City of Diamond Bar Gives Its Vendors Secure, Reliable Access to Applications with F5 FirePass SSL VPN

Customer:           The City of Diamond Bar Vertical:             Government F5 Solution:        BIG-IP Link Controller                             FirePass SSL VPN “ The remote access control provided by FirePass SSL VPN is a key shield in our defense.” Ken Desforges, IS Director, City of Diamond Bar, California Business Challenge: The City of Diamond Bar provides a host of online services. Residents can buy transit passes online, for example, while...

F5 Talks With Evan Loats From CSC About Remote Access

  Founded in 1959, Computer Sciences Corporation is a leading  global IT services company. CSC provides innovative solutions for industry and government customers around the world by applying leading technologies and CSC's own advanced capabilities. These include systems design and integration; IT and business process outsourcing; applications software development; Web and application hosting; and management consulting. In this podcast, we talk to Evan Loats, Remote Access Product Manager, Australia and Asia CSC, about the requirements of remote access users in today’s rapidly evolving mobile environment and the solution F5 Networks provides to their customers. ...

Best Practices Deploying IBM Web Sphere 7 Now Available

One of the challenges with deploying advanced application delivery controllers as a way to improve the security, performance, and scalability of specific applications is the wealth of user-configurable options available. It can take network and application server administrators days if not weeks to optimize a configuration for their specific environment using all the knobs and buttons available. A full-proxy based application delivery solution has a variety of specific configuration options that can be “tweaked” to gain optimal performance for application environments like IBM WebSphere. For example, it is possible to configure the client side (WAN) and the server side (LAN)...

Datacenter Stockholm Improves Efficiency of Physical and Virtual Infrastructure with FirePass

Customer:       Datacenter Stockholm Vertical:          Web hosting F5 Solution:     FirePass, BIG-IP LTM Business Challenge: Datacenter Stockholm is a leading IT resource provider, focusing on the online media and retail industry.  Datacenter Stockholm enhanced its secure remote access customer proposition using FirePass. Additionally, the need for additional bandwidth, together with a drive towards consolidation, were addressed using BIG-IP 3600 devices. New virtual servers can be added on a daily basis to meet expanding customer requirements without disruption to existing services or architecture. Customer Benefits: ...

FirePass v6.0.3 Released

I have the pleasure and honor to announce that version 6.0.3 of F5's SSL VPN, FirePass, has been released! This version of FirePass includes a plethora of enhancements included new client support (Vista SP1, XP SP3, and Firefox 3 on Windows, Mac, and Linux) as well as support for the iPhone and Windows Mobile devices.    About F5 FirePass: FirePass is a robust, secure SSL VPN providing remote access to business applications from a wide range of client devices, including Windows Mobile devices and the Apple iPhone. Using full-tunnel...

F5 Networks Joins PCI Security Standards Council

F5 joins Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council to help promote broad adoption of PCI standards SEATTLE, November 6, 2007 - F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that it has joined the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council as a Participating Organization. As a company, F5 has a rich level of expertise across application and network security. The company's solutions, including BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager™, FirePass®, and BIG-IP Application Security Manager™ products, help customers achieve compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (DSS). "The PCI Security Standards...