Archive for November, 2008

  • When Your Load Balancer Has A Short Attention Span

    When Your Load Balancer Has A Short Attention Span

    The ability for a load balancer to peer into (and potentially manipulate) the HTTP headers of incoming connections was once an advanced feature, but now is fairly commonplace.  Most often it’s used in cookie -based persistence, but it’s also used in web switching, true-source IP...

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  • Web Application Firewall: What’s In A Name?

    Web Application Firewall: What’s In A Name?

    In my recent review of KEMP’s new LoadMaster software, which includes Web Application Firewall capabilities, Ofer Shezaf (from breach.com) had this to say in the comments section: Systems supporting only snort rules and lacking a positive security model are not usually not considered a web...

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