While application awareness is emerging on individual Layer 4-7 network components, such as firewalls and WAN optimisation appliances, there’s still a way to go in generating application ...

There's a whole group of vendors looking to ease the installation of IP VPNs by supporting application layer technology.

Part 3 looks at a transport layer middleware example using the User Datagram Protocol, as well as examples of embedded Java and networking middleware.] 10.4 Application Layer Software Examples In some ...

The application layer includes network applications that convey information about network behavior and policies. Using northbound APIs, applications and services on this layer can interact with ...

Software-defined networking (SDN) is IT's new black, displacing cloud as the technology darling du jour. But while all the focus on the network layers is ultimately good for applications-after all, an ...

I am the biggest defense-in-depth supporter there is, but deep defenses don't obviate the need to protect the perimeter. This year, we're going to see a lot of action from security vendors trying ...

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.

In this column, I’ll discuss the networking framework that is evolving from the application-centric cloud through the use of VMs and containers.

Application layer attacks, or layer 7 attacks as they’re often called, are typically part of a multi-vector DDoS attack target not only applications, but also the network and bandwidth. The ...

Security researchers have recently observed a large application-layer distributed denial-of-service attack using a new technique that could foil DDoS defenses and could spell trouble for website ...