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AppShield was an early Web application Firewall.[1] AppShield was conceptualized by Eran Reshef and Gili Raanan and was introduced to the market by Perfecto Technologies (now Sanctum) in the summer of 1999.[2] AppShield worked by inspecting incoming HTTP requests and blocking malicious attacks based on a dynamic policy which was composed by analyzing the outgoing HTML pages.[3][4][5] A 2002 ZDNet article noted that in the three years following its launch, it had been used by 60 Fortune 100 companies.[6]
Watchfire acquired Sanctum in 2004, and subsequently sold the intellectual property for AppShield to F5 Networks, which discontinued the product in favor of its competing TrafficShield product.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Sanctum's AppShield". Network World. Retrieved 2024-10-05.
- ^ "Perfecto Technologies Delivers AppShield for E-Business - InternetNews". www.internetnews.com. 27 August 1999. Archived from the original on 2016-04-21. Retrieved 2016-09-12.
- ^ Messmer, Ellen. "CNN - New tool blocks wily e-comm hacker tricks - September 7, 1999". www.cnn.com. Archived from the original on April 11, 2000. Retrieved 2016-09-12.
- ^ "Method and system for dynamic refinement of security policies". Google Patents. 2002-12-31.
- ^ "Method and system for extracting application protocol characteristics". Google Patents. 1999-07-01.
- ^ "You need more than a firewall to stop hackers". ZDNET. Retrieved 2024-10-05.
- ^ "Game Over? - Information Security Magazine". Archived from the original on 2014-12-15. Retrieved 2016-09-12.