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Post details: Information Tech Glossary - Application Level Gateway

12/25/05

10:59:31 pm, Categories: Term of the Day, 80 words

Information Tech Glossary - Application Level Gateway

Also called as Application level firewalls. Application level gateway is a type of firewall. Application level firewalls readdress the traffic so that any outgoing traffic from a network appears to have been originated from the application firewall rather than from the internal network. An application gateway thus, initiates a connection on behalf of the user to the internal server. It provides strong authentication and logging since it connects on behalf of the user.

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