Security Basics: Re: Application Firewall

[Kyu Kwak <kyukwak () yahoo com>]

Imperva
Cisco ACE 




----- Original Message ----
> From: ॐ aditya mukadam ॐ <aditya.mukadam () gmail com>
> To: ams.sec () gmail com; security-basics () securityfocus com
> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 9:56:20 AM
> Subject: Re: Application Firewall
>
> Application level firewalls are actually not firewalls but can be
> called as intelligent proxies. Cisco ASA is a stateful firewall.
>
> I know BlueCoat proxy which would categorize as application level firewall.
>
> Thanks,
> Aditya Govind Mukadam
>
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 7:44 PM,  wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Can anyone please list out some name of application level firewalls. Would 
> Cisco ASA qualify as a application firewall? I have heard it needs certain 
> addons to provide application screening functionality. Thanks a zillion.
> > Ams