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). While the other “top dogs” were sleeping, F5 was diligently pouring resources into a more intelligent, easier to use, and more feature-rich WAF. However, as is the case with all

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