Alliesta firewall & HTTP filtering 1.4 descriptions Complete Web Application Protection with Allesta Instant Detection Prevention Allesta protects your web applications against entire classes of attacks. Allesta provides proactive detection & prevention of all known & unknown application level attacks. Allesta includes 3 key modules to protect your server: Allesta Firewall Module Allesta HTTP Filtering Module Allesta Connection Limiting Module ALLESTA FIREWALL Allesta is a software firewall featuring stateful packet filtering. Detailed rule definition to perform stateful inspection & protocol inspection of all outgoing & incoming Internet traffic. Rules can be defined between interfaces and/or IP addresses. ALLESTA HTTP FILTERING Allesta #039 s complete filtering methods identify legitimate & illegitimate requests & to distinguish between them. Filtering methods used in Allesta includes: HTTP method HTTP version URL length Header length Header size Presence or absence of particular header Header contents File type General POST size General POST contents POST GET payloads & query parameters Parameter type Parameter value Parameter length Parameter case Parameter in message body Character set RFC compliance Invalid path traversal Restricted methods & much more. ALLESTA CONNECTION LIMITING Allesta connection limiting module is an application level connection limiting service. It counts connections from remote address to local addresses & blocks unwanted traffic by using predefined connection limiting rules. It #039 s possible to stop DDOS attacks by using connection limiting module. Allesta #039 s Connection Limiting Module provide clean Web traffic improved management of network traffic loads. Allesta #039 s Connection Limiting Module lowers cost by optimizing speed & performance of your public site while providing protection against DDoS virus & other malignant traffic.