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Unify and simplify security operations across environments
Security remains a core concern for organizations interested in cloud computing. Along with concerns about reliability and control over remotely deployed resources and applications, security can quickly become an obstacle to taking advantage of cloud computing benefits.
F5’s unique application control plane architecture makes it easy to replicate existing security policies and processes to cloud environments. F5 helps you extend policy enforcement into remote environments and ensures that you can apply consistent application and system security measures. Unified policy deployment, management, auditing, and logging further assure your ability to meet business and operational security standards.
By extending enterprise security architecture to the cloud, F5 enables an operationally consistent environment with the flexibility necessary to address emerging threats. An F5-centered security architecture easily supports new initiatives, clients, devices, and applications without recreating policies or retrofitting processes, regardless of location.
Why do I need cloud security?
Business benefits of using F5 for cloud security include:
- Reduced complexity.
With a reusable framework of security services that can be leveraged across static, dedicated servers as well as across multi-site cloud deployments, you immediately gain value that grows as your applications grow. - Increased control.
By integrating application security, dynamic provisioning, access control, and management, you can more readily shift the burden of processing to the cloud without giving up ownership and control. - Operational consistency.
Disconnected processes and policies introduce a higher chance of error. Using a common security service platform across both the data center and the cloud reduces the possibility for errors that can lead to security breaches.
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How do I extend security to the cloud?
F5 delivers an application control plane in addition to its dynamic control plane architecture that enables the integration of network and application delivery components. Both inside the existing data center and in the cloud, this architecture adapts to constantly changing conditions in the environment. It gives your organization the visibility and control you need to grow from nascent virtualization all the way to cloud while maintaining consistent enforcement of security policies. F5 provides the right tools and services at the right time to make the cloud a viable option for your enterprise.
What F5 offerings do I need to extend security to the cloud?
F5 offers a wide selection of products and services, including virtual editions, that integrate to enable your organization to apply the right solution to your cloud efforts.
BIG-IP Application Security Manager and BIG-IP Access Policy Manager give you the ability to replicate and enforce existing corporate security policies to maintain a positive security posture in cloud deployments. BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager provides carrier-grade protection against multi-layer attacks that can jeopardize the cost and time savings you expect from cloud architectures.
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