Posted by Business Wire on July 25, 2018:

SEATTLE -- F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) introduced new offerings that provide advanced access controls and dedicated SSL visibility with orchestration capabilities to help thwart today's most sophisticated cyber attacks. In addition, F5 Labs has published its 2018 Application Protection report, exploring the many different types of application-based threats that modern organizations face.

"Applications are everywhere, and increasingly interrelated, with many added capabilities inadvertently yielding new opportunities for attack," said Ram Krishnan, SVP and General Manager, Security at F5. "Our value proposition is simple: we give you the ability to deploy standalone or integrated security for all types of applications, environments, and use cases. Customers enjoy the versatility of world-class products, cloud-based solutions, support services, and F5's broad security capabilities that can protect applications better than anyone else in the industry."

F5 SSL Orchestrator: Unified Management of Encrypted Application Traffic

While most traffic and data handled by applications is now encrypted, many security stack service offerings (e.g., firewalls and IPS) are unable to efficiently process SSL encrypted traffic at the scale and speed businesses demand. Beyond mere SSL awareness and offload, F5 SSL Orchestrator provides policy-based orchestration capabilities across the full security service chain for any network topology, device, or application.

Orchestration on this level groups devices into services to intelligently decrypt and steer traffic, allowing for independent monitoring, load balancing, and scaling to adapt to changing network conditions and increasing traffic demands. This marks a vast improvement over the industry's legacy security model, where piecemeal inspection devices perform decryption independently, frequently leaving gaps for attackers.

As a dedicated security appliance delivering insight to mitigate threats traversing the network, SSL Orchestrator provides:

"App security is the definition of a moving target," said Clint Huffaker, Technical Solutions Architect at World Wide Technology. "Visibility is one of the biggest challenges organizations are facing today, and F5's SSL Orchestrator gives customers the ability to dynamically control and customize the flow of encrypted traffic through security service chains.

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