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APPLICATION SECURITY FIREWALL

Application Security or web security appliances include web application and XML firewalls that protect, balance, and accelerate web applications, databases, as well as the information exchanged between them. These devices are designed for medium and large enterprises, SaaS providers and application service providers; and can dramatically educe the deployment time and complexities of introducing web-based applications. Application firewalls apply industry-leading threat research to protect web-based applications, improving the security of confidential information and aiding in legislative and PCI compliance. Some Application Firewalls go beyond the traditional web application firewalls to provide XML security enforcement, application acceleration, and server load balancing.

In addition to security, these devices leverage an intelligent, application-aware load-balancing engine to distribute traffic and route content across multiple web servers. This load balancing increases resource utilization, application stability, and server response times. Web application traffic is further accelerated by an independent SSL and XML encryption processor, which increases transaction throughput and reduces processing requirements on the web servers. Requirement 6 of PCI-DDS, states that specific functionality in an Application Firewall is to be included.