New solutions give customers the protection
and intelligence required to keep applications and user data
secure
F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) introduced security solutions that
provide visibility, context, and control to overcome today’s
evolving threats. In a digital-driven economy, applications deliver
business services for a variety of access points and locations,
opening up new risks and attack vectors—particularly as IT teams
extend security and encryption capabilities across cloud, data
center, and hybrid environments.
“Applications and data are among the most valuable assets of any
organization,” said Ryan Kearny, CTO at F5. “Without reliable
applications, you essentially halt customer discovery,
transactions, and revenue. To safeguard the customer experience, F5
advocates an application-centric approach where security, access,
and identity management are treated as intrinsic parts of
application development and deployment. Our new solutions have been
designed to holistically address the impact of emerging threats and
shifts within the broader IT industry.”
The majority of web traffic is now encrypted, meaning attempts
to address application security via traditional methods alone are
severely limited. As a result of widespread encryption—including
its nefarious use as part of complex, targeted attacks—protecting
customers and data now requires deep insight into application
traffic and user behavior, sophisticated threat intelligence and
response strategies, and practical access controls for applications
and data. With these elements in mind, F5 is adding to the
company’s comprehensive security solutions.
- Dedicated protection with F5’s new
Herculon™ security product line
Combining the strength of F5’s standalone security offerings
with purpose-built hardware and a simplified user experience, the
new Herculon product family lets security administrators quickly
deploy solutions that overcome specific application security
obstacles and threats. Herculon products are designed to provide
heightened visibility and control around application behavior to
solve difficult industry challenges in a straightforward, easy to
deploy manner. The first two entries in the Herculon portfolio are
being introduced today.
- Herculon SSL
Orchestrator™ provides improved insight for the
visibility gaps created by the growing use of encryption for
application data. With purpose-built hardware for SSL/TLS, this
product provides leading cryptographic capabilities, context-aware
dynamic service chaining, and native integrations. Herculon SSL
Orchestrator can significantly increase performance—and decrease
infrastructure costs—across the security stack by eliminating the
need for redundant encryption and decryption capabilities. A
‘defense in-depth’ strategy is employed to enhance detection,
enforcement, and orchestration with support from a rich ecosystem
of security vendors.
- Herculon DDoS Hybrid
Defender™ gives customers a multilayered defense against
volumetric and pervasive DDoS attacks by integrating
high-performance hardware with the intelligence of offsite cloud
scrubbing via F5 Silverline. This hybrid approach improves time to
mitigation in scenarios where website and application availability
are crucial to customer interactions and profitability. The product
can be deployed in-line or in out-of-band mode, and provides
comprehensive DDoS coverage through behavioral analytics,
sub-second attack mitigation, and visibility into
sophisticated application layer attacks.
- Cloud-based application security as
a service with Silverline® WAF
Express™
While web application firewall (WAF) capabilities are
fundamental to an enterprise organization’s digital presence, the
industry is short on experts that possess the skills required to
effectively initiate, provision, and scale app protection services.
In addition, developers rolling out apps across cloud environments
show increasing interest in an ‘application security as a service’
approach to attack mitigation. F5 is introducing a pre-configured,
self-service offering that takes advantage of its cloud-based
Silverline platform. Customers can easily select which applications
WAF services are applied to, while F5 manages security policies
behind the scenes to protect apps from a wide range of threats
including OWASP attacks, parameter tampering, and bots. In this
model, F5’s Security Operations Center experts engage and maintain
policies, including monitoring, app attack mitigation, and
analytics for applications hosted in the public or private cloud,
as well as the data center. A companion blog post provides more
information about Silverline WAF Express.
- Additional threat monitoring and
remediation for better security decisions
Along with its easy to deploy solutions, F5 is adding Security
Incident Response Team™ (SIRT™) services that provide additional
support and visibility if an issue arises, and throughout the
security product lifecycle. Available to all F5 security customers,
these professional service capabilities help organizations quickly
respond to application and website attacks and anomalies. SIRT has
been designed to identify threats and deliver an immediate response
to mitigate or neutralize potentially harmful activities and
protect business operations. The services team augments F5’s
solution portfolio with added monitoring, analysis, post-incident
reports, and recommended best practices to effectively respond to
cybercrime attempts, and to help make sure that websites,
applications, and users stay secure and connected.
