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Application Level Gateway (ALG)

Term · Cybersecurity · MLC-T-CYB-000185

Application Level Gateways (ALGs) are application specific translation agents that allow an application (like VOIP) on a host in one address realm to connect to its counterpart running on a host in different realm transparently. An ALG may interact with NAT to set up state, use NAT state information, modify application specific payload and perform whatever else is necessary to get the application running across disparate address realms.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-CYB-000185
FieldCybersecurity
AbbreviationALG
ReferencesNIST SP 800-58; NIST CSRC Glossary
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-CYB-000185",
  "term": "Application Level Gateway (ALG)",
  "field": "Cybersecurity",
  "definition": "Application Level Gateways (ALGs) are application specific translation agents that allow an application (like VOIP) on a host in one address realm to connect to its counterpart running on a host in different realm transparently. An ALG may interact with NAT to set up state, use NAT state information, modify application specific payload and perform whatever else is necessary to get the application running across disparate address realms.",
  "abbreviation": "ALG",
  "references": [
    "NIST SP 800-58",
    "NIST CSRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/cybersecurity/application-level-gateway-alg/"
}

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