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Krikken suggests mitigating security risks with a Web app firewall (WAF):

A WAF is an appliance or server software add-on that can monitor and block traffic to and from applications. They have become common in many enterprises, especially those that must comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), which calls for either use of a WAF or frequent application code reviews.

“I’m usually the last one to recommend – if you have a problem – throwing a piece of technology at it or putting something in front of it and filtering it, because it’s a good idea to build secure applications right from the start,” Krikken said, “but you can’t do that with all applications.”

“I have an increasing number of customers starting to question whether putting a Web application firewall in front of an application to fix something is all that much worse than fixing the code.”

What do you think about securing Java Web applications. Is a WAF firewall appliance or add-on security server a valid strategy? Do developers need to bake security into Web applications? Is this potentially a growth area for new Web developers? Leave us a comment to let us know what you think

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Krikken suggests mitigating security risks with a Web app firewall (WAF):

A WAF is an appliance or server software add-on that can monitor and block traffic to and from applications. They have become common in many enterprises, especially those that must comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), which calls for either use of a WAF or frequent application code reviews.

“I’m usually the last one to recommend – if you have a problem – throwing a piece of technology at it or putting something in front of it and filtering it, because it’s a good idea to build secure applications right from the start,” Krikken said, “but you can’t do that with all applications.”

“I have an increasing number of customers starting to question whether putting a Web application firewall in front of an application to fix something is all that much worse than fixing the code.”

What do you think about securing Java Web applications. Is a WAF firewall appliance or add-on security server a valid strategy? Do developers need to bake security into Web applications? Is this potentially a growth area for new Web developers? Leave us a comment to let us know what you think

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Krikken suggests mitigating security risks with a Web app firewall (WAF):

A WAF is an appliance or server software add-on that can monitor and block traffic to and from applications. They have become common in many enterprises, especially those that must comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), which calls for either use of a WAF or frequent application code reviews.

“I’m usually the last one to recommend – if you have a problem – throwing a piece of technology at it or putting something in front of it and filtering it, because it’s a good idea to build secure applications right from the start,” Krikken said, “but you can’t do that with all applications.”

“I have an increasing number of customers starting to question whether putting a Web application firewall in front of an application to fix something is all that much worse than fixing the code.”

What do you think about securing Java Web applications. Is a WAF firewall appliance or add-on security server a valid strategy? Do developers need to bake security into Web applications? Is this potentially a growth area for new Web developers? Leave us a comment to let us know what you think

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Expanding in-memory data-grid capabilities

In addition to the new in-memory data grid platform – which enables high availability for zero-message-loss clustering – Mule ESB 3.3 introduces a Cache message processor to dramatically increase performance with near linear horizontal scale-out for high throughput requirements.

One of the most common ways to use Cache is for service result caching; depending on the use case, we’ve witnessed performance improvements of 2x-10x! It reduces load on back-end services by caching results in the data-grid.

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Expressions are a very powerful feature in Mule ESB 3.3. Implementing business logic, expressions dynamically adapt the routing, filtering, and transformation elements in Mule at runtime based on the content of the message payload. In Mule ESB 3.3, we have unified the use of expressions and now provide a common syntax: the Mule Expression Language (MEL).  Whether  you are accessing message properties, performing xpath expressions or accessing context information, you can use  Mule Expression Language to get the job done.  Note that expressions are backward compatible and all expression languages supported in Mule ESB 3.2 are supported in Mule ESB 3.3 as well.

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Even more goodness

We’re really proud of all the improvements and added features Mule ESB 3.3 has to offer– what follows is a list of our favorites!

support for external databases in Enterprise Edition Mule Management Console (PostgreSQL and Oracle)
ability to easily perform batch processing of collections with a Foreach message processor
complete WS-Security support, including SAML2 for securing Web Services
ability to import third-party Cloud Connectors into Mule Studio, with full graphical design support
ability to configure High Availability for the Enterprise Mule Management Console
integration of Mule Studio and the Enterprise Edition Application Repository
access to expansive catalog of connectors that can be accessed and used from within Mule Studio
support for Java 7

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For a comprehensive list of our new features and functionality, check out the Mule ESB 3.3.0 Release Notes.

Check it out!

Enough with the chit chat!  Download Mule ESB 3.3 and get your hands on the tools that can take you from “zero to integrated” in a matter of hours. To get started, follow the instructions on the download page or go to Mule Studio’s Basic Tutorial.  If you learn best by doing, check out our Mule application examples that show you how to get up and running in a flash.

To learn more about how to migrate your existing Mule applications to Mule ESB 3.3, attend our upcoming Migrating to Mule 3.3 webinar on June 28th.

Additional links:

Mule ESB 3.3 Enterprise
Mule ESB 3.3 Community
Mule iON
Mule Studio
Mule 3.3 Documentation
Mule 3.3 Release Notes

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