Overloaded government agency IT teams face escalating cybersecurity concerns and tight budgets. To make matters worse, agencies are experiencing the challenges associated with increased operational complexity as they turn to multi-cloud networking. Unfortunately, many IT professionals in these evolving complex environments are left with more questions than answers. Who protects what? Who supports what? What if I don't have training for that en...

Traditional firewalls (Layer 3-4) are purpose built to prevent external access to internal network resources, but these traditional firewalls offer little to no application layer protection. Threat vectors exist today at all layers of the network. Slowloris and HTTP flood attacks are examples of layer 7 attacks which would be undetected by most network firewalls. The impact of these undetected layer 7 attacks is the disruption of your mission...

Welcome to the Industrial Revolution! Join F5 Networks and Carahsoft for Session 2 of the Exploring F5 Seminar Series: Introduction to iWorkflow, iApps, and the Tenant Model.In Session 1 of the Exploring F5 Seminar Series we defined the framework for a variety of topics related to F5’s vision for cloud services and the new network perimeter. We broke those capabilities down into three main areas: Age of Enlightenment – Analytics a...

Global Traffic Management Join F5 Networks and Carahsoft for our Gov TechTalk series at the Courtyard Marriott Herndon Reston. Monthly presentations are scheduled for the last Tuesday of each month through September 2015. Ensure global application high availability in all hybrid environments with F5’s BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM). BIG-IP GTM distributes Domain Name System (DNS) and user application requests based on business polic...