Designing an Integrated Architecture for Network Content Security Gateways
Ying–Dar Lin, Chih-Wei Jan, Po‐Ching Lin, Yuan‐Cheng Lai · Computer · 2006
Installing multiple network security products to detect and block viruses, spam, and other intrusions introduces substantial overhead in interprocess communications and kernel/user space interactions. Tightly integrating these functions in a single gateway can streamline the packet flows and dramatically increase Web and mail traffic throughput