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CCNP Security Question of the Week

Author: Dawn Hopper 20 October 2011 378 views No Comments

What is another name for application layer gateway?

  1. IPS
  2. Proxy
  3. Dynamic firewall
  4. Stateful firewall

 

The answer is 2.

An application layer gateway (ALG) is commonly called an (application) proxy. It is a piece of software that is designed to act as an intermediary and relay application layer requests and responses between clients and servers.

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