June 2021
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
5h 17m
English
This book is supposed to be about network security, but this chapter is about application security. The two concepts are unique, but they are so intertwined that they often cannot be discussed separately. Web applications are accessed via public and private networks, and the back-end components that make up those applications exist on networks as well. Network and application security can face different threats that exploit different vulnerabilities, but the tools used to address the security of each need to work together, so are best understood together.
A Web Application Firewall (WAF) is a security component that inspects inbound traffic to web applications (Layer 7) ...