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Firewall

The legal barrier between banking and broker/dealer operations within a financial institution created to prevent the exchange of inside information.

Chinese Wall

Informal; the imposed lack of communication between the investment banking and brokerage services of a financial institution. The Chinese wall exists in order to prevent brokers and investment bankers working for the same company from deliberately or accidentally sharing inside information that could lead to illegal insider trading. The Chinese wall protects both the financial institution at large and the individual investment bankers and brokers.

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Both VPNs and proxy servers seem to do the same thing, so why shouldn't they work together?

REMOTE ACCESS SECURITY: Proxy by Hostname to the Rescue!

The KGC, proxy server, and SDS monitor produce their public and master private key pairs.

CP-ABE Access Control Scheme for Sensitive Data Set Constraint with Hidden Access Policy and Constraint Policy

The prototype mobile web browser is built upon the built-in web browser of Android, which is an open-source mobile operating system and a simple proxy server is implemented to be paired with the prototype mobile web browser.

A Hybrid Web Browser Architecture for Mobile Devices

According to the Proxybox website, for US$25 a month, customers can get access to 150 proxy servers from the countries they desire, while for $40 they can get access to an unlimited number of proxies.

Infected computers rented as proxy servers on the black market

If IP address tracking is required, the address will lead to one of two places: a proxy server or an Internet service provider.

Tracking down anonymous internet abusers: who is John Doe?

If users communicate in a local area network (LAN) all requests and responds are transmitted through the Proxy server. Therefore, for each initiated call the new communication session between two subscribers and Proxy server is created.

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We can encrypt/decrypt SIP session information transmitted between the proxy server and users, but this causes additional overload on the proxy server and transmission delay.

Stateful virtual proxy for sip message flooding attack detection

A child pornographer who wants to remain anonymous may use a proxy server anytime they communicate online with the hosting provider.

Child pornography Web sites: techniques used to evade law enforcement

Now, the client communicates with the proxy server that transfers its requirements to the server and vice versa, the server responses are transformed in messages for the client.

The security of Linux servers with a via network monitoring and controlling system

The third part of my plan is to try using an Internet proxy server. A proxy server is simply a server that forwards Internet traffic for you using the proxy's IP address and not yours.

TECHNOLOGY: Cookies, Web Profilers, Social Network Cartography, and Proxy Servers

ISA Server began life as the Microsoft Proxy Server and has slowly evolved into a full-featured web-caching and firewall server that includes several core security functions such as intrusion-detection capabilities and bandwidth control.

Microsoft Lines Up ISA Server Beta

Historically, enterprises have managed Internet access by means of proxy server software installed on general-purpose servers, and a large percentage of companies still do.