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 ...

In some cases, applications can be based upon industry-accepted standards, as shown in Figure 10-27. For example, for devices that need to be able to connect to other devices to transfer data or to ...

Listen carefully. The top level of the OSI Reference Model and the IETF protocol stack is the application layer. The application layer, however, doesn’t do applications. It provides services such as ...

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” ...

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 ...

Call it the un-SDN, if you will. Cisco’s new Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI) initiative promises to tackle networking problems only partially addressed by current software-defined networking.