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Why Organizations Need Web Application Firewalls

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Overview Web application firewalls offer immediate and effective protection for web applications and help organizations pass security audits that demonstrate regulatory compliance. In addition, web application firewalls facilitate secure coding initiatives by giving security teams visibility into their applications' defects, transactions, architectures, and communications. This paper will discuss why web application firewalls can offer the real-time, continuous, and customized security that web applications require.

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Publisher	Breach Security	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Firewalls, Security Tools

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