F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager Awarded Five-Star Rating from SC Magazine
Nov. 2, 2011
F5 receives highest-possible ranking in SC Magazine product review
SEATTLE--( BUSINESS WIRE)-- F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that F5® BIG-IP® Application Security Manager™ (ASM™) has received a five-star rating from SC Magazine. In a review of application security products appearing online and in SC Magazine’s November issue, F5 earned the highest possible marks given by the publication.
SC Magazine’s five-star rating indicates how well the product performed against test criteria. A rating of five stars indicates “outstanding—an A on the product’s report card.”
Within the review, SC Magazine noted that BIG-IP ASM was found “to have a great amount of flexibility when it came to creating policy and policy templates, and it also includes many prebuilt policies right out of the box.” The review went on to state that “the BIG-IP ASM to be a good value for the money,” noting that the solution offers “advanced protection from bots and other web application threats” and “protection against not-so-obvious threats, such as bot detection.”
F5 BIG-IP ASM is an advanced web application firewall that significantly reduces and mitigates the risk of loss or damage to data, intellectual property, and web applications. BIG-IP ASM provides unmatched application and website protection, a complete attack expert system, and compliance for key regulatory mandates—all on a platform that consolidates access control and application delivery with network and application acceleration and optimization.
“F5’s BIG-IP Application Security Manager ensures application availability while effectively fighting off multiple types of attacks, including denial-of-service and brute force attacks,” said Mark Vondemkamp, Director of Product Management at F5. “The SC Magazine Five-Star award validates that F5’s BIG-IP Application Security Manager is the top choice among application security products.” |
