F5 Networks on Tuesday announced that the latest release of the F5 BIG-IP
product family has been certified by ICSA Labs as a network firewall, helping
customers protect their public-facing websites from today’s massive cyber
attacks. The newly certified solution handles eight times more traffic at the
same cost of the closest competitor’s solution.
“F5 provides an entirely new and more intelligent approach for defending
public-facing web properties and DNS services against harmful attacks,”
said Mark Vondemkamp, Director of Product Management at F5. “Many of the
world’s largest and most prestigious brands are leveraging F5’s BIG-IP
solution to protect web properties that have substantial traffic levels and
are frequent targets of malicious attacks. An added benefit of our solution
is that it delivers dramatically better price/performance than traditional
firewalls... (more)
It's been just a few weeks since we released an updated version of CloudBerry
Explorer for OpenStack Object Storage . In this release we are adding an
ability to edit Http Headers for files. To run the Http Header Editor select
a file and select Set Http Headers from the context menu. The Http Headers
dialog box will come us. With this tool you can see the list of all existing
Http Headers, edit and remove headers and add the new ones. What’s next One
thing that have been left over in the first release is that ability to
configure RackSpace CDN. This is going to become availabl... (more)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the beta of their new storage
gateway functionality that enables access of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage
Services) from your different applications using an appliance installed in
your data center site.
With this beta launch, Amazon joins other startup vendors who are providing
standalone gateway appliance products (e.g. Nasuni, Certa, etc) along with
those who have disappeared from the market (e.g. Cirtas). In addition to
gateway vendors, there are also those with cloud access added to their
software tools such as (e.g. Jungle Disk that access... (more)
#adcfw #infosec F5 is changing the game on security by unifying it at the
application and service delivery layer.
Over the past few years we’ve seen firewalls fail repeatedly. We’ve seen
business disrupted, security thwarted, and reputations damaged by the failure
of the very devices meant to prevent such catastrophes from happening. These
failures have been caused by a change in tactics from invaders who seek no
longer to find away through or over the walls, but who simply batter it down
instead. A combination of traditional attacks – network-layer – and
modern attacks – applic... (more)
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By Greg Schulz
No Im not running for any elected office in a political or other
organizational capacity, more on the voting stuff in a moment.
Let me start out by saying thank you to all of you who have and continue to
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Doing some recent end of year clean up and preparation for 2012, I ... (more)