Apr, 2010 : F5 Extends Application and Data Security to the Cloud
📅 - Company to provide BIG-IP solution capabilities delivering new security services for applications deployed in the cloud.
F5 Networks, Inc., a provider of Application Delivery Networking, recently announced enhanced BIG-IP solution capabilities delivering new security services for applications deployed in the cloud. The company says that application security provided by it, including BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager, BIG-IP Edge Gateway, and BIG-IP Application Security Manager, ensures that enterprise applications and data are safe even when deployed in the cloud. It adds that the new BIG-IP Version 10.2 software enhances its security offerings, enabling customers to lower infrastructure costs, optimize application access, and secure applications in the enterprise and the cloud.
The company explains that cloud environments can be key resources for IT teams leveraging enhanced scalability and lower expenses, but there are security concerns when it comes to moving organizations' sensitive applications and data into the cloud. With BIG-IP solutions, customers can assign policy-based access permissions based on user, location, device, and other variables. This enables organizations to extend context-aware access to corporate materials while keeping their most valuable assets secure whether the data is stored in the data center, internal cloud, or external cloud.
The company states that the BIG-IP v10.2 release introduces new security functionality throughout the BIG-IP product family. By unifying application delivery, security, optimization, and access control on a single platform, security capabilities can be extended across data center environments and in the cloud. It further states that its security solutions provide comprehensive application security, including packet filtering, port lockdown, attack protection, network/administrative isolation, protocol validation, dynamic rate limiting, SSL termination, access policy management, and much more.
The company avers that its security solutions and the new BIG-IP v10.2 enable customers to:
"What I love about the F5 solution is that it enables organizations to maintain their own security policies rather than adapt to those of a cloud provider and trust that they will keep those applications and user data secure," said Patrick McFadin, Director of Systems and Architecture at Hobsons. "With Global Traffic Manager and the BIG-IP Edge Gateway, organizations can maintain centralized control and provide all of their authentication services inside the firewall, and then, through secure connections, redirect a user to an application, regardless of where it's located - in the network or in the cloud. It lets organizations provide unified security across all of their applications."
"Malicious attackers get more and more aggressive every day, so it is important for us to protect our private corporate and customer information with the highest levels of security," said Brad Trankina, Director of Network and Information Systems at Human Kinetics. "F5's ASM is a great WAF and we are excited to see that protection from CSRF attacks is now so easy to configure with just a few clicks of the mouse."
"It's fashionable to pontificate about how security issues are holding back cloud computing, but unfortunately there is still more attention on industry rhetoric and not enough on providing solutions," said Jon Oltsik, Principal Analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group. "With these announcements, F5 is going beyond talking and taking a leading role in cloud security solutions. What's more, F5's solutions provide a bridge between internal security controls and the cloud. This will be especially attractive to highly-regulated security-centric industries like financial services, health care, and government organizations."
F5 Networks, Inc., a provider of Application Delivery Networking, recently announced enhanced BIG-IP solution capabilities delivering new security services for applications deployed in the cloud. The company says that application security provided by it, including BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager, BIG-IP Edge Gateway, and BIG-IP Application Security Manager, ensures that enterprise applications and data are safe even when deployed in the cloud. It adds that the new BIG-IP Version 10.2 software enhances its security offerings, enabling customers to lower infrastructure costs, optimize application access, and secure applications in the enterprise and the cloud.
The company explains that cloud environments can be key resources for IT teams leveraging enhanced scalability and lower expenses, but there are security concerns when it comes to moving organizations' sensitive applications and data into the cloud. With BIG-IP solutions, customers can assign policy-based access permissions based on user, location, device, and other variables. This enables organizations to extend context-aware access to corporate materials while keeping their most valuable assets secure whether the data is stored in the data center, internal cloud, or external cloud.
The company states that the BIG-IP v10.2 release introduces new security functionality throughout the BIG-IP product family. By unifying application delivery, security, optimization, and access control on a single platform, security capabilities can be extended across data center environments and in the cloud. It further states that its security solutions provide comprehensive application security, including packet filtering, port lockdown, attack protection, network/administrative isolation, protocol validation, dynamic rate limiting, SSL termination, access policy management, and much more.
The company avers that its security solutions and the new BIG-IP v10.2 enable customers to:
- Enhance Attack Protection and Safeguard Applications: BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM) is a flexible web application firewall (WAF) that not only protects against common vulnerabilities like those listed in the OWASP Top Ten, but can also be tailored to provide policy-based security for organizations' specific security needs. The new release of BIG-IP includes easy-to-implement protection from dangerous Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks.
- Simplify Management of Access Control for Applications in the Cloud: With BIG-IP Edge Gateway, enterprises can implement strong authentication, authorization, and encryption policies to make sure data is kept secure as it traverses the cloud.
- Improve Mobile and Remote User Experience: Adding to the current services of advanced roaming, domain detection, and automatic connection, new security services integrate the BIG-IP Edge Client solution with the Microsoft Windows logon process. By caching logon credentials the first time they are entered, mobile and remote users can seamlessly access applications via a common VPN model.
- Reduce Infrastructure Costs of Supporting Common Access Cards (CAC): BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager with the Advanced Client Authentication (ACA) module now supports Kerberos Protocol Transition. This capability can reduce the infrastructure required to allow multiple agencies who authenticate using CAC cards to access a shared application.
"What I love about the F5 solution is that it enables organizations to maintain their own security policies rather than adapt to those of a cloud provider and trust that they will keep those applications and user data secure," said Patrick McFadin, Director of Systems and Architecture at Hobsons. "With Global Traffic Manager and the BIG-IP Edge Gateway, organizations can maintain centralized control and provide all of their authentication services inside the firewall, and then, through secure connections, redirect a user to an application, regardless of where it's located - in the network or in the cloud. It lets organizations provide unified security across all of their applications."
"Malicious attackers get more and more aggressive every day, so it is important for us to protect our private corporate and customer information with the highest levels of security," said Brad Trankina, Director of Network and Information Systems at Human Kinetics. "F5's ASM is a great WAF and we are excited to see that protection from CSRF attacks is now so easy to configure with just a few clicks of the mouse."
"It's fashionable to pontificate about how security issues are holding back cloud computing, but unfortunately there is still more attention on industry rhetoric and not enough on providing solutions," said Jon Oltsik, Principal Analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group. "With these announcements, F5 is going beyond talking and taking a leading role in cloud security solutions. What's more, F5's solutions provide a bridge between internal security controls and the cloud. This will be especially attractive to highly-regulated security-centric industries like financial services, health care, and government organizations."
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