Web Application Firewall Evaluation Criteria

Student: Beibutov Eldar

Supervisor: Petr Baranov

Educational Programme: Information Security Management (Master)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2016

The paper discusses the basic approaches to securing web applications, among which highlighted an approach based on the use of screening technologies and malware filtering requests based on web application firewall. The criteria of selection of such devices. Defined main problems of web application firewalls and proposes a conceptual development of the technologies.

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