F5 Networks
The City of Diamond Bar in Southern California provides a host of online services to businesses and residents. Solutions from F5 Networks provide secure, remote access to applications for IT vendors and city personnel managing the ecosystemm.
F5 Networks is expanding its presence in Asia, looking to tap opportunities in the area of web security, fast applications delivery and disaster recovery.
Business and IT executives agree that security remains one of the top three priorities today. Security takes top precedence, particularly as organizations connect themselves to the Internet. The Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) is a suite of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) specifications for securing certain kinds of information provided by the Domain Name System (DNS) as used on Internet Protocol (IP) networks. Peter Silva of F5 Networks explains the importance of DNSSEC.
Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service. Users need not have knowledge of, expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure in the "cloud" that supports them. Cloud computing has become another key resource for IT deployments, but there is still fear of securing applications and data in the cloud.
Cloud computing has become another key resource for IT deployments, but there is still fear of securing applications and data in the cloud. This F5 white paper discusses the need to secure the cloud and discusses how with F5 devices, you can keep your most precious assets safe, no matter where they live.
You can install the latest anti-virus and firewall technologies but if you don't beef up your application and web security strategy, you will still get hacked and public confidence will quickly disappear. And you will lose your job!
As governments renew their commitment to improve service delivery, the foundation infrastructure of networks, servers, storage and applications must also be revamped to meet these changing service objectives. Failing to do so would mean a failure to meet your promises to the people.
Interest in web application security is growing but not as fast as the market can bear. According to a recent scan by Web Application Security Consortium, as much as 96.85% of scanned websites have high vulnerability.
