F5 Networks
F5 Networks is the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, providing solutions that make applications secure, fast, and available for everyone. Over 10,000 organisations and service providers worldwide trust F5 to keep their applications running.
By adding intelligence and manageability into the network to offload applications, F5 optimises applications and allows them to work faster and consume fewer resources.
F5's extensible architecture intelligently integrates application optimisation, protects the application and the network, and delivers application reliability - all on one universal platform.
Whether you are looking to deploy SSL VPN’s or secure and accelerate applications over the WAN, SP can build & support a tailored solution for your requirements.
Firepass
Remote workers want to connect from everywhere: homes, airports, hotel rooms, coffee shops, and vehicles. They don't want to go through a difficult process to connect. Equally, IT departments don't want infected laptops & mobile devices logged into the corporate network.
The FirePass SSL VPN provides both security and ease of use. It grants access to corporate applications using a technology that everyone understands: a Web browser. Users can have secure access from anywhere they have an Internet connection, while FirePass ensures that connected computers are fully patched and protected.
Key Benefits
- offloading server-based processes and access controls to free up valuable server cycles
- clustered scalability & availability features support 1000s of concurrent users/failover services
- FirePass runs virus checks prior to user logon and set defined access controls to the client device during logon, to ensure secure access compliance.
- robust, secure SSL VPN remote access to business applications from a wide range of client devices, including Apple iPhone and Windows Mobile devices
- client access policies defined by system administrators, so remote clients logon to applications under pre-defined permissions and client directory control.
Product Sheets
BigIP Family
Applications running across networks can cause a wide variety of problems. Whatever the problem, though, the BIG-IP Product Family can handle it. One device. Complete control.
BIG-IP delivers high availability, improved performance, application security, and access control, all in one unit. The BIG-IP Product Family is extraordinarily flexible and configurable. BIG-IP is like nothing else in the industry, because it uses a modular architecture built on a common platform.
That means that instead of adding more single-purpose devices to your network -- which make the network more complex -- you can simply add a new product module to BIG-IP. By limiting the total number of physical devices, you make the entire network much easier to manage.
If you only need a single module to perform some specific function, you can purchase that module as a standalone. This lowers your costs while still giving you the simplicity and advantages of a common platform.
BIG-IP Product Modules
F5 application delivery products are modular, designed with expansion and customization in mind. BIG-IP product modules let you easily incorporate new functionality -- everything from Web acceleration to topology-based load balancing -- so you can quickly adapt to changing application and business challenges
Product Sheets
ASM (Application Security Manager)
Some of the most serious security threats come from attacks targeting vulnerabilities in enterprise applications. Conventional firewalls and intrusion prevention systems often don't detect these attacks.
Security regulations, including PCI DSS, require organizations to use application firewalls to protect against these attacks. BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM) delivers comprehensive protection for web applications while maintaining low total cost of ownership.
BIG-IP ASM can help your organization quickly pass a security audit without requiring changes to the application code. It employs an auto-adaptive approach to application delivery security, where the security policy is automatically updated based on observed traffic patterns. This improves user experience and consolidates the datacenter footprint for easier management.
Key Features
The fastest application delivery security product on the market, ASM includes an integrated XML firewall. It combines application optimization and acceleration technologies such as:
- RAM cache
- Compression,
- SSL offload,
- TCP optimization,
- and other performance advantages of F5's TMOS architecture.