The application layer, however, doesn’t do applications. It provides services such as message or file transfer, directory lookup, transaction processing, etc., to the true user applications.

Application awareness is emerging on firewalls and WAN optimization devices,but efforts fall short of a network-wide strategy,especially at Layers 2 and 3.

Application layer attacks have been with us since the first internet-facing applications. However, a recent survey showed 89% of respondents admitted to an application attack in the past year.

The processing in a network protocol that provides the starting point and purpose of the communications session. The application layer is layer 7 of 7 in the OSI model. For example, email, Web ...

Cisco has made vague noises about smart networking equipment that would do just that ever since its AON (Application-Oriented Networking) initiative launch last June.

There’s a whole group of vendors looking to ease the installation of IP VPNs by supporting application layer technology. Companies such as Neoteris, NetSilica and Netilla Networks (the author of ...

Oligo Security, the runtime security company, today announced the launch of the Application Attack Matrix, a standardized framework to categorize tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) for ...

The number of DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks that target weak spots in Web applications in addition to network services has risen during the past year and attackers are using ...

Application-layer VPNs also work well with Web-based and intranet applications, allowing secure remote access without exposing nonhardened intranet servers to outside attack. The proxy terminates ...