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Why is your network firewall falling short?

Your network is secure, your servers are safe, and you've done everything to protect your network, corporate assets and intellectual property. You have a network firewall, so your perimeter is secure. Your network devices and servers are only accessible through your corporate VPN via two-factor authentication, and all external ports are blocked to non-authenticated traffic.

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F5 Gives VARs An Edge

F5 Networks is overhauling its channel strategy, now pledging to turn every sales lead over to a partner before its own field-sales force.

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F5 Mixes SSL VPN With Load Balancing

F5 integrates its SSL VPN gear with its load balancing, traffic management hardware.

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User Gets Flexible Compression

BIG-IP allows better compression control over application traffic.

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F5, Citrix Get Apps Up To Speed

F5 introducing Web application firewall module for its application switches.

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F5 Builds Firewall Into App Management Devices

The Application Security Module (ASM) provides users with an application-layer firewall that's designed to protect Web-based systems against buffer overflow attacks, compromises of access-control mechanisms, worms and other problems.

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F5 Integrates Security Into Application Switch Line

The new module adds integrated application firewall to traffic management platform.

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Protecting Applications From Dangerous Traffic

BIG-IP Application Security Module offers a uniqueness not commonly found in other application protection systems: It does not rely on a signature database for protection. Instead, it focuses on keeping out unacceptable traffic.

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Peak Performance

Solution providers and vendors alike are saying 'Optimize This' as a performance-boosting WAN technology proves it can really deliver.

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F5 begins living up to the promise of its architectural makeover

Having introduced TMOS, a traffic management operating system that provides a foundation for multiple types of application delivery modules and extensible hardware support for demanding operations, F5 Networks has begun delivering applications in modular form. The new Application Security Module is a makeover of the MagniFire TrafficShield application-specific firewall.

 

F5 Plans to Buy App Accelerator Swan Labs

F5 Networks on Tuesday announced its planned acquisition of WAN optimization and application acceleration provider Swan Labs in a $43 million cash deal.

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F5 Snaps Up Swan Labs

Swan Labs Corp. has become the latest wide-area network (WAN) specialist to get snapped up by a big-name data center vendor, with F5 Networks Inc. stumping up $43 million for the San Jose, Calif.-based startup.

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Understanding the Basics of Risk Management

Most people wouldn't know security if it bit them on the nose and they haven't wasted many hours of their lives attempting to mitigate that very problem.

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F5 Launches Optimization Portal

F5 Networks wants to help customers understand how technology can optimize the performance of Web applications, so the company is hosting an online resource designed to let customers test compression, acceleration and caching technologies for free.

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F5 CEO Talks Layer 4-7 Growth

F5 CEO John McAdam recently spoke with Network World Senior Editor Phil Hochmuth about where the vendor stands in the ever-shifting Layer 4-7/application acceleration market.

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Power and Policy

Adding Jet power to the WAN.

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Swan Revamps WAN/WAFS Kit

Swan Labs Corp. has taken the next step in its evolution -- and upped the ante against a key rival.

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WANjet Optimizes, Accelerates, Shapes

Swan Labs' new WAN appliances combine techniques to save bandwidth and improve performance.

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Swan Labs Bolsters WAN Traffic Shapers

New software keeps data in local memory.

 

Application Acceleration Gets Checkered Flag for Performance

As interest in the technology continues to heat up, application acceleration/WAN optimization vendors are launching new wares that boost performance, deliver new encryption capabilities and expand the range of applications that can be improved.

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Nothing But 'Net

SSL VPNs provide The Sports Authority, and a growing number of enterprises, with cheaper secure remote connectivity. Will they eventually slam dunk IPSec?

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Security Focuses on Application Layer

F5 Networks' chief executive explains how traffic management tools improve security.

 

F5's McAdam Talks Big-IP Success

Q&A: President and CEO John McAdam says F5 has been able to compete against giants like Cisco and Nortel because his team has "always seen that market as driven by functionality."

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F5 Appliance Boosts End-to-End Performance Over The WAN

Company claims device increases end user performance up to five times, improves bandwidth efficiency by up to 400%, and dramatically offloads server processing.

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F5 Unveils Application Accelerator

F5 Networks introduced performance-leading application acceleration and optimization capabilities designed to speed end-to-end user performance over the WAN and significantly reduce organizations' IT infrastructure costs.

