It isn’t a pleasant way of going about things, but in order to begin to understand the importance of application layer security, you need to consider the worst case scenario. This scenario would be ...

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” ...

Organizations are quickly realizing there's no longer perimeter security versus application security—all security is application security. The application is the layer responsible for executing the ...

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 ...

The number of DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks that target weak spots in Web applications in addition to network services has risen during the past year and attackers are using ...

Application layer attacks have been with us since the first internet-facing applications. However, a recent survey showed 89% of respondents admitted to an application attack in the past year.

In a typical (well-designed) MVC Web app, the database is not aware of the model code, the model code is not aware of the controller code, and the controller code is not aware of the view code. (I ...

Hudson, Mass.—June 15, 2011—Top Layer Security, a leading global provider of Network Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), today announced its DDoS Defense System (DDS), a new, industry-first product ...

Lightbend Inc. is making it easier for developers to build cloud-native applications with the launch today of Kalix, a new platform-as-a-service that serves as a unifying application layer in concert ...