Solutions attack pointed to corpadsinc.com which then downloads Adobe exploits onto victims’ machines. The hacks raise an issue ...

Robust application security is necessary to ensure Web site availability and to protect sensitive customer and corporate data and application-enabled revenue. However, there’s growing confusion about ...