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F5 Fires Up Powerful SSL VPN Solution

The FirePass 4100 appliance from F5 Networks is an impressive and powerful SSL VPN solution. It supports clustering environments up to 10 nodes, allowing up to 20,000 concurrent users-2,000 concurrent users per node-and secure Web-based remote access to corporate applications and desktops.

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A Gear Maker Strikes Gold

SwanSome small tech outfits are noteworthy because of their business strategy, others for the companies they compete against. F5 Networks (FFIV) is known for both.

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Sorting Through the Hype of Ubiquitous Secure Remote Access and SSL VPNs

Three reasons why ubiquitous secure remote access will never, or more probably shouldn't ever, happen - technology, security and business requirements.

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Web Application Vulnerabilities

A enterprises become more tightly locked down at the network level and continue to put more information on the Web, application-level attacks will become increasingly common.

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F5's BIG-IP® Wins Editor's Choice Award

Our parent company needed a new Layer 7 switch, and we needed a testing scenario. The result was a joint review of content switches from four top names. These devices can dig deep into payloads and have made strides in configurability. See which won our Editor's Choice--and which company received a purchase order from CMP Media.

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Fine-Tuning of the Internet

Companies in the network solutions industry are paving the way for a host of new Internet services and working to make the Web faster and more secure.

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SSL VPNs Come of Age

We see how six leading appliances measure up to one another and to IPSec.

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More CIOs Give SSL VPNs a Green Light

Analysts say SSL VPNs are better suited to the needs of today's growing and increasingly mobile remote workforce.

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F5 Adds Speed to Switches

Operating system gets upgrade.

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F5 Aims Firepass at SMBs

F5 is introducing an SSL VPN appliance called the Firepass 600, designed for small and midsize businesses.

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F5 Debuts Remote Access Platform For SMBs

The new FirePass 600 platform, which provides secure remote access to company networks via a Web browser, supports up to 25 concurrent user sessions and hundreds of users.

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F5 Ignites Competition With Updated FirePass VPN

The Seattle-based VPN vendor released its latest high-end secure remote access product for companies, and a new low-end SSL VPN that promises enterprise performance in a product priced for businesses with smaller budgets.

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F5 In Perimeter Play

F5 Networks plan to unveil perimeter security devices this week.

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Web Application Security For All

New Web application security products are packaging the expertise of consultants into software tools and appliances.

 

F5 Launches New Big Switch

F5 Networks Inc. this week rolls out a high-end version of its Big-IP layers 4-7 switch and updated software that company officials said offers unprecedented speed and a boost in performance.

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F5 Offers Higher Margins Through 'Sweet 16' Promo

F5 Networks recently revamped its channel strategy with a new deal-registration program that rewards solution providers for finding new security business.

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FirePass 4100 Series is Information Security's January Hotpic

The FirePass 4100 Series SSL VPN provides broad, browser-based application access across a variety of platforms.

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Schools Improve Bandwidth

Students have fast, reliable Internet access, thanks to a traffic-management device.

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F5's BigIP 6400 Version 9 Wins SearchNetworking.com's Product of the Year

Judges give product top scores in functionality department.

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F5's FirePass Controller v5.2 Takes Gold as Product of the Year

FirePass offers easy integration and network access support to any IP application across multiple platforms.

 

F5 Networks CEO Sees Steady Growth Continuing In FY 2004

Seattle's F5 Networks Inc., which reported sequential increases in revenue and profits every quarter in its 2004 fiscal year and is poised to do the same in fiscal 2004.

 

F5 Offers One-Stop Appliance Service

With Version 9, F5 Networks Inc. has overhauled its familiar Big-IP line with new hardware and software to provide the bounty of services that companies used to get from several distinct appliances.

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F5 Networks Makes SSL VPNs Easy

Updated FirePass 1000 box simplifies browser-based remote access to applications.

 

Japan's Leading Systems Integrator Selects F5 Networks' FirePass® Product for Its Flagship SSL VPN Offering

CTC and F5 Networks sign distribution partnership, building upon CTC's success in delivering security products and services to enterprises and service providers.

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The Sports Authority Hits A Home Run With Remote Access Solution

FirePass Controller gave the retailer the network and application protection it was looking for.

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Choose Your SSL Vendor Wisely, Says Meta

Customers should consider that the vendor they choose might not be around in a year or two.

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F5 Appliance Extends Remote Access

F5 wheeling out new hardware that lets more remote users securely connect simultaneously to corporate networks than past iterations of its product.

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F5 Fuses Firewall & VPN

F5 unveiling new high-end FirePass SSL VPN device combined with its first TrafficShield application firewall.

