Testing Application Identification Features of Firewalls

As many applications migrate to the use of HTTP-based protocols, traditional firewalls have become less effective as an access control. To address this, the firewall industry has adopted a new feature generically referred to in this paper as Application Identification. Over the next decade, it is...

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William McGlasson

November 8, 2013

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