AppShield

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AppShield was an early Web application Firewall. [1] AppShield was conceptualized by Eran Reshef and Gili Raanan and was introduced to the market by Perfecto Technologies (now Sanctum) in the summer of 1999. [2] AppShield worked by inspecting incoming HTTP requests and blocking malicious attacks based on a dynamic policy which was composed by analyzing the outgoing HTML pages. [3] [4] [5] A 2002 ZDNet article noted that in the three years following its launch, it had been used by 60 Fortune 100 companies. [6]

Watchfire acquired Sanctum in 2004, and subsequently sold the intellectual property for AppShield to F5 Networks, which discontinued the product in favor of its competing TrafficShield product. [7]

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