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F5 Rolls Out New Firewall And SSL VPN

Products are designed to offer application-level protection and better security for wireless, DSL, cable, and dial-up access.

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SSL VPN Firms Talk Up Access 'Everywhere'

Product upgrades that aim to drive the goal of making secured remote network access ubiquitous.

 

Software Will Be The Future of Networking

Approaching the management of application-specific traffic through software rather than hardware can allow fine-tuning for optimum performance.

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F5 Networks Nabs Exec From Rival Foundry

F5 Networks Inc. of Seattle has nabbed a respected technologist from one of its competitors.

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F5 Offers Integrated Approach To Web Traffic Management

F5 Networks launchs new software and hardware aimed at securing and improving the performance of Web and legacy applications.

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Traffic Management Shifting Lanes

F5, Redline, Radware offer new products.

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F5 Jams New Tools Into Traffic Manager

The many new mechanisms to secure and speed up applications running on networks are heading for consolidation that should make it easier and less expensive to deliver the kind of performance end users want.

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F5 Redefines Big-IP Line With Buffalo Jump

F5 Networks Inc. will next week introduce the long-touted "Buffalo Jump" series of internet traffic management appliances, saying it has rebuilt the platform around a new architecture it has called the Traffic Management Operating System.

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Making A Healthy Move Away From IPsec VPN

How one healthcare organization dealt with the problem of remote access security.

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Web-Based Server Gives Physicians Remote Access To Data

Remote access system allows employees, vendors, and patients to view applications from any Web-enabled device, including PCs and PDAs.

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F5 Acquires MagniFire

MagniFire is a technology leader in the web application firewall market and is recognized as a visionary in Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Firewalls, 2H03.

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F5 Acquires Web Security Firm

F5 Networks is preparing to battle bigger networking companies like Cisco Systems, as it continues to add new security products to its portfolio.

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F5 Acquires Web Security Firm, Launches Security Business Unit

The Seattle-based application traffic management company agreed to acquire MagniFire, a Web application firewall vendor, in a $29 million cash transaction.

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F5 Buys Israeli Firm on the Road to Montreal

F5 Networks pays $29m in cash, to broaden its web perimeter security product line from access-oriented SSL VPNs to protection-oriented web firewalls.

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F5 Buys Magnifire For $29 Million

Purchase of firewall company will enable F5's architecture to spot attacks on Web-based applications.

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F5 Buys Magnifire for $29 million - NetworkWorldFusion

The company will add MagniFire's TrafficShield security appliance to its Application Traffic Management architecture, allowing companies to spot attacks on Web-based applications, F5 said in a statement.

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F5 Networks Acquires Leading Web Security Company

F5 Executes On Its Promise Of Delivering Enterprise Application Security Through Acquisition Of MagniFire WebSystems.

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F5 Networks Picks Up Another Security Start-up

F5 Networks is preparing to battle bigger networking companies like Cisco Systems, as it continues to add new security products to its portfolio.

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Secure Remote Access for Online Users - Product Analysis

F5 Networks supplies products that provide reliable solutions that ensure high degrees of availability and security.

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Finding a Home for Application Security

Although there are several alternatives for where to conduct application security in an enterprise, there is one logical location: traffic-management and application switches.

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10 Best Bet Technologies

From presence to Ultra Wideband, Network Magazine picks the technologies that will transform your network over the next five years.

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F5 Networks Posts Record Sales

F5 Networks pushs second-quarter revenue to a record $40.6 million and beat Wall Street's profit expectations.

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F5 Brings Developers, Customers Together

Program boasts online marketing, price breaks, technical assistance.

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F5 Ignites Channel Program Support

F5 Networks last week unveiled enhancements to its channel program in support of its flagship FirePass SSL VPN solution.

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Stay Connected On The Road

FirePass Controller lets employees, customers and partners securely and reliably access authorized applications from any Web-enabled device, from any location.

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Key Benefits of Adding Traffic Management Software To Blade Servers

A blade system without blade controller software would be like Kennedy airport without air traffic control.

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Remote Network Access ... Without The Headaches

Integrator Milestone Systems cuts manufacturing company's network maintenance and administration costs with a clientless VPN (virtual private network).

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MagniFire Updates Web Infrastructure Security Product

MagniFire Websystems plans to ship an updated security gateway appliance that features easier setup and stronger protection.

