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2. Proxy server - Wikipedia

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   A proxy server may reside on the user's local computer, or at any point between the user's computer and destination servers on the Internet. A proxy server that passes unmodified requests and responses is usually called a gateway or sometimes a tunneling proxy. A forward proxy is an Internet-facing proxy used to retrieve data from a wide range ...

3. Firewall (computing) - Wikipedia

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   Firewall (computing) In computing, a firewall is a network security system that monitors and controls incoming and outgoing network traffic based on predetermined security rules. [1] [2] A firewall typically establishes a barrier between a trusted network and an untrusted network, such as the Internet. [3]

4. Application-level gateway - Wikipedia

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   An application-level gateway ( ALG, also known as application layer gateway, application gateway, application proxy, or application-level proxy) is a security component that augments a firewall or NAT employed in a mobile network. [1] [2] It allows customized NAT traversal filters to be plugged into the gateway to support address and port ...

5. Application firewall - Wikipedia

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   Application firewall. An application firewall is a form of firewall that controls input/output or system calls of an application or service. It operates by monitoring and blocking communications based on a configured policy, generally with predefined rule sets to choose from. The two primary categories of application firewalls are network-based ...

6. Web application firewall - Wikipedia

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   Description. A web application firewall is a special type of application firewall that applies specifically to web applications. It is deployed in front of web applications and analyzes bi-directional web-based (HTTP) traffic - detecting and blocking anything malicious. The OWASP provides a broad technical definition for a WAF as “a security ...

7. Bastion host - Wikipedia

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   Bastion host. A bastion host is a special-purpose computer on a network specifically designed and configured to withstand attacks, so named by analogy to the bastion, a military fortification. The computer generally hosts a single application or process, for example, a proxy server or load balancer, and all other services are removed or limited ...

8. Reverse proxy - Wikipedia

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   The reverse proxy analyzes each incoming request and delivers it to the right server within the local area network . Reverse proxies can perform A/B testing and multivariate testing without placing JavaScript tags or code into pages. A reverse proxy can add access authentication to a web server that does not have any authentication.

9. Anonymous proxy - Wikipedia

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   Anonymous proxy. An anonymizer or an anonymous proxy is a tool that attempts to make activity on the Internet untraceable. It is a proxy server computer that acts as an intermediary and privacy shield between a client computer and the rest of the Internet. It accesses the Internet on the user's behalf, protecting personal information of the ...