Next Generation Application Proxies: What Check Point &Amp; Netscreen Understand But Are Afraid To Admit

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Presented at Blackhat USA 2004 by

Andrew Stevens

Great confusion has set in over the last 18 to 24 months around the role of the firewall in the application security and intrusion prevention arena. A common reaction to the increased volume and effectiveness of high-profile attacks we hear about in the news today is, “I have a firewall, but these attacks are still getting inside my network. I thought my firewall was supposed to protect my network and applications!?”