Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Traditional methods of protecting IT networks and data, including firewalls, zero trust and ...

NetScreen Technologies later this year will improve its security products to help customers combat attacks disguised as innocuous traffic that might sneak by traditional firewalls. By incorporating ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Arcjet today announced the release of its new Python SDK, extending Arcjet's application-layer security platform to Python-based services and APIs. The new ...

Application layer attacks have been with us since the first internet-facing applications. However, a recent survey showed 89% of respondents admitted to an application attack in the past year.

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Today, application security posture management platform Bionic announced ...

In the cat-and-mouse game between DDoS hackers and defenders, it seems protection vendors have made great progress in the past year - particularly in the realm of application-layer attacks.

Recent advances in defenses that target malicious network traffic have made it possible to analyze that traffic in real time for potential threats. These techniques enable visibility throughout the ...

Organizations are quickly realizing there's no longer perimeter security versus application security—all security is application security. The application is the layer responsible for executing the ...

A hot new trend in firewalls is the application-layer firewall, sometimes called an application shield. Although the attack sequences we used in this roundup could be described as “application layer” ...

No two applications are the same. This is what makes securing them so difficult. A big firm like Microsoft will have an established application security function that extensively and continually tests ...

Robust application security is necessary to ensure Web site availability and to protect sensitive customer and corporate data and application-enabled revenue. However, there’s growing confusion about ...