F5 Networks Achieves OPSEC Certification from Check Point Software
F5's BIG-IP Integrates With Industry's Most Recognized Security Framework
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 11, 2002--F5 Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:FFIV - news), the leading provider of Internet Traffic and Content Management (iTCM) products, today announced that it has achieved OPSEC®(Open Platform for Security) certification from Check Point Software Technologies (Nasdaq:CHKP - news).
OPSEC certification assures that F5's BIG-IP® product integrates seamlessly with Check Point's market-leading VPN-1®/FireWall-1®software.
``VPN-1/FireWall-1 provides customers their mission critical connection to the Internet and therefore must be available continuously,'' said Upesh Patel, manager OPSEC Alliance. ``We are pleased to award F5 the OPSEC Certification for their high availability and load balancing solution. Certification assures interoperability between the F5 BIG-IP product and VPN-1/FireWall-1.''
F5's BIG-IP solution provides superior high availability load balancing, administration, management, security, and extensibility for Check Point VPN-1/FireWall-1 deployments utilizing their state synchronization capabilities. BIG-IP also provides the ability to log events to the Check Point NG Management Server utilizing Check Point's OPSEC interfaces. Through its unmatched intelligence, BIG-IP ensures that all business-critical traffic is properly distributed across the available resources and guarantees delivery to the intended destination. BIG-IP's extensive feature set allows for flexible deployment scenarios that easily accommodate infrastructure modifications dictated by business requirements, without costly disruptions.
``At F5, an overarching goal is to provide customers with the most flexibility to securely deploy and manage their web applications and services,'' said Erik Giesa, director of product management at F5 Networks. ``We continue to lead the Internet traffic management market by delivering the industry's most innovative, high-performance solutions that offer security capabilities at numerous levels, including SSL termination, client certificates, virus protection and now OPSEC compliancy.'' |
