F5 Survey Shows Security Concerns Driving Rapid Adoption of Application Services
January 10 2017 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
For the first time, security surpasses
availability to become the number-one priority for application
deployment as organizations move to the cloud
F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) today announced the results of its
2017 State of Application Delivery report. The global customer
survey shows accelerating cloud adoption is creating increased
demand for security application services including WAF, DNSSEC, and
DDoS protection. As an increase in application services often
requires additional resources, respondents also indicated a shift
toward DevOps methodologies to gain operational efficiencies
through automation and programmability. This need for scalability
replaces speed to market as the prime driver of DevOps
adoption.
“This past year, not a week went by without some hack or
vulnerability making the headlines,” said Ryan Kearny, CTO at
F5. “And yet there is no sign that security breaches are
slowing businesses’ digital transformation—quite the opposite in
fact. This report shows how the sometimes-competing demands of
customer and data protection inform companies’ deployment of apps
and app services.”
In its third year, the State of Application Delivery report
examines the vital role application services play, enabling
enterprises to deploy applications faster, smarter, and safer. Over
2,000 IT, networking, application, and security pros from around
the world weighed in on application delivery topics ranging from
cloud adoption, to rising security challenges, to DevOps, SDN, and
the future of enterprise application services.
Survey Highlights
Survey responses came from around the globe, spanning industries
like government, financial services, technology, and education.
Respondents’ roles ranged from infrastructure, IT security,
application development, and DevOps to the executive suite. Key
takeaways include:
- Security is the number-one
priority, and the increasing sophistication of attacks is
the top challenge: Security teams are expanding beyond
traditional firewalls and the legacy enterprise perimeter as a
response to hackers increasingly targeting the application.
Globally, the top security services being planned for deployment
are DDoS mitigation (21 percent), DNSSEC protection (25 percent),
and Web Application Firewall services (20 percent). According to
the survey, companies—including those identifying as cloud-first
organizations—that are most confident in their ability to withstand
an application-level attack have a WAF installed.
- 2017 will usher in an era of cloud
expertise: It’s a multi-cloud world today, with four out of
five respondents adopting hybrid cloud, and nearly one-third (32
percent) of respondents stating they will purchase public cloud
IaaS solutions this year, up dramatically from 25 percent in 2016.
Furthermore, the more apps a company has deployed, the greater
motivation to reap the operational benefits of the cloud, with
respondents running the largest number of applications (3,000+)
reporting the highest percentage of apps in the cloud.
- The number of deployed app services
continues to rise: On average, organizations report that they
have 14 app services deployed today (up from an average of 11 app
services in 2016)—and they plan to deploy an average of 17 in the
next 12 months.
- Operational scale and
programmability rise to the top for DevOps: With increases in
app services and the continued expansion of cloud, organizations
are turning to automation and orchestration to scale operations
across environments. As a result, over half of respondents
now view API-enabled infrastructures and templates as important, up
from 31 percent and 22 percent last year, respectively. Scalability
and OpEx reduction remain the top two drivers for the use of SDN
frameworks, and companies are increasingly showing a tendency
toward standardization, with 39 percent relying on only one
framework in 2017, compared to 32 percent in 2016.
Additional Resources
- Download the full 2017 State of
Application Delivery report at f5.com/SOAD
- 2017 SOAD Overview – Video
Introduction
- 2017 SOAD: Security with a High
Probability of Cloud – F5 Blog Post
About F5
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) makes apps go faster, smarter, and safer for
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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