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Crankin' up the heat
INDUSTRY statistics show that 80 per cent of malicious attacks target Port 80, the web traffic pass-through. Why, then, does the onus for web application protection still fall largely on network-layer devices? Web applications clearly need special security.
Firewalls specifically designed to protect web applications would recognise a hacker's attempt to create a buffer overflow, to inject false SQL or system commands in program variables, or to otherwise manipulate the datastream for ill purposes. Web application firewalls see the breaches that a network-layer firewall (or intrusion-detection system) is not capable of detecting.
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