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Data Center Firewall Solutions
Protect your Internet data center from today’s attacks
Internet threats are widely varied and multi-layered. As these threats evolve, organizations find that traditional firewalls lack the intelligence and the scalability needed to stay effective and responsive under DDoS and a whole range of other sophisticated attacks. The result is a failure to protect the business from loss of critical Internet data center services.
F5 offers a native, high performance firewall solution that protects the entire infrastructure and scales to perform under the most demanding conditions. F5 provides the intelligence and flexibility you need to stay secure in the ever-changing and increasingly threatening landscape. You get a common platform to deliver applications and significantly improve responsiveness to rapidly evolving threats. F5 brings together the network, applications, data, and users under a single security strategy that traditional firewalls and point solutions don’t offer.
Why do I need a data center firewall solution?
- Reduced costs and complexity.
With F5, you can consolidate network, DNS, web, and access security functions onto a single, unified platform. - Improved business integrity.
By ensuring strong protection for your Internet resources, you protect the business and brand. - Faster response to business risks.
Extensible and adaptable security enables you to respond to new threats instantly. - High performance and scalability.
The F5 data center firewall solution handles millions of connections to meet your growing business demands and perform under high-volume attacks. - Superior availability.
F5 solutions have the ability to understand user context, intelligently protecting against attacks while delivering peak performance for valid users.
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The New Data Center Firewall Paradigm White Paper
How do I implement a data center firewall solution?
The F5 data center firewall solution provides you with network security built in natively. Using the F5 iRules scripting language and F5 iApps functionality, you can deploy granular rule sets with unprecedented speed and accuracy. And F5 deployment guides give you step-by-step procedures for security configuration.
AskF5 Configuration Guides
- BIG-IP Data Center Firewall Configuration Guide
Security Content from DevCentral
What offerings do I need for a data center firewall solution?
The BIG-IP product family is a certified ISCA Network Firewall that provides high performance protection for your entire infrastructure. BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is purpose-built, high-performance Application Delivery Controller (ADC) designed to protect Internet data centers for network attacks, including DDoS. In many instances, BIG-IP LTM can replace an existing firewall while also offering scale, performance, and persistence.
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