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MagniFire Updates Web Infrastructure Security Product - CRN

MagniFire Websystems plans to ship an updated security gateway appliance that features easier setup and stronger protection.

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Arsenal Of Security Tools Debuts At Demo Conference

MagniFire Websystems' version 2.5 of Traffic Shield protects Web applications.

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DEMO 2004 Reflects IT Security Concerns

Document security and guarding applications rule show.

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MagniFire Updates Web Gateway

MagniFire WebSystems Inc. has released an updated version of its TrafficShield Web application gateway appliance that includes new security features and easier setup.

 

MagniFire upgrades TrafficShield Firewall For Web App Protection

TrafficShield 2.5 introduces key features that make it a comprehensive and user-friendly web security gateway solution.

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Do You Believe in Magic Quadrants?

By any measure, Gartner's vendor-ranking system has made its mark.

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F5 Networks' Firepass Accelerates Remote Access, Cuts Overhead

Remote access has become a vital necessity in business.

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Array Networks Falters Where F5 Flies In SSL VPN Standoff

Array Networks falters where F5 flies in SSL VPN standoff.

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F5 Eyes Bigger SSL-VPN Share

F5 Networks is getting ready to shake up the fast-growing Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) segments of the virtual private networks (VPN) market.

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F5 Networks Builds Acquisition War Chest

F5 Networks recently completed a $120.3 million stock offering to increase its flexibility to make potential future acquisitions.

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Large Accounts, Security Concerns Drive F5, CEO Says

Revenue is expected to increase again in the 2004 fiscal first quarter.

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Integrate the Network With .NET

Achieve high availability, security, and faster application development for your Web services.

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F5 Ready To Buy Rather Than Sell

F5 Networks Inc. is looking to make acquisitions that will give the Seattle company a larger share of the network-traffic management and security markets.

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Crankin' Up The Heat: New Application Firewalls

New Web application firewalls give you the chance to burn Port 80 hackers.

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Failure Was Not An Option

Combining blade server technology with software creates a unified computing platform.

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MagniFire Introduces Web Application Security Appliance

MagniFire Websystems this week introduced a web application security appliance designed for financial services companies.

 

FirePass VPN Controller Taps SSL

F5 Networks Inc. on Monday will try to put a stake in the heart of IP Sec as a client-side VPN technology with a new alternative that delivers greater flexibility and control.

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F5 Rolls Out Evaluation Program To Partners

Traffic management vendor F5 Networks Tuesday launched a new program aimed at putting low-cost evaluation units in the hands of solution providers.

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Load-Balancing Devices Grow Up

While layer 4-7 switch vendors have been loading features onto their boxes, a second set oof smaller players has focused on WAN traffic management.

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Layer-7 Load Balancers Pack New Punch

Next-generation switches combine layer-7 intelligence and security to optimize the data center.

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MagniFire Introduces TrafficShield

Product uses security logic to protect Web applications and the Web infrastructure from both known and unknown attacks.

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MagniFire Launches Company, Takes Aim At Channel Strategy

MagniFire broadenS its horizons beyond its European operations to officially fire-up its operations in New York.

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F5 Networks Expand Their Capabilities

F5 will be delivering products that create "application aware networks" to enable customers to direct traffic based on their exact business requirements.

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California Gets Strict On Privacy

A new law in the Golden State requires companies with even a single California customer to report any personal data breach to the affected parties, or be subject to civil penalties.

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MagniFire Wants to Secure Your Web Apps

MagniFire Websystems has just launched TrafficShield, an "appliance" designed to secure Web applications at the application level.

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Magnifire TrafficShield

MagniFire is the first to protect web based applications and infrastructure with the same comprehensiveness and efficiency of a network firewall protecting the network infrastructure.

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MagniFire Secures Web Apps

TrafficShield, uses positive security logic to protect web applications and the web infrastructure behind them from both known and unknown attacks.

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Basel Committee Calls For Better E-banking Security Management

The rapid growth of e-banking in recent years has created a wealth of new banking products and services, but has also increased banks' exposure to financial and legal risks.

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Committee Calls For Better E-banking Management

An influential international banking committee issued a report Tuesday calling for better security and management of electronic banking by the world's financial institutions.

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Online Banking In SA Was A Time-bomb Waiting To Go Off

South African bank Absa has been criticised for its handling of a series of raids its Internet banking service that have seen hundreds of thousands of rand disappearing from its customers' accounts.

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Disaster Recovery With Global Area Traffic Management

From power outages to terrorist threats, providing site redundancy along with the ability to immediately shift user traffic to those backup sites is a critical step for organizations deploying their mission critical Web services.