- Valuable analysis of the security
threat landscape from F5 Labs™
To complement its products and services, F5 has assembled a team
of security industry experts and researchers to gather global
threat intelligence, analyze application threats, and publish
related findings. For enhanced awareness, visibility, and context,
F5 augments the knowledge of its experts with independently
gathered security data to provide actionable guidance and
commentary on current cyberattacks and emerging trends. This focus
area within F5 gives the company a more visible platform to weigh
in on security topics affecting the broader IT industry, with
specific insights from F5’s Mike Convertino, as well as other
industry CISOs and partners. F5 Labs also provides opportunities
for threat-related intelligence and learnings to be incorporated
into the company’s development roadmap, along with customized
innovations via F5’s programmable technologies and DevCentral
community.
Supporting Quotes
“In today’s digital-driven marketplace, our applications are our
lifeblood,” said Kausar Mukeri, CISO at Invest Bank - UAE. “F5’s
deep experience in application delivery and security services puts
them in a strategic place in our network, helping us protect our
critical applications and ensuring they are safe, secure, and
available.”
“Vendors will do well to offer visibility and application
protection services in a variety of deployment scenarios, from
traditional data center environments to software, services, and
cloud-based models,” said Jon Oltsik, Senior Principal Analyst at
the Enterprise Strategy Group. “Beyond products and services,
customers should also consider industry presence and partnership
ecosystems when making security purchasing decisions and building
out their digital capabilities. Complete IT security—in as much as
it’s feasible—is a multi-vendor proposition. Today’s announcement
from F5 is a good example of a vendor approaching security topics
from multiple angles to better suit individual customers and their
specific pain points.”
Additional quotes from F5’s partner ecosystem supporting today’s
news can be found in a dedicated section at the close of this press
release.
Availability
F5’s Herculon products, Silverline WAF Express, Security
Operations Center offerings, and Security Incident Response Team
services are available now. Please contact a local F5 sales office
for additional product and service availability information
pertaining to specific countries. For details on F5 Labs threat
research and analysis, visit f5.com/labs.
Additional Resources
- Securing the New Perimeter – F5 Blog
Post
- Welcome to CISO to CISO – F5 Labs
Article
About F5
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the world’s largest businesses, service providers, governments, and
consumer brands. F5 delivers cloud and security solutions that
enable organizations to embrace the application infrastructure they
choose without sacrificing speed and control. For more information,
go to f5.com. You can also follow @f5networks on
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Additional Quotes from F5’s Partner Ecosystem
“F5 Networks and FireEye can now offer customers dedicated SSL
decryption functionality and detection with more visibility across
their networks for a more robust, turnkey security solution.”Ken
Gonzalez, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at
FireEye
“Forcepoint sees the introduction of the F5 Herculon product
family as a welcome innovation in giving organizations insight and
control over web-centric applications. We look forward to our
continued partnership with F5 and their use of Forcepoint web
security technologies to help organizations guard against advanced
threats.”Kris Lamb, VP and General Manager, Cloud Security at
Forcepoint
“Gemalto is pleased to broaden our integrated solutions with F5
Networks and deliver enhanced data security capabilities for the
new F5 Herculon dedicated security products. Customers’
applications and data are constantly under the threat of attack,
and the best way to protect sensitive assets in today’s digital
world is to attach security directly on the data itself and the
users who access the data through strong encryption and user
authentication. Gemalto’s SafeNet Luna Hardware Security Modules
and SafeNet Authentication Service ensure the highest levels of
FIPS and PCI compliance for key, certificate and identity
protection with F5’s application access, SSL visibility
and protection solutions—from the cloud to the data center to
the network.”Lionel Merrien, Vice President of Business Development
at Gemalto
“F5 Herculon security devices are a great example of how
companies are utilizing FPGA acceleration technology to optimize
unique performance profiles for features such as DDoS, application
awareness, and traffic management. We look forward to further
collaboration with F5 to enable its security appliance solutions
with FPGAs supporting wirespeed datapath acceleration, combined
with Intel® Xeon® processors for software flexibility and agility,
to help address continuously evolving security threats.”Erhaan
Shaikh, VP Business Units, Intel PSG
“Enterprise customers gain maximum value out of their security
investments by deploying in-line. Ixia’s IxVision architecture
combined with F5’s Herculon security products secures the network
against an ever-dynamic threat while ensuring that it’s both
scalable and resilient.”Scott Westlake, VP of Alliances at Ixia
“Secure, available applications are critical for every company
in the digital economy. F5’s experience and focus in application
delivery and security make the F5 web application firewall, a
pre-configured virtual service in the Microsoft Azure Security
Center, a great choice for companies looking to meet compliance
requirements while protecting their web application and data from
threats.”Ryan McGee, director, security product marketing,
Microsoft Corp.
