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Application security solutions

Application security solutions

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Application security solutions

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- [Narrator] Yet another layer of security that we can implement as part of our Cisco defense in-depth strategy is to secure our applications. And in this video, we'll consider a few options for application security, including a web application firewall, Identity and Access Management or IAM, and a couple of Cisco solutions including Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Cisco Secure Web Appliance. But let's begin by considering a web application firewall. One thing this can do for us is help protect against a denial of service attack. Maybe a malicious user is flooding a web server with all these HTTP requests in an attempt to overwhelm that web server. Well, this web application firewall has the ability to rate limit those incoming requests. So the web server does not succumb to this denial of service attack. It can also help protect us from cross site scripting or a CSS attack. And later in the course we'll identify exactly what a cross site scripting attack is all about. But for now, I…

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