Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Mar 14, 2019 | SECURITY, TECH
An HAProxy load balancer allows you to mask IP addresses in order to protect the privacy of your users. Read on to learn more. How do load balancers fit into the larger debate over data privacy and security? It helps to step back and consider how HAProxy adds a layer...
Chad Lavoie Chad Lavoie | Nov 28, 2018 | SECURITY, TECH
HAProxy is a high-performance load balancer that provides advanced defense capabilities for detecting and protecting against malicious bot traffic to your website. Combining its unique ACL, map, and stick table systems with its powerful configuration language allows...
Chad Lavoie Chad Lavoie | Nov 9, 2018 | SECURITY, TECH
HAProxy’s high-performance security capabilities are utilized as a key line of defense by many of the world’s top enterprises. Application-layer DDoS attacks are aimed at overwhelming an application with requests or connections, and in this post we will show you how...
Chad Lavoie Chad Lavoie | Mar 24, 2017 | SECURITY
The Proxy protocol is a widely used invention of our CTO at HAProxy Technologies, Willy Tarreau, to solve the problem of TCP connection parameters being lost when relaying TCP connections through proxies. Its primary purpose is to chain proxies and reverse-proxies...
Baptiste Assmann Baptiste Assmann | Feb 10, 2016 | SECURITY, TECH
One of the biggest security challenges that companies face in today’s modern climate is the POST attack. Unlike a more traditional “Denial-of-Service” attack, POST attacks target a servers logical resources – making them particularly powerful...
Baptiste Assmann Baptiste Assmann | Jun 9, 2015 | SECURITY, TECH
SSL/TLS and HSTS SSL everywhere is on its way. Unfortunately, many applications were written for HTTP only and switching to HTTPs is not an easy and straight forward path. Read more here about impact of TLS offloading (when a third party tool perform TLS in front of...
