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.

As soon as you allow an application through your firewall, there is a possibility of a layer attack on it. Of course, we have to let applications through firewalls to do business – to allow ...

The largest application layer attack came in at 138,990rps (requests per second), slightly higher than in Q3, but there was a decline in the average attack size, with just 15.7% of attacks ...

A new denial-of-service attack dubbed 'Loop DoS' targeting application layer protocols can pair network services into an indefinite communication loop that creates large volumes of traffic.