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Re: Application Firewall


From: "ॐ aditya mukadam ॐ" <aditya.mukadam () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:26:20 +0530

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,  <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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