Nerdgasm: Cisco ACE Web Application Firewall Announced

Cisco announces the Web Application Features for the ACE module

“Today, Cisco is extend­ing its solu­tion for Application Networking Services (ANS)-Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) fam­ily of products-​​with the addi­tion of the Cisco ACE Web Application Firewall. The main com­pon­ent of this solu­tion is the ACE Web Application Firewall appli­ance in a con­veni­ent 1 RU form factor that provides a full-​​proxy fire­wall solu­tion for both HTML and XML-​​based Web applic­a­tions.. ACE Web Application Firewall solu­tion also includes the ACE Web Application Firewall Manager, a secure, Web-​​based applic­a­tion for secur­ity policy cre­ation and mon­it­or­ing. The Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) fam­ily of products rep­res­ents the next gen­er­a­tion of applic­a­tion switch­ing and Web ser­vices solu­tions for max­im­iz­ing avail­ab­il­ity, accel­er­a­tion and pro­tec­tion of data cen­ter applications.”

This changes the way I will design data centres. The abil­ity to use an ACE mod­ule to be a load bal­an­cer, SSL ter­min­a­tion, pro­tocol fire­wall and now applic­a­tion fire­wall means that this is very flex­ible tool. And with the vir­tu­al­isa­tion fea­tures, it can even be cost effect­ive. I had a look for the doc­u­ment­a­tion but it hasn’t been pos­ted yet so can’t com­ment on how the fea­tures look.

Also impacted is those com­pan­ies that have been attempt­ing to cre­ate a mar­ket for XML fire­walls. This mar­ket will now be closed to new play­ers and I would expect sev­eral of the cur­rent play­ers will be look for mer­ger partners.

Cisco ACE Web Application Firewall — Products & Services — Cisco Systems: “”

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