F5 Newsroom Press Releases Events F5 Blog In the News Features Awards Mainstream Microservices Mania: Challenges Increasing with Adoption Just a few short years ago microservices were a curiosity discussed by developers with a kind of giddy excitement at the possibilities and opportunities the fledgling app architecture presented. ... Application Capital F5 SVP Kara Sprague outlines an evolution of physical and digital capital that has led to the present era of Application Capital as an organization's most valuable asset. Read More > Economic Espionage: How Nation-State-Funded APTs Steal Billions in Secrets F5 Labs’ Ray Pompon explores how intellectual property theft relates to your morning latte...and is also costing the U.S. $600 billion per year. Read More > Container Automation Drives Frictionless App Services One of the ways app developers are able to simplify their dev and test is to incorporate containers and microservices for maximum efficiency and portability. Unblocking Change: Continuous Learning in the DevOps Era For network ops, industry shifts can prove quite disruptive as app teams bypass controls and systems that made perfect sense at one time. F5 Named a WAF Leader by Independent Research Firm SEATTLE ‒ F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) today announced that it has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Web Application Firewalls, Q2 2018 report, published June 25, 2018. The Forrester... Read More > The Surprising Truth about Digital Transformation: Container Confusion This is the last blog in a series on the challenges arising from digital transformation. The Surprising Truth about Digital Transformation The Surprising Truth about Digital Transformation:... Read More > BIG-IP Cloud Edition: The Security Advantage of Per-App Architectures Apps introduce risk, and the apps that rely on other apps introduce even more risk – Zach Westall continues his blog series on BIG-IP Cloud Edition The Surprising Truth about Digital Transformation: Diseconomy of Scale This is the fourth blog in a series on the challenges arising from digital transformation. The Surprising Truth about Digital Transformation The Surprising Truth about Digital Transformation:... The Health of your Apps: Analytics in BIG-IP Cloud Edition and BIG-IQ 6.0 A closer look at how F5 provides an application-centric view of the health, performance, and security of your applications and the devices that serve them. Read More > F5 Labs' Sara Boddy featured in Fox Business News article on cyberattacks during the U.S.-North Korea summit Singapore became the number one target of cyberattacks in the world on June 11–12, with 88% deployed by Russian IP addresses. Advanced Attackers: Stealthy, Patient, Dangerous CISOs recently ranked advanced persistent threats (APTs) as their #1 concern. F5 Labs’ Ray Pompon gives you a look at tips, tools, and some basic protections. F5 Officially Supporting Ansible for Application Services Deployment As part of the robust and expanding Ansible ecosystem, F5 provides a wide variety of Ansible modules to automate the onboarding, configuration and deployment of F5 application services. Enabling... BIG-IP Cloud Edition: What You Need to Know F5’s BIG-IP Cloud Edition is now released and available to order. Since you already may have read the general overview from our press release last month, I will use this blog to drill into more... Bot Defense Should be a Key Component of a Proactive Security Strategy Usually when we talk about app protection we immediately focus on web application firewalls. Specifically, we tend to focus on the OWASP Top Ten and application layer vulnerabilities that can lead... A Brief Catch-Up Ahead of the AWS Public Sector Summit Each year, Washington D.C. plays host to one of the largest cloud-oriented public sector gatherings on the planet – AWS’ suitably dubbed Public Sector Summit. BIG-IP VE Availability for the U.S. Intelligence Community on AWS AWS C2S, or Commercial Cloud Services as it’s otherwise known, is the name of the government program and contract vehicle that brought an air-gapped, top secret region of the AWS cloud to the U.S.... Russia Attacks Global Network Infrastructure Through Vulnerabilities That Extend Far Beyond Targets US-CERT TL18-106A alert underscores how insecure Internet systems really are and that ignoring the problem only increases the collateral damage. The Surprising Truth about Digital Transformation: Skipping Security It will be no surprise for many IT veterans to hear that when app performance becomes an issue, security is the first service out the door. Application-Centric Management with BIG-IP Cloud Edition At F5, ADCs have always been about applications. After all, that is what the A in ADC is all about. F5 has done a good job on focusing on application delivery – our customer community, DevCentral,... Read More > The Surprising Truth about Digital Transformation: Cloud Chaos This is the second blog in a series from Lori MacVittie. Let us note that the chaos associated with cloud is most often a people and process problem, not a technical one. Application Services Update: More than 4 in 5 use SSL Termination It’s