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.

In some cases, applications can be based upon industry-accepted standards, as shown in Figure 10-27. For example, for devices that need to be able to connect to other devices to transfer data or to ...

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 ...

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 to ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

This column will be the first of three columns discussing the evolution of external controllers for containers and virtual machines. First and foremost, it is very important that the frameworks are ...