| has gloss | eng: An application firewall is a form of firewall which controls input, output, and/or access from, to, or by an application or service. It operates by monitoring and potentially blocking the input, output, or system service calls which do not meet the configured policy of the firewall. The application firewall is typically built to monitor one or more specific applications or services (such as a web or database service), unlike a stateful network firewall which can provide some access controls for nearly any kind of network traffic. There are two primary categories of application firewalls, network-based application firewalls and host-based application firewalls. |