Blog posts on 2015

Identity theft: A threat more severe than you think

Identity theft: a threat more severe than you think. Read the F5 blog to discover how credential stuffing powers account takeover and how to deploy defenses.

To achieve consistent security for hybrid cloud, look to the cloud

As early as 2009, when cloud was just beginning to rise ascendant as the technology most likely to disrupt, well, everything, many of us began looking at the problem of consistency at the infrastructu...

Join us in celebrating #12DaysOfDevOps

Join us in celebrating #12DaysOfDevOps! Read the F5 blog for daily insights, tips, and best practices to streamline your application delivery pipelines.

The Internet of (Increasingly Scary) Things

There is a lot of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) that gets attached to any emerging technology trend, particularly when it involves vast legions of consumers eager to participate. And while it’s e...

F5 SOC: Shutting Down Malicious Scripts in Real Time

It’s only sort of true that people are the weakest link in the information security chain. The truly weakest link is the browser. That’s because the browser is one of those apps that no one really pa...

Go Beyond POLB (Plain Old Load Balancing)

Scalability is a critical capability for both business and applications. On the business side, scaling operations is key to enabling the new app economy...

On Cloud Nine: Singapore’s journey to a Smart Nation

7 Questions About Singapore's Smart Nation Journey. Read the F5 blog to explore how cloud technologies and robust cybersecurity enable digital transformation.

HTTP/2 Infographic: Apps Delivered Faster

HTTP/2 Infographic: Apps Delivered Faster. View F5's infographic to understand the performance benefits of HTTP/2 and how it optimizes modern web delivery.

The “S” in HTTPS Doesn’t Stand for SSL

It is natural to assume that when we see a padlock icon in our browsers that the site is using SSL to secure our communications. It’s also apparently a signal to consumers that the site is, in fact, s...

F5 Previews Pre-Configured WAF Solution for Microsoft Azure Security Center

F5 Previews Pre-Configured Web Application Firewall Solution for Azure Security Center

How the CIO can have the cake and eat it too

How the CIO can have their cake and eat it too. Read the F5 blog to discover how to balance rapid DevOps agility with robust, enterprise-grade security.

F5 & VMware delivering more control and better security for any device, anywhere

F5 and VMware are partnering to support you—our customers—by integrating our technologies, products, and services to meet your business needs from the data center to the cloud. We have done so for clo...

Things talking to Things Talking to Apps

Smart leggings.   A portable Gluten sensor.    Wireless speaker in a light bulb. The number of “things” invading the market today is incredible, and every day brings something...

Where F5 Fits in a DevOps World

I’m often asked after speaking at conferences just what dog F5 has in the race. Of late, that topic is usually DevOps or related to DevOps in some way. The reality is that application-affine services ...

Boost Business Mobility and Application Security with Nutanix and F5

The Attack You Can’t Stop in Your Application

A wide variety of HTTP-based attacks can (and should) be prevented in your application. The OWASP Top 10 is a prime example of attack techniques that are both detectable and preventable from within an...

The Gravitational Pull of Apps is Forking the Network

The network is forking. Bifurcating. Dispersing. You’re welcome to use whatever term you’d like to use to describe the phenomenon of network services relocating from the quiet suburb that is the corpo...

The Power of the Proxy: Bridging the Gap between Dev and Prod

The world of the application developer and the network architect could not be more different except, perhaps, in the way in which they each view the other’s domain. A typical network perspective of an...

Is SSL Smuggling Malware into your Business?

Is SSL smuggling malware into your business? Read the F5 blog to learn why encrypted traffic inspection is critical for detecting and stopping hidden threats.

F5 Now Available in Microsoft Azure

Discussion of F5 application services available for use in Microsoft Azure.

What We Can Learn about Scale from Virtualization

As virtualization began to take hold there were a variety of metrics proposed for measuring success. Consolidation ratios, admins to virtual machine ratios, time to provision, and percentage of server...

The Power of the Proxy: Addressing the Threat of (Outbound) E-Mail

Service Discovery in a Microservices Architecture

Explore the service discovery within a microservices architecture, including client-side and server-side discovery patterns, the service registry, & more.

21 app services you didnt know existed

When I say “app services” or, to use the more common networking-oriented moniker, “L4-7 services”, what do you think of? Wait, let me guess. You thought of: load balancing caching WAN optimization ...

Keep Calm and Monitor BIG-IP with Blue Medora’s F5 BIG-IP Management Pack for VMware vRealize Operations

Like cloud, SDN suffering from definition fatigue

Like cloud, SDN is suffering from definition fatigue. Read the F5 blog to cut through the hype & understand the practical realities of Software-Defined Networks.

We need to turn our security model inside out

It’s an application world. That’s beginning to sound trite and cliché, but it’s still true. When it comes to security, that means our focus should start with the application and work our way out ...

The Three Key Characteristics of a Modern App Proxy

Keep the hot side hot and the cold side cold. You may recall (if you’re old enough and no, don’t worry, I won’t ask you to raise your hand) a campaign years ago by McDonald’s promoting packaging of so...

ABAC not RBAC: Welcome to the (IoT) World of Contextual Security

There are many more attributes that can be gleaned from a seemingly simple application request than may at first meet the eye. There is, of course, IP address. From which can be determined one’s locat...

Ashley Madison represents new darker stage of cyber hacking

Ashley Madison represents a darker stage of cyber hacking. Read the F5 blog analyzing the shift from financial theft to reputational damage and data extortion.