Load balancers play a crucial role in modern web architectures. In addition to managing the routing of traffic, they also perform TLS termination, server health checking and other critical management functions to make websites scalable and secure.

However, the same technology that improves operational efficiency comes with a potential security issue: HTTP request smuggling attacks. It is critical that IT leaders understand how these attacks work and arm themselves with the following steps to protect web environments from HTTP request smuggling.

Published July 2020 in SearchSecurity
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