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Online Commerce Is More Secure Than It Ever Was

Many people still believe their personal information is at greater risk online than off. That simply isn't true.

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Application Firewalls 'Good Enough' For Web Services

Security concerns are still one of the main reasons customers are holding back on Web services deployments.

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Protect Web Applications from Abuse and Misuse

Companies deploy B2B applications and e-commerce sites without considering the underlying security of the application code.

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Balancing Act

When real estate listing service NWMLS switched to multihoming, it found that a load-balancing solution was also necessary.

 

F5 and Consera Map Apps on Servers

F5 Networks Inc. and startup Consera Software Inc. both are rolling out new and enhanced software designed to help corporations more easily manage, monitor and provision their server infrastructures.

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Clientless VPN

The difference between uRoam's FirePass and competitive offerings, is its ability to deliver on that promise via multiple hardware platforms.

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F5 Bests Radware In WAN-link Manager Duel

Link Controller flies through tests while LinkProof flounders.

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URoam Upgrades SSL VPN Appliance

Version 3.5 offers greater security and control for IT managers.

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Week in Security

Network Associates' troubles, Symantec fights spam.

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SAP Selects uRoam's Newly Released FirePass 3.5 Software

uRoam announced the availability of FirePass software release 3.5 for the FirePass 1000/4000 server, an SSL VPN appliance.

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URoam Policies Restrict Remote Access

Company upgrades software on SSL-based remote-access box.

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URoam Plans Clientless VPN Software

URoam plans late this month to release software for its VPN appliance to allow users to access a network without a specialized client.

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NWMLS and F5 Networks Provide Faster Connectivity to MLS Data

Application traffic management key to Web services.

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Preventing SQL Injections

Several steps that you can take to reduce the possibility of a SQL injection attack against your database.

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Test Center: Carrying a Bigger Load

F5 Networks beefs up its BIG-IP load balancer to take on a greater security role.

 

F5 BIG-IP 520 Server Appliance 4.5

Active load balancing puts applications in control.

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Hacker Insurance Set To Rocket

Value of hacker policies still unclear though, warn analysts.

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Patching Negligence Can Get You Sued

Downstream liability is all about the liability an enterprise could incur if its unsecured systems are used as part of a distributed denial-of-service attack.

 

MacReport Interview With John McAdam

F5 is a leading provider of Application Traffic Management solutions designed to improve the availability, performance and security of mission-critical Internet-based servers and applications.

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Market Drivers For E-Business Defense Technology

Prospects for technologies that protect online businesses from external attack have ignited high hopes, but this nascent market has been slow to develop.

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Major Changes for Big-IP

F5 Networks has rewritten its Big-IP OS and introduced application-traffic management, a new concept in load-balancing to make those tasks possible.

 

Big-IP Delves Deep Into Data

F5 Networks Inc.'s Big-IP 4.5 joins a growing list of products that offer to move security, high availability, and other connection and user decisions away from servers and applications and into special-purpose appliances.

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F5 Balances Blade Loads

The F5's Big-IP Blade Controller software, which installs directly onto one of the blades in a rack, is designed to be an integral piece of the blade ecosystem.

 

F5 Spreads Load Balancing Across ISPs

F5 Networks Inc. will extend its lead in link load balancing technology this week with new options for enterprises looking to safeguard their connections to increasingly complex networks.

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Under Control

Route control customers say they're experiencing unexpected benefits.

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Doing Data Detail

F5's latest iteration of its Big-IP product line builds on an already great load balancer.

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Dow Jones News

F5 Networks hopes its next-generation Internet traffic management software will strengthen its position against rival Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO).

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F5 Enters Deep Packet Fray

If there is a market for application and content-aware switching, F5 Networks will be amongst the first know.

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F5 Revs Up Big-IP Load Balancing

F5 Revs Up Big-IP Load Balancing.

 

F5 Unveils New Web Traffic Management Technology

Latest version of "BIG-IP" allows network operators to install a system that will optimize application Internet traffic.

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New Switch Improves IP Application Management

BIG-IP software, adding the ability to manage data for any IP-based application over a variety of newer network protocols.

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Link Load Balancers Smooth Web Traffic

As organizations move to the Internet to deliver their business-critical applications, maintaining only one link to the public network represents a single point of failure.

 

F5 Sharpens 'Blade' In Search For Profitability

F5 Networks Inc. finds ways to keep its head above water.

