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Government Solutions
Serve and protect your online constituents
Government IT departments face many of the same challenges and mandates as their business counterparts. Just as in the private sector, they need to improve efficiency and drive down costs. High-quality service for citizens is just as important as superior customer service is for businesses. But there is one crucial difference: in the government sector, lives and property are often at stake. Public welfare demands security and service continuity.
Awareness of the need to maintain critical services after a disaster has never been higher. But even with everyday operations, the public expects governments to offer the same streamlined access to services that they expect from businesses. These services include everything from checking traffic to reviewing building-permit status to accessing federal databases. IT departments must juggle the conflicting expectations of providing easy access while safeguarding sensitive information.
Why do I need F5 for government?
Only F5 offers a unified architecture that meets the multiple challenges of delivering government applications. F5 can provide absolute service continuity, total reliability, and bulletproof security. F5 helps you:
Benefits of using F5 for your government solution include:
- Balance loads and increase the performance of servers and applications by up to one-third, ensuring constant availability of services
- Speed replication of databases across redundant data centers and provide automated failover capability for disaster recovery scenarios
- Adhere to all six core areas of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standard for accepting online tax payments and license fees
- Establish comprehensive safeguards against unauthorized access and malicious application attacks, including all common web attacks
- Provide secure remote access for dispersed workers
- Manage and control access to data across multiple departments and governmental bodies with overlapping jurisdictions
- Reduce the number of different solutions in the network, while improving network scalability and flexibility
Top Case Studies
- Large U.S. Government Department Meets Cross-Country Data Replication Goals with Joint EMC and F5 Solution
- Georgia Technology Authority - Standardizes on F5's FirePass SSL VPN to enable secure remote access for state agencies
- Government Contractor - F5's FirePass SSL VPN part of key government contractor's initiative to support emerging Middle East government
Solution Guides
Top White Papers
F5 solutions guide for the government industry
How do I implement a solution for government?
Deploying any of our Application Ready Networking solutions within government is made easy with our comprehensive security policies and optimization profiles. F5 deployment guides show you in step-by-step detail how to configure F5 devices. For post-deployment tips and further optimizations, our developer community, DevCentral, provides forums, tips, codeshare and much more.
