Proxy Servers

GCSX No 17.1 Proxies

It's RECOMMENDED that all HTTP and SMTP services pass through a proxy server

GCSX No 17.2 Proxies

It's RECOMMENDED that Proxy servers authenticate the hosts with which they communicate

GCSX No 17.3 Proxies

Proxy servers MUST ensure users are authenticated and that access controls are enforced for each user

GCSX No 17.4 Proxies

It's RECOMMENDED that Proxy servers perform protocol checking to prevent buffer overflows and other vulnerability exploitation

Castleforce Proxy Partners

There are many content aware proxies available and we have partnered with some of the leaders in the field.

 Provide Microsoft Hardened Security Appliances ranging from the MSA Series which is ISA Server 2006 on an appliance to the WSA range which has IAG running on a dedicated appliance.  

Proxy Server

In computer networks, a proxy server is a server (a computer system or an application program) that services the requests of its clients by forwarding requests to other servers. A client connects to the proxy server, requesting some service, such as a file, connection, web page, or other resource, available from a different server. The proxy server provides the resource by connecting to the specified server and requesting the service on behalf of the client. A proxy server may optionally alter the client's request or the server's response, and sometimes it may serve the request without contacting the specified server. In this case, it would 'cache' the first request to the remote server, so it could save the information for later, and make everything as fast as possible.