Security Basics: RE: Application Firewall

[Roni Bachar <roni () avnet co il>]

F5
Breach
Modsecurity


-----Original Message-----
From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On Behalf Of Kyu Kwak
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 12:49 AM
To: ॐ aditya mukadam ॐ; ams.sec () gmail com; security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Application Firewall

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