F5 Introduces Standalone Security Products to Defend Against Targeted Attacks
June 15 2016 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
F5 expands security portfolio with
intelligent, context-based appliances focused on DDoS protection
and SSL orchestration
Today’s organizations are tasked to protect a growing number of
attack vectors. A rising number of exploits seek to simply
overwhelm servers with requests and deceptively use encryption to
target networks and applications in ways that traditional products
struggle to detect and defend. To better protect against emerging
threats, F5 is introducing two standalone products designed to help
customers quickly deploy dedicated security solutions. These
offerings provide quick, simple remediation with essential
visibility and actionable insights that eliminate industry ‘blind
spots’ and safeguard business assets and data.
F5® DDoS Hybrid Defender™ provides superior
infrastructure protection by combining multilayered DDoS defense
across network, session, and application layers to intelligently
integrate offsite cloud scrubbing in a convenient, all-in-one form
factor. This approach helps weed out illegitimate requests to keep
operations and sites running smoothly.
Highlights:
- Next-generation DDoS defense with
behavioral analysis to identify and mitigate attacks,
machine-learning to detect evasive threats or traffic anomalies,
and powerful automation capabilities to boost efficiency.
- On-demand cloud-based scrubbing in a
hybrid model, redirecting volumetric attack traffic seamlessly to
reduce overhead and dramatically improve network bandwidth
usage.
- Unmatched application inspection for
layer 7 attacks, with in-depth application threat discovery based
on data stream logic, aggregative signals from HTTP, and the
characteristics of TCP requests, transactions, and overall server
health.
- Leading performance and fastest
time-to-mitigation for attacks targeting the network, applications,
and IT infrastructure.
F5® SSL Orchestrator™ provides critical
visibility into industry blind spots created by the growing use of
encryption throughout enterprise networks. The product combines
industry-leading cryptographic capabilities with context-aware
dynamic service chaining to enhance enforcement capabilities,
heighten detection capabilities, and improve network operations and
orchestration.
Highlights:
- Centralized management of
encryption/decryption, traffic steering, and load distribution
services across all security layers to reduce TCO and improve
business continuity.
- Visibility into the gaps that SSL can
create for traditional security tools and overburdened firewalls,
with context-based intelligence and robust proxy-level control over
ciphers and protocols.
- Vastly improved insight into SSL
traffic across critical points in the attack flow, helping mitigate
the dangers of exploitation, callback, and data exfiltration
between services (common among advanced and persistent
threats).
- Native integration with a variety of
popular network security and advanced
threat management solutions to further reduce risk and
maximize the value of existing investments.
“Today’s increasingly destructive and disruptive attacks can
quickly undermine traditional security solutions,” said Karl
Triebes, EVP of Product Development and CTO at F5. “These new
appliances provide standalone functionality to quickly and
comprehensively address specific industry challenges. With a
breadth of cloud, software, and hardware offerings, F5 provides
compelling options to integrate security throughout evolving
network and application infrastructures in ways that best fit
organizational priorities, compliance mandates, and customer
needs.”
Availability
F5 DDoS Hybrid Defender will be available in June 2016. F5 SSL
Orchestrator will be available in the third quarter of calendar
year 2016. Please contact a local F5 sales office for additional
product and service availability information pertaining to specific
countries.
Additional Resources
- The Next Generation of DDoS Protection
is Hybrid – F5 Blog
- SSL Visibility for All – F5 DevCentral
Blog
- Defeating Modern DDoS Attacks with F5
DDoS Hybrid Defender – Overview
- Dynamic Service Chaining with F5 SSL
Orchestrator – Overview
About F5
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) provides solutions for an application world.
F5 helps organizations seamlessly scale cloud, data center,
telecommunications, and software-defined networking (SDN)
deployments to successfully deliver applications and services to
anyone, anywhere, at any time. F5 solutions broaden the reach of IT
through an open, extensible framework and a rich partner ecosystem
of leading technology and orchestration vendors. This approach lets
customers pursue the infrastructure model that best fits their
needs over time. The world’s largest businesses, service providers,
government entities, and consumer brands rely on F5 to stay ahead
of cloud, security, and mobility trends. For more information, go
to f5.com.
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and technologies.
F5, DDoS Hybrid Defender, SSL Orchestrator, and DevCentral are
trademarks or service marks of F5 Networks, Inc., in the U.S. and
other countries. All other product and company names herein may be
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