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F5 Networks DDoS Protection: Overview and Analysis

See our complete list of top DDoS vendors. Company Description F5 Networks was founded in 1996, and it originally focused on network load balancing. Headquartered in Seattle, F5 now offers solutions for distributed denial of service (DDoS), DNS, load balancing and more. It trades on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol FFIV. Product Description […]

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Drew Robb

Apr 3, 2018

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Company Description
Product Description
Markets and Use Cases
Metrics
Security Qualifications
Intelligence
Delivery
Agents
Pricing

Company Description

F5 Networks was founded in 1996, and it originally focused on network load balancing. Headquartered in Seattle, F5 now offers solutions for distributed denial of service (DDoS), DNS, load balancing and more. It trades on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol FFIV.

Product Description

F5 takes a four-tier approach to protecting against DDoS traffic: cloud, network, application and DNS. It can examine network layers 3-7. F5’s DDoS Hybrid Defender provides multi-layered defense that protects against blended network attacks and sophisticated application attacks while enabling full SSL decryption, anti-bot capabilities and advanced detection methods in one appliance.

Markets and Use Cases

Enterprise, financial services and SMBs.

Metrics

F5 Networks has a network capacity of 1 Tbps, a scrubbing capacity of 2 Tbps, and sub-second response times.

Security Qualifications

F5 Networks Big-IP products adhere to the requirements for Common Criteria Certification, IPv6 Conformance Certification, JITC PKE, NIST 800-53, UC APL, and FIPS 140-2.

Intelligence

Immediate protection at line rate against known bad actors and sharing that intelligence between on-premises deployments and the cloud.

Delivery

Cloud, appliance and hybrid. Its appliance integrates with the Silverline cloud-scrubbing service.

Agents

No agents used.

Pricing

F5 Networks does not disclose pricing.

Drew Robb

Originally from Scotland, Drew Robb has been a writer for more than 25 years. He lives in Florida and specializes in IT, engineering, and business. As well as eWeek and TechRepublic, he writes for a wide range of magazines including Gas Turbine World, SDxCentral, and HR Magazine. He is the author of Server Disk Management in a Windows Environment (Auerbach Publications).