Firewall

The acquisition is expected to be completed within the next 60 days.

Terms related to political activists, anti-government movements and state censorship efforts are the most likely to be censored on Chinese blogs and social media sites, according to researchers at Carnegie Mellon University.

In the past, businesses confronted the threat of cyber attacks and data breaches primarily by building firewalls and other “perimeter defenses” around their networks, but the threat has continued to evolve, and more criminals are hacking into applications that are running on a plethora of new devices and environments, including cloud, mobile, and social media. Which begets the question: Is it still worthwhile investing in application security?

OpenWAF is the first open source community-based distributed Web application firewall project.

This age's application-aware firewalls offer a slew of features which add more to traffic management. Security author Michael Cobb gives his take on these new features and how they work in the enterprise.