Improving Web SecurityFailure to keep data safe can ultimately impact a company’s revenue stream, shareholder value and customer base. Web 2.0 applications, Internet Malware, web server, and database hacking are a constant threat to data security. Hundreds of millions of people worldwide use the Internet to bank, shop, purchase goods and services, and perform research. To enable this flow of information, organizations must open up their firewalls, the very devices once thought to offer impenetrable protection. Billions of dollars and millions of personal identities and private information are exposed to hackers who find their way in through security vulnerabilities in web applications. From a security perspective, firewalls and SSL offer little protection from web threats.
In this paper, we define the web threats facing organizations as they attempt to protect sensitive information from both unintentional and malicious activities over the internet. Implementing and maintaining internet security has been exclusive to firewalls and application security installed at the desktop or web server infrastructure. We describe how using the Secure Web Gateway can leverage high performance application layer content inspection to provide security at the network layer for Desktop Browsers, Web 2.0, Web Server and Database exploits preventing data loss.
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