Extends F5’s security offerings with a highly scalable cloud-based DDoS mitigation service, engineered to absorb the largest attacks
Designed by DDoS industry pioneers, Defense.Net’s service is supported by an advanced, high-throughput infrastructure to defend organizations against the new generation of massive and sophisticated DDoS attacks. The Defense.Net network supports multiple protocols and provides ground-breaking features for remediation and control to safeguard customers from unforeseen threat vectors, while maintaining application performance.
The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The acquisition is not expected to have a material impact on F5’s operating results.
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“F5’s objective is to help protect customers from ever-changing security
threats before they impact their businesses,” said
“F5’s DDoS product engineering shows a comparable focus on scale and
performance to how Defense.Net has built its mitigation capability in
the cloud,” said
“Sophisticated DDoS attacks combine high volume traffic-clogging with
stealthy low and slow application-targeted techniques,” said
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F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) provides solutions for an application world. F5 helps organizations seamlessly scale cloud, data center, and software defined networking (SDN) deployments to successfully deliver applications to anyone, anywhere, at any time. F5 solutions broaden the reach of IT through an open, extensible framework and a rich partner ecosystem of leading technology and data center orchestration vendors. This approach lets customers pursue the infrastructure model that best fits their needs over time. The world’s largest businesses, service providers, government entities, and consumer brands rely on F5 to stay ahead of cloud, security, and mobility trends. For more information, go to f5.com.
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