2021 blog posts(99)
F5 Giving Tuesday 2024: Empowering Causes Through Passionate Giving
More than 80% of employees participate in F5’s fifth annual Giving Tuesday campaign, demonstrating that together we can make a difference.
By F5 Global Good
Ensure Salesforce Commerce Cloud Security with F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
Ensure Salesforce Commerce Cloud security by defending and protecting from bot attacks and more with F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense, across any channel.
By Ahmed DessoukiAvoiding the Top 10 NGINX Configuration Mistakes
We help you avoid the 10 most common NGINX configuration errors, explaining the problems caused by each and how to fix them. Errors include insufficient file descriptors per worker, disabling proxy bu...
By Timo StarkThe Top 10 Top 10 Predictions for 2022
As December comes to a close, tech pundits dust off their crystal balls and share their predictions for the coming year. For Peter Silva's annual list, he's compiled a collection of what the industry ...
By F5Advanced Threat Research: Dissecting the Russian-Origin Collector-Stealer Malware
Collector-stealer is an active piece of malware used across the globe. It uses a variety of mechanisms to infiltrate user systems and quietly steal sensitive data. Our security experts have uncovered ...
Protection against the Apache Log4j2 Vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228)
Vulnerabilities, exploitations, mitigation, and remediation are always disruptive, and it’s F5’s mission to do what we can to provide expertise and support for customers. Teams across F5 have been act...
By F5Solving IP Overlap in Multi-Cloud
As distributed modern apps become more common, so will app to app connections, such as hybrid cloud, cloud to cloud, and edge to cloud. Scalable architectures will require a method of dealing with IP ...
By F5Authenticating API Clients with JWT and NGINX Plus
With NGINX Plus as an API gateway, you can use JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) to control access to your APIs. We explain how to configure the gateway for JWT-based authentication, issue JWTs to API clients, r...
By Liam CrillyBridging the Gap Between Multi-Cloud and Multiple Clouds for the Public Sector
Even though the adoption of multi-cloud strategies in the public sector space is growing, there remains a gap in effective solutions that address the many challenges faced by the agencies executing on...
By Ryan JohnsonF5 Marks World AIDS Day 2021
F5 marks this World AIDS Day with a humble commitment to its staff, customers, community, and partners, that we must take part in the efforts to break down the remaining stigma about living with HIV.
By Scott De BuitléirEmployees Are the Superpower Behind Giving Tuesday
At F5, we’ve turned Giving Tuesday into a week-long celebration, and it’s become one of our company’s most important giving campaigns—one that generates positive results for hundreds of nonprofits wor...
By Ana WhiteFinTechs grow in popularity amongst consumers and criminal organizations
As the digital economy grows so does the processing of payments through financial services institutions, and malicious actors are taking notice of the lucrative opportunities this presents. The digita...
By Lori Mac VittieStaying Ahead of Cybercriminals by Aligning Security and Fraud
Staying ahead of the growing sophistication of criminal organizations and their attacks is difficult, especially with staffing and resources in short supply. It’s time to look inward and outward. Brin...
By F5Say Hello to the New F5
What we call ourselves in this world matters. And when our lives and identities change, our names often do too. In the quarter century since F5 Networks was founded, we’ve gone through many evolutions...
By Mika YamamotoImproving NGINX Performance with Kernel TLS and SSL_sendfile( )
NGINX Open Source 1.21.4 introduces support for kernel TLS (kTLS), which boosts performance by significantly reducing the need to copy data between user space and the kernel. We provide complete instr...
By Mikhail IsachenkovCX is a human-first approach to technology
Assuming customer experience correlates only to uptime is a faux pas. CX is impacted by perception, which stems from the overall interaction, not just whether or not the power is on. And CX is not rel...
By Lori Mac VittieDeploying NGINX and NGINX Plus with Docker
Use the NGINX image from the Docker Hub repository or create your own NGINX Plus image to easily deploy NGINX in Docker containers.
By Rick NelsonTransit Gateway Flexibility in Multi-Cloud Networking
Services like AWS Transit Gateway have significantly simplified cloud networking. F5's Volterra further extends the concept of multi-tiered hub-and-spoke networking to the global level, effectively fu...
By F5Encouraging Women of Color to Pursue STEM Careers
Each year, F5 awards STEM Education Grants to nonprofits in the U.S. and around the globe. We recently sat down with Ana White, Chief People Officer at F5, to discuss these grants, their impact, and t...
By F5 Newsroom StaffDigital Transformation Danger Ahead: API Sprawl
Enterprises are naturally siloed with information shared on a need-to-know basis. As enterprises expand, so do the various business units, product teams, and operational teams. In essence, the busines...
Providing Predictability with Quarterly Security Notifications
F5 is making a change in how we handle the public communication of security issues in our software products. We're moving to a predictable quarterly cadence when we have CVEs or exposures to disclose....
By Kara SpragueRedefining Cybersecurity at the Distributed Cloud Edge with AI and Real-time Telemetry
Digital transformation and adoption of Cloud technologies is causing changes in application architectures. These changes introduce new attack surfaces, which are being targeted by advanced, highly org...
Leveling Up Your AWS WAF with F5 Managed Rules
According to Forrester’s 2021 State of Application Security Report, a staggering 39% of all cyberattacks last year targeted web applications, and for good reason. The public-facing nature of web apps,...
By Tom AtkinsKey Takeaways from F5 Labs’ 2021 TLS Telemetry Report
David Warburton looks at the good, the not so good, and the just plain bad in terms of how organizations are using encryption, sourced from F5 Labs' 2021 TLS Telemetry Report.
By David WarburtonMultiple Clouds Versus Multi-Cloud: Making it Easier to Bridge the Gap
Managing and securing workloads is a complex task as enterprises move towards a connected cloud strategy. Find out how F5 is meeting the demand for a new approach to multi-cloud networking.
By F5Closing the Digital Business Loop: Adaptive Apps
Observability, aka Monitoring 2.0, is a significant step forward in this technology journey for operators and digital business as they strive to understand and stabilize the relationship between user ...
By Lori Mac VittieProtecting the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to Self-Determination
Cultural Survival is using an F5 2021 Tech for Good Grant to rebuild its website as it strengthens its advocacy for Indigenous cultures around the globe.
By Carina WeyerA Guide to Choosing an Ingress Controller, Part 4: NGINX Ingress Controller Options
Learn which NGINX Ingress controller is best for you, based on authorship, development philosophy, production readiness, security, and support.
By Jenn GileBIG-IP VE for SmartNICs Solution adds support for L4 Traffic Acceleration and Carrier-Grade NAT
Astonishingly, a little over a year has passed since F5 launched the BIG-IP VE for SmartNICs solution, which as a reminder, is the product of an integration between the BIG-IP Virtual Edition and an I...
By Tom AtkinsConstrained Compute: The Case for Hardware Optimization at the Edge
Compute power in not limitless, and if there’s a limit to our ability to increase size and space as we move to the edge, then we must instead focus on optimization. When we have needed to improve capa...
By Lori Mac Vittie