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Evaluating Application-Aware Firewall Performance
Overview The rise of application-layer DoS attacks, the popularity of Network Address Translation (NAT), and the need for advanced network security capabilities have spawned the development of application-aware firewalls. Unlike their TCP filtering ancestors, these devices include features such as URL and content blocking, file and printer sharing and VoIP call control, spam and virus filtering, intrusion prevention and protocol anomaly detection. Unfortunately, it's difficult to compare application-aware firewalls. Vendors usually list only raw 'best case' TCP performance statistics, ignoring the fact that application filtering capabilities can sap most of the available CPU horsepower and degrade performance by more than one half.
| Publisher | Agilent Technologies | File Format | |
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| Date Published | September 2004 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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