From keeping up with constituent demands for more streamlined digital experiences to mitigating threats of evolving cybersecurity attacks, government IT department professionals are often stretched thin in their daily efforts.

Protecting networks against volumetric Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks is challenging enough, but for software-based infrastructure the challenge is even greater. In the past stopping multi-gigabit DDoS attacks has required dedicated network security hardware, but recently WWT was asked to test a virtual DDoS solution from F5 powered by the Intel SmartNIC FPGA.

Applications have changed, and so has the way we think about managing applications.