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Extend Security to the Edge with Web App Security
from Akamai Technologies

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White Paper

Description:
As enterprises move more of their business transactions online, they face the challenge of defending a perimeter that grows increasingly porous. The network firewalls that once locked down the enterprise perimeter are ineffective against Web-based attacks. This white paper examines current trends in Web application security, assessing the present threat environment as well as limitations in existing approaches to protection, and then explores how a Web application firewall solution can overcome these challenges.

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Web Applications Firewalls (WAFs) provide a practical way to augment code reviews, providing a broad blanket of application protection by filtering all incoming Web requests. Unlike traditional network firewalls, WAFs have the ability to understand Web traffic payloads through their Deep Packet Inspection capabilities. They are typically deployed as hardware appliances that sit behind the enterprise firewall and in front of the Web servers.

Akamai’s distributed Web Application Firewall (WAF) service offers a unique approach to securing Web applications against pervasive, modern-day threats, leveraging the flexibility and scalability of the Internet cloud to overcome the limitations of more rigid, centralized WAFs. Running as a service deployed across the 50,000-server EdgePlatform, Akamai WAF offers the industry’s only distributed web application firewall, combining unmatched scalability, reliability, and performance with ease of integration and simplified management.

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