 

Networking Under The Microscope

A close-up look at key networking technology and product trends as they apply to the life sciences.

 

Balancing The Load ... Globally

Global Server Load Balancing takes the functionality that network-based local load balancing offers and extends it across the Internet.

 

F5 Builds Web Services Functions Into Network Devices

F5's products allow applications to control the traffic management functions of their networks without manual intervention.

 

Balancing Dynamic Web Services Content

To make working with dynamic content easier, F5 Networks offers version 2.1 of their iControl Software Development Kit (SDK).

 

ECDN 101: Advanced Topics in ECDNs

The ultimate goal of the ECDN is to guarantee that users can successfully access the mission-critical content and applications of the enterprise.

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Cover Your Assets, Web Style

Exposing your infrastructure to the Internet can be deadly.

 

ECDN 101: Building Blocks for Enterprise Content Delivery Networks

ECDNs consist of multiple components, but at a minimum, they should contain caching, content redirection technologies (local and global redirection/load balancers) and content distribution and synchronization functionality.

 

ECDN 101: Tying the ECDN Infrastructure Together

In order for the ECDN to work properly, businesses need to gain maximum ROI from the enterprise network with full scalability for future network growth.

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F5 Focuses On Traffic Management

F5 CEO John McAdam talks about creating a need for a new approach to networking.

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F5 To Deliver Crucial Blade Platform

Big-IP Blade Controller Is one of its best chances for big sales growth in the second half of the year.

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Infrastructure Creed: Faster, Smarter, Stronger

F5's Infrastructure Product of the Year, the Big-IP 5000, is smarter than some people we know.

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N+I: Internet Traffic Management Tools Gain Edge

F5 Networks announced the availability of its BIG-IP Blade Controller for blade servers.

 

N+I: Web Traffic Company Wants To Make 'The BIOS of Blades'

If blade servers take off, they will need traffic management software on board. F5 aims to put its software on blades from all the leading players.

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Products Of The Year

Among the thousands of new products that appeared in 2001, the editors of Network Magazine recognize 31 that stand out from the rest.

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The State of the Network Union

'Optimism in the face of upheaval' is the message six luminaries have for the industry.

 

Transaction Satisfaction

Global load balancers can boost performance of e-business sites, providing with a better experience.

 

Enterprise Content Delivery Networks (ECDN): An Overview

Infrastructure that lets companies deliver rich digital media to employees, vendors, partners and customers worldwide, in the fastest amount of time at the lowest possible cost.

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Fight Server Overload

The BIG-IP is a high-end, mature product with a broad feature set and loads of capacity.

 

Survivors: Big Shifts In Strategies Keep Tech Firms Afloat

If the technology community once revered companies with expensive stocks, that adulation is now reserved for another breed: the survivor.

 

Internet Insight: Smart, Safe and Speedy

Intelligent content switches are arriving in time to relieve server farms.

 

F5 Launches Enterprise Push

F5 Networks is set to consolidate its channel with the launch of a partner programme next month as it sets its sights on enterprise customers.

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How MSNBC Beefed Up Its Web Site For The Olympics

With the Olympics home page on its Web site, MSNBC is glad it pumped up its site for the onrush of traffic.

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Tales Of The Tape

F5 Networks Seeks Top-Cop Status.

 

Building A Strong Foundation For SIP-Based Networks

Carriers looking for ways to tap into the tremendous market potential for terminating PC and phone-based, SIP-based voice and data traffic to the public switched telephone network (PSTN).

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F5 Connects To HP's OpenView

F5 Networks announces Hewlett-Packard's OpenView management tools will work with its BIG-IP Web traffic management products.

 

Web-Friendly Switch

Designed to be both the heart and mind of an Internet data center, the F5 Big-IP 5000 is a versatile, high-performance switch with Layer 2 through 7 features.

 

F5 Supports ISA Server

F5 Networks says it will support and interoperate with Microsoft's Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000.

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CDN Switching Adds Flexibility

CDN switching lets organizations take advantage of shared public services, and lets them leverage those shared services when they wish.

 

Cover Your E-Assets

Traditional insurance companies are now starting to offer protection for e-business or "cyberinsurance".

 

SSL In The Driver's Seat

A single Internet protocol has almost single handedly increased e-commerce by making secured transactions possible -- introducing SSL.

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Emerging Companies: Balancing Act Proves Profitable for Start-U

F5 Network's globally distributed PC servers balance large Web server loads.