Small-to-medium sized businesses (SMB) are increasingly relying upon web-based applications and web-enabled services for running their business. Applications such as CRM, e-commerce transactions and other web-enabled applications are accessed both locally and remotely from outside the business facilities. These web-based applications are vulnerable to attacks from viruses, intrusions, and denial of service (DoS) attacks, as traffic comes into the network through various ports and firewalls without being inspected.
SSL Offload/Acceleration, The need for application-based Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) security protection and Denial of Service (DOS) . Web-based Applications are Overview Vulnerable to Attacks - such as viruses, intrusions, and DoS, as traffic Small-to-medium sized businesses (SMB) comes into the network through various are increasingly relying upon web-based ports and firewalls without being applications and web-enabled services for inspected. running their business. Applications such as CRM, e-commerce transactions and . Explosive Growth of Attacks - The other web-enabled applications are amount and seriousness of application accessed both locally and remotely from vulnerabilities are growing at a dramatic outside the business facilities. These web- rate, while the cost of these attacks is based applications are vulnerable to soaring. attacks from viruses, intrusions, and denial . Current Security Tools Cannot Block of service (DoS) attacks, as traffic comes Attacks - Firewalls, IDS and anti-virus into the network through various ports and gateways do not have the processing firewalls without being inspected. capacity, performance and the SMBs are facing an extraordinary number application-level security intelligence to of network attacks from internal personnel guard against application-level attacks, and external hackers. Security problems leaving organizations vulnerable. such as unauthorized access, firewall breaches and other malicious intrusions are LoadMaster Security Benefits occurring on a daily basis. Compounding . Protects web servers that have no these problems is the fact that existing controlled access - including protection security tools such as firewalls, IDS, VPNs, from hackers and denial of service anti-spam and anti-virus gateways do not attacks have the processing capability, .performance and the application-level Protects web servers with controlled security intelligence to protect against the access, by limiting access specifically growing amount of application-level attacks. to authorized users SMBs are particularly vulnerable to security . Provides security protection for threats, and risk major losses of intellectual Internet, intranet, and extranet property, user productivity and potential environments loss of revenue. With that said, there is an increasing need for security solutions that . Blocks the most common attacks provide real-time protection from a wide before they reach servers variety of application-level attacks. LoadMaster Security Capabilities When an SMB incurs a DoS attack, their IT .resources are deprived of the services. Black List (Access Control List system) Examples of such an inability of a network . IP address filtering service are: e-mail might become unavailable, or there may be a temporary . Firewall filtering loss of all network connectivity and . DDOS mitigation services, or the datacenter may be forced to temporarily shut down operations. DoS . SYN Flood Protection attacks can also wipe out a computer . Ping of Death Protection system's software programs and files. . ICMP Flood protection . UDP Flood protection
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LoadMaster SSL Security processing, cookie-based persistence and All LoadMaster Application Delivery content switching. ASIC-enabled SSL Controllers and Server Load Balancers Acceleration has a separate specialized include hardware-based (ASIC) for Secure processor, which handles all SSL functions. Socket Layer (SSL) offload and acceleration. SSL Acceleration performed . SSL Acceleration includes support for by LoadMaster provides two benefits: up to 256 SSL Certificates, supports third-party certificates, automated SSL . LoadMaster offloads the SSL workload certificate chaining, and web user from the Servers, and performs Layer 7 interface-based SSL certificate signing request (CSR) generation.
Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) LoadMaster's Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) is installed in-line, inspecting all traffic before forwarding it onto the network. If the LoadMaster IPS detects malicious activi... [download for more]
