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Definition of Application Level Firewall

An Application Level Firewall is a firewall where one application-level (i.e., not kernel) process is used to forward each session that an internal user makes to a network resource on the public network.

Application Level Firewall's are considered to be the most secure type of Firewall's, but they incur a significant performance penalty. The penalty arises because a new process must be started each time a user starts a new session -- for instance by following a URL to a new World-Wide Web site.