time again to dig into the application services organizations are actually using to make apps faster and safer. Of note this quarter again is a continuing rise in use of bot defense services.... Open Source Spotlight: Increasing Observability with F5 Cloud Logger iApp Developers (and DevOps) crave observability. That’s visibility, but with more alacrity, meaning APIs and integration with tools and dashboards. Read More > The Surprising Truth about Digital Transformation and What It’s Doing to Your Network It’s not really that technology is changing all that much, it’s more the fact that how we engage with technology is rapidly changing. Read More > Top Five Scalability Patterns Availability is serious business in an economy where applications are currency. Apps that don’t respond are summarily deleted and bad mouthed on the Internet with the speed and sarcasm of a... Load Balancing Apps and APIs: Algorithms versus Architecture For the most part, scaling apps and APIs are pretty much the same thing. Both require some sort of load balancer – usually a proxy – and are required to distribute requests across a pool of... F5 Anti-Bot Mobile SDK Extends Bot Protection to Mobile Apps Byron McNaught looks at the ways back-end mobile API components can be exposed to automated attacks such as content scraping, denial of service, and a wave of other new threats (and what you can do... Read More > F5 Appoints Francis J. Pelzer as Chief Financial Officer SEATTLE – F5 announced Francis “Frank” J. Pelzer has joined the company’s leadership team as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, reporting to the CEO. Read More > IT Automation is Strategic What if I told you that “mainframes host more transactions daily than Google (1.3 million/second on CICS vs. 68,542/second on Google), including 55 percent of all enterprise transactions.”... Azure Stack Support – Expanding F5’s Multi-Cloud Ecosystem F5 empowers Azure users to further enhance the hybrid capabilities of architectures through replication of supporting application services across environments. F5 is an Initial Launch Member of Microsoft’s Intelligent Security Association The security of applications, data, and networking infrastructure is now more critical than ever, given the continued evolution of cyberattack vectors and the frequency at which they occur. It is... Read More > See How to Route Apps across Multi-Cloud Containers with F5 and Red Hat F5 is at Red Hat Summit this week demonstrating multi-cloud capabilities with OpenShift Containers, Ansible automation, and Aspen Mesh / Istio insight. Read More > NetOps Take Note of SRE Focus on MTTR to Realize Availability Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is a relatively new role – usually within engineering or operations – focused on maintaining, unsurprisingly, site reliability. That generally means availability of... Why is a Declarative Model Important for NetOps Automation? Lori MacVittie: If you’re going to automate all the things, go declarative. BIG-IP Cloud Edition: Per-app Security and Scale There is a new network coming to a data center near you. And by ‘near you’ I mean within walking distance of your desk. Whether we like it or not, pressure from digital transformation continues to... Read More > How IoT can compromise network integrity The IoT (Internet of Things) is shaking up the networking space and paving the way for machine-to-machine (M2M) communication and automated processes. Read More > Open Source Spotlight: URL rewrite and Helm charts Lori MacVittie looks at how technologies like F5 Container Connector help navigate the routes between modern environments and traditional networking. Incredible security content at F5’s ANTICIPATE 2018 event “Guys, did you hear? The team in ASEAN is building a security conference to rival the best in business. They call it ANTICIPATE!” That’s the rumor going around the F5 world and its true. We’re... What is Infrastructure as Code for NetOps? As DevOps approaches creep over the wall into network operations, it drags with it new terminology. These colloquialisms can be confusing to NetOps who’ve not encountered them before, and can... F5 Announces New Application Services Offering for Multi-Cloud Environments SEATTLE – F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) today introduced BIG-IP Cloud Edition, available May 31, enabling customers to quickly deploy critical application services for every app and any... "How to get more work done this summer: Take a week-long vacation" https://t.co/BlwdydcdHB via @Inc #productivity 1 hour ago "Abu Dhabi Judicial Department enhances key applications with @F5NetworksEMEA": https://t.co/CrSykjfSge via @ICIO_ME 3 hours ago “Why your next pizza dinner or ice cream dessert may be made by a robot”: https://t.co/qw350EUyHV via @TechRepublic #AI 15 hours ago “Serverless #cloud computing is the next big thing”: https://t.co/5x41DFMSlO via @infoworld 17 hours ago ICYMI - F5 SVP Kara Sprague discusses “Application Capital” at the recent #GWCloudTech Summit: https://t.co/2DNH50RCsp 19 hours ago Have you registered for #F5Agility18 in Boston? 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