Proxies for Cybersecurity

While security professionals monitor cyber attacks and their perpetrators, cyber criminals do the opposite. They surveil all attempts to gather information about them and their methods to prevent potential protective measures. When threat actors detect unusual server loads from the same IP address, they can simply block it permanently. Thus, cybersecurity proxies are a critical component of security that empowers a large-scale data-gathering experience with anonymity and undetectability.

A proxy and a firewall act as protective barriers between a private network or a device and the internet. A firewall is a software or hardware that blocks unauthorized network and system access according to set rules. In contrast, a proxy server is a software or hardware with its own IP address that makes a request to access web resources on behalf of the user, essentially hiding the user's actual IP.