Tag: LoadMaster

What is an Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Why Should You Use One?

An Application Delivery Controller (ADC) is a networking device that improves the performance, security, and availability of applications. This article explains what an ADC is, how it works, and why you should use one.

June 15, 2023

Business Risks of Application Downtime

Keeping these applications online and responsive is vital to all organizations. Maximizing application availability is foundational to delivering a good user experience for staff and customers.

February 16, 2023

How Load Balancers Respond to Advanced Persistent Threats and Vulnerabilities

Learn more about how LoadMaster secures applications, including information on DDoS protection, web application firewall security and more.

February 6, 2023

What is a Web Application Firewall (WAF) and Why Do You Need One?

Read more about Web Application Firewall to protect your applications from cyber attacks.

February 1, 2023

Load Balancing Algorithms Explained

Read more about load balancers and number of algorithms to deliver improved performance.

January 31, 2023

Adding Layered Security to Cloud Applications

The internet is a dangerous place, with many bad actors using automated tools to attack organizations of all sizes, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Regardless of your …

October 17, 2022

Microsoft Offers Zero-Day Exchange Exploit Workaround: LoadMaster Load Balancers Block and Repair Zero-Day Attacks

In recent days, two zero-day vulnerabilities against Microsoft on-premises Exchange Servers have been publicized and attacked. The good news is Exchange Cloud users, such as Microsoft 365 customers, need not …

October 6, 2022

Web Traffic Encryption with TLS/SSL and Progress Kemp LoadMaster

Protecting your organization from the ever-changing threat landscape requires a defense strategy that deploys multiple technologies and human factors at multiple levels. One of the most important is data encryption …

September 27, 2022

How a DDoS Attack Works: History, Mitigation and Remediation

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS). The words and the letters themselves create foreboding. Whatever it is, it is bad. Hackers do it, it causes damage, and only IT pros seemingly …

September 22, 2022

Advanced Dell ECS Traffic Management with Enhanced DNS

Dell ECS ™ offers scalable, high performance storage solutions across a range of workloads. In this blog, we’ll explore how ECS Connection Manager enhances Dell storage environments with real-world examples …

September 19, 2022

The Landscape of DDoS Attacks and Guidance to Prepare Your Defense for 2022’s Most Common DDoS Attacks

Businesses of all sizes, in all industries, are vulnerable to DDoS attacks. This statement is as true today as it was when I first wrote about the state of DDoS …

September 13, 2022

How to Choose a Load Balancer: 5 Tips for Finding the Best Load Balancing Solution

If you were in IT in the mid-90s, you may have heard of load balancing. These were low-level hardware devices designed to distribute traffic across the network and focused largely …

September 8, 2022

How to Use a Load Balancer as an API Gateway

One of the biggest trends in application delivery is the increased importance of integration capabilities. Web applications are not only consumed by end users, but also make up functionality consumed …

August 10, 2022

Enhancing Day-One Exploit Containment with Custom WAF Rules

Bridging the gap between when a vulnerability announcement is released and when a fix is available. We live in a world where the good guys are constantly responding to threats …

August 5, 2022

How To Use Progress Kemp LoadMaster for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a cloud computing service offered by Oracle Corporation providing servers, storage, network, applications, and services through a global network of Oracle’s managed data centers. The …

August 4, 2022

Implement Single Sign-On and Pre-Authentication for any application with Okta and Progress Kemp LoadMaster

Organizations experience a challenge in making applications easily available anytime and anywhere while also maintaining the balance between access security and user experience. Today, application access patterns have moved towards …

August 2, 2022

Making OpenEdge All It Can Be with LoadMaster

Progress customers build some of their most mission-critical applications with the OpenEdge application development platform. Many have also taken the next step, moving these applications to the Progress Application Server …

July 28, 2022

Choosing a Load Balancer: A Buyer’s Guide to Success

Digital infrastructure has become essential to many parts of modern life. It’s hard to think of anything that digital delivery doesn’t touch in some way – shopping, banking, healthcare, entertainment, …

A, B, C, D, E(LK) plus LM WAF Equals stunning visualization!

This blog will run through creating dashboards in the ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) Stack to gain further insight into the LoadMaster WAF (Web Application Firewall). ELK Stack The ELK Stack …

January 20, 2022

Power(Shell) your WAF deployment

It is nice to develop scripts that you can use to configure your load balancer and Web Application Firewall (WAF).  The scripts can help integrate these services into your network orchestration …

October 7, 2021