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 ...

Application layer distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are on the rise, and organizations must protect themselves from this uptick in application layer attacks and from the overall scourge of ...

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 ...

For the last two years, the stock market has been obsessed with hardware. Investors poured trillions of dollars into the ...

There’s a whole group of vendors looking to ease the installation of IP VPNs by supporting application layer technology. Companies such as Neoteris, NetSilica and Netilla Networks (the author of this ...

Layer 7 Technologies', CEO, Paul Rochester, and VP of Engineering/Chief Architect, K. Scott Morrison, stopped by telephonically to introduce their company, its philosophy and bring me up to date on ...

The processing in a network protocol that provides the starting point and purpose of the communications session. The application layer is layer 7 of 7 in the OSI model. For example, email, Web ...

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 ...

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.