Web Security

Web Traffic Management for Load Balancing, Content Delivery, and Security

Citrix Netscaler

Deployed in front of Web servers, NetScaler application delivery controllers combine load balancer and content switching for intelligent traffic management at up to 18 Gbps along with sophisticated server monitoring and health checks to ensure applications and  databases are functioning properly.  Application acceleration methods including HTTP compression, static and dynamic content caching, network WAN protocol optimization, and the multiplexing of thousands of incoming connections to a small number of long-lived, back-end server farm sessions to speed-up applications by five times and more.  Application security is provided with a web application firewall which uses a positive security model and automatically learns proper application behavior to ensure protection against day-zero attacks.  Encrypted SSL traffic is no problem as NetScaler provides not only SSL acceleration, but full SSL VPN tunnel support with certificate management and granular access control.