“Okta provides the market leading identity management as a
service offering that our customers use to help secure application
access for their cloud and mobile environments. Our integration
with F5’s security products enables our joint customers to securely
provide access to more traditional on-premises applications for
users inside or outside their firewall so the right people can
access the right apps at the right time in the most secure and
efficient way. F5 is a known leader in security and will continue
to be a key partner for us in securing our joint customers’ IT
infrastructure.”Eric Berg, Chief Product Officer at Okta
“With the integration of F5 products and Ping Identity’s
PingAccess, we are enabling enterprise customers to modernize their
access management infrastructure, be more agile and bring together
cloud and on-premises application security under a single
architecture. With F5, we can extend the value of existing network
investments, and address the challenges of mobile applications, API
security and migrating legacy apps to IaaS.”Loren Russon, vice
president of product management for Ping Identity
“As organizations continue their digital transformation, Thales
continues its long-standing partnership with F5 to provide high
assurance security solutions to customers worldwide. The
integration of Thales nShield hardware security modules (HSMs) with
the new F5 Herculon dedicated security devices provides a proven
and trusted solution for securing SSL traffic with FIPS-3
certifications. Thales is providing a trusted and scalable solution
in this new ecosystem by securing information wherever it is
created, shared, or stored.”Cindy Provin, Chief Strategy and
Marketing Officer at Thales e-Security
“Encrypted SSL is fast becoming cybercriminals’ attack vector of
choice and enterprises that fail to inspect encrypted traffic are
increasingly at risk of a serious security breach or an encrypted
DDoS attack. Unfortunately, these problems are going to get a lot
worse before they get better because cloud services and IoT devices
typically use SSL encryption by default. Our integration with F5
Herculon products allows mutual customers to immediately use
real-time, scalable key and certificate intelligence to
automatically inspect all SSL traffic. This makes it easy to
protect against network attacks that hide in encrypted traffic and
dramatically simplifies encrypted DDoS attack protection.”Kevin
Bocek, vice president of security strategy and threat intelligence
for Venafi
“As IT security teams expand beyond protecting data center
infrastructure to protecting the applications within those data
centers, we see the application becoming the new unit of security
focus. F5’s historical focus on application services makes our
partnership a logical fit and enables us to collaborate in solving
customer security needs.”Teri Bruns, vice president, Partner
Services at VMware
“Webroot and F5 Networks have a long history of collaboration,
and we are excited to support F5’s latest security
innovations. Both companies share a strong commitment to being
at the forefront of solving the most complex cybersecurity
challenges our customers face and keeping them secure.”Hal Lonas,
Chief Technology Officer, Webroot
“WhiteHat Security and F5 have been aligned for a long time
around a shared commitment to securing digital business at the
application layer. The integration of our WhiteHat Sentinel™
application security platform with F5 combines dynamic
identification and verification of vulnerabilities with the control
and policy-based remediation capabilities of a web application
firewall. Moving forward, we’re excited to continue our work
together at the product level, but also to find opportunities for
collaboration between the security experts in our Threat Research
Center and the new F5 Labs.”Craig Hinkley, CEO, WhiteHat
Security
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