ATTENTION: K-12 IT professionals — F5’s industry-leading technologies are now eligible for E-Rate discounts! What is E-Rate? E-Rate is a government funded program that’s been around since the late 90’s and aims to get Internet access into schools & libraries who otherwise might not be able to afford it. In order for these entities to take advantage
What is FIPS 140-2? If you’ve done F5® work for the Federal government you’ve probably been exposed to the FIPS 140-2 standard – but F5 FIPS has been gaining traction in the private sector as well. Many financial, healthcare, and banking enterprises have adopted the FIPS standard. That’s because FIPS is a part of PCI
F5® has quietly grown into the leader of web application firewalls with their Application Security Manager™ (ASM®) module and their Advanced Web Application Firewall (AWAF). AWAF extends F5’s WAF with new features to combat fraudulent credential stuffing & bot mitigation, along with a whole slew of other new features. While the other “top dogs” were
As you may have known SSL died in 2015, largely due to the “Poodle” vulnerability, long live its successor TLS! What you may not know is a new version of TLS, version 1.3, has been approved and is going to force you to change a number of your network security practices. Most information out in
Many of us first discovered F5® because of their flagship LTM® & GTM™ products, but more recently the F5 firewalls have been making waves, namely their Web Application Firewall (WAF) a.k.a. the Application Security Manager™ (ASM®). Now, in conversation when you tell people you work with F5, more often than not they say “oh yeah
