Why You Should Perform Security Functions at the Load Balancing Level

Protecting web applications from cyberattacks is a critical operational imperative for organizations in today’s increasingly complex cloud, SaaS and hybrid deployment environments. As the threat landscape evolves, implementing a multi-layered strategy is essential to improve your IT defenses. Load balancers play a pivotal role in this strategy, serving as strategic control points and application gatekeepers.

This whitepaper explores the crucial role of load balancing in cybersecurity and demonstrates how integrating security functions at the load-balancing level can significantly enhance an organization’s security posture. Given their position in the user and application server chain, load balancers are ideally suited to inspect access requests before they reach applications and data sources. This enables load balancers to identify and stop malicious traffic from compromising backend servers.