jShield: An Open Source Solution for Web Application Security
Marcio A. Macedo, Ricardo Queiroz, Julio Cesar Damasceno · 2010
The purpose of this article is describe a solution for web application security based on an application firewall which is implemented using a model called reverse proxy. The application firewall use as much the model of negative filter as the model of positive filter for, apart from providing applications with more security, avoiding the occurrence of false positive what could filter applications authentic packets. This way, the firewall aggregates both the easy configuration of the negative security model with the better security provided by positive model.