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Application Firewall
For years, the prevailing wisdom among IT professionals was that firewalls were the panacea of security. Firewalls provide excellent network protection, but hackers are now exploiting openings that are left open for legitimate purposes for customers, vendors and other business partners.
These web applications, often times e-commerce solutions, can be manipulated by hackers to expose confidential information, run denial-of-service attacks, and gain access to any number of databases. This malicious activity is not detectable by traditional firewalls, intrusion-detection or encryption, and both indiscriminate and targeted attacks appear the same as benevolent activity.
There are several things admins can do to protect against web application attacks, including writing secure code, applying server patches, avoiding providing detailed error messages, and most importantly, installing a web application firewall.
Advanced Web Application Protection
A web application firewall complements existing perimeter defenses by focusing attention on the environment behind the traditional firewall. The Barrier Group’s technology is on the cutting edge of security, providing advanced protection against SQL injections, buffer overruns, cookie poisoning, cross-site scripting and other malicious activity.
Barrier1’s built-in application firewall provides critical features for system administrators, including:
- Protects web application business logic, including vulnerable user code. Automatically shields operating systems and middleware vulnerabilities.
- “Set and Forget” control operates invisibly with autonomic technology that maps application business logic at installation and updates Intended Use Guidelines™ (server policy) in real-time.
- Instant regulatory compliance; Barrier1 adds web application security that exceeds regulatory compliance guidelines for GLBA, HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley.
- Multi-platform support, including Red Hat and SUSE Linux®, Solaris, Windows® and other UNIX variants.
- Electronic scalability — which is a function of processor speed and/or memory size — fits SMB and Fortune 1000 environments alike.
The Barrier1 application firewall provides absolute website protection, eliminates administrative liability risk, keeps websites in production, reduces patch and repair costs, and speeds new functional code availability and implementation. It is an essential piece of security for any business running web applications.
