The technology provides secure remote access to a broad spectrum of applications and network resources Application-layer VPNs are generating lots of attention these days. Proponents cite the ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. The application layer of the ...

Randy Wood, vice president of federal sales at application delivery networking platforms provider F5 Networks (Nasdaq: FFIV), has said federal information technology leaders should prioritize security ...

Getting started on designing a network is a task of formidable proportions, but all the more so if you are looking to build a secure IT network. Often, IT system administrators are not fully familiar ...

Listen carefully. The top level of the OSI Reference Model and the IETF protocol stack is the application layer. The application layer, however, doesn’t do applications. It provides services such as ...

This column will be the first of three columns discussing the evolution of external controllers for containers and virtual machines. First and foremost, it is very important that the frameworks are ...

An introduction to data communications, computer networks, protocols, and distributed processing as well as relevant standards and underlying theory. Topics include ...

Application layer distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are on the rise, and organizations must protect themselves from this uptick in application layer attacks and from the overall scourge of ...

Legacy networking approaches don’t align with the way that cloud providers create services or access and only introduce more complexity. Move to the cloud, but leave your traditional networking behind ...