Security Technology

The application server has a separate load balancer and a security infrastructure such as a firewall and should be equipped with a support for databases, transaction management, communication, legacy data, and other functionalities. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), which is commonly used for secure communication between clients and Web servers. Even though SSL is the de-facto standard for transport layer security, its high overhead and poor scalability are two major problems in designing secure large-scale network servers. Deployment of SSL can decrease a server’s capacity by up to two orders of magnitude.