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Web security tools

Web security tools

- [Narrator] Let's talk about two security technologies that assist with protecting web traffic. Proxy servers and web application firewalls. Proxy servers play an important role in web security. Proxy servers are specialized servers that browse websites on behalf of end users. They serve as proxies or intermediaries that prevent users from directly connecting to websites. Normally, when a user connects to a website, the user system is in direct contact with the server sending information back and forth. In a proxy situation, the proxy server sits in the middle of the connection. The user connects to the proxy server and the proxy server connects to the web server. All traffic then passes through the proxy server. This has three important security benefits. First, proxying provides anonymity. The web server never learns the network address of the actual end user. The web server logs only contain the address of the proxy…

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