1. A method comprising: running an application level firewall on a hardware computing device in response to initiation of a user session to provide application level or higher analysis of network traffic and to utilize context information shared between the application level firewall and one or more applications to be used during the user session to perform network and application security operations with the application level firewall and at least one of the one or more applications to make security evaluations; receiving, with the application level firewall, a response to provide information from at least one application to at least one client hardware computing device, the response having at least metadata to be used to update the firewall context information; updating the context information using the application level firewall based on the metadata; and transmitting, with the application level firewall, the response to the client hardware computing device.