Many companies have seen years of transformation take place in just the past several months. While adapting to a global crisis has been a catalyst, the long-term requirements have remained the same while the urgency has increased. Organizations want to deliver a superior customer experience. They want business agility, the ability to respond rapidly to changing market conditions. And, ultimately, they want return on their investments.
A thoughtful and deliberate data strategy is fundamental to enabling the quality and cost-effectiveness of the most important business workflows. Further, when the workflows are instrumented to transmit their observed data exhaust to a collection and analysis infrastructure, the workflows themselves can be continuously analyzed and improved, resulting in constantly adaptive and optimized business workflows.
A key component of improved federal cybersecurity is visibility, which is being addressed through the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program. Last year, Congress upped CDM funding, setting aside a total of $213.5 million for the program. As these funds are actually funneled into technology investments, agencies generally recognize the fact that no single vendor is able to solve the entire CDM puzzle.
This blog concludes a two-part series celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month through the voices of our employees and members of F5’s Latinx e Hispanos Unidos Employee Inclusion Group (EIG). Alejandro (Alex) Figueroa, a manager at our Security Operation Center based in Guadalajara, shares his story and thoughts on the importance of this celebration.
While it's true that 2020 has seen different DDoS attack patterns emerge, what is also true is that DDoS attacks at the infrastructure layer are still DDoS attacks. They are what we might call "traditional" attacks. What is changing are targets and opportunities that come with a distributed workforce, along with considerations around 5G and Edge computing.
Jay Kelley: For those unfamiliar, the F5 Edge Client is an SSL VPN client used to provide access to enterprise networks for employees working from home or remote locations. The most exciting new feature of F5 Edge Client 7.2.1 is its ability to deliver single sign-on (SSO) across web and remote access applications.
If you removed the case of your desktop computer back in the 1990s, one of the first things you’d see is a network interface card (NIC). Unlikely as it may sound, the humble NIC is now set to help the telecoms industry, and its customers, combat a huge global surge in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
By its industry definition, SOAR comprises “technologies that enable organizations to collect inputs monitored by the security operations team…SOAR tools allow an organization to define incident analysis and response procedures in a digital workflow format.” But it is far more than just a set of tools.
In most fictional stories, whether told through text or on the screen, there is a point at which plotline resolution is achieved. The heroine defeats her nemesis. The kingdom is saved. The planet is safe.
There's a big difference between knowing something's wrong and knowing what to do about it. Only after monitoring the right elements can we discern the health of a user experience, deriving from the analysis of those measurements the relationships and patterns that can be inferred. Ultimately, the automation that will give rise to truly adaptive applications is based on measurements and our understanding of them.
