Security Basics: Re: Application Firewall

["Sanjay R" <2sanjayr () gmail com>]

sorry for a late response. ..

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 7:26 PM, ॐ aditya mukadam ॐ
<aditya.mukadam () gmail com> wrote:
> Application level firewalls are actually not firewalls but can be
> called as intelligent proxies. Cisco ASA is a stateful firewall.
sanjay>> Application level firewalls are firewalls. Proxy, if used in
a special way, is a type of application level firewall. however, it
will be nice and interesting to hear "why application level firewall
is NOT a 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,  <ams.sec () gmail com> 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


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