| 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.”
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