F5 Networks Achieves OPSEC Certification from Check Point Software; F5's BIG-IP Integrates With Industry's Most Recognized Security Framework.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 11, 2002 F5 Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:FFIV FFIV Final Fantasy Four (video game) ), the leading provider of Internet Traffic Internet traffic is the flow of data around the Internet. It includes web traffic, which is the amount of that data that is related to the World Wide Web, along with the traffic from other major uses of the Internet, such as electronic mail and peer-to-peer networks. and Content Management (iTCM) products, today announced that it has achieved OPSEC (OPerations SECurity) The U.S. military term for concealing critical information as part of a counterintelligence plan. A form of "security by obscurity," OPSEC determines what information adversaries can obtain or piece together from observation and to provide measures for (R)(Open Platform for Security) certification from Check Point Software Technologies (Nasdaq:CHKP CHKP Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ). OPSEC certification assures that F5's BIG-IP(R) product integrates seamlessly with Check Point's market-leading VPN-1(R)/FireWall-1(R)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 Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. and load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them 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 (Secure Sockets Layer) The leading security protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data. termination, client certificates, virus protection and now OPSEC compliancy com·pli·an·cy n. Compliance. Noun 1. compliancy - a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others complaisance, obligingness, compliance, deference ." For more information on the F5 BIG-IP OPSEC Certification, visit: http://www.checkpoint.com/opsec/partners/f5.html About F5 Networks F5 Networks is the leader in Internet Traffic and Content Management (iTCM), and delivers application aware networks through its open Internet Control Architecture. F5 features the industry's leading set of integrated products and services that manage, control and optimize Internet traffic and content. Our solutions automatically and intelligently deliver the best possible Internet performance, availability and content distribution for service providers, enterprises and e-businesses. Our products remove bandwidth congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. and optimize the availability and speed of mission-critical Internet servers and applications, including web publishing Creating a Web site and placing it on the Web server. A Web site is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. Web sites are designed using Web authoring software which provides a graphical layout capability or by hand coding in HTML or both. , content delivery, e-commerce, caching, firewalls and more. Our solutions are widely deployed in large enterprises, the top service providers, financial institutions, government agencies, healthcare, and portals throughout the world. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Wash., and has offices throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Asia Pacific. F5 Networks is located on the web at www.f5.com. About Check Point's OPSEC(R) OPSEC (Open Platform for Security) is the industry's open, multi-vendor security framework. With over 300 partners, OPSEC guarantees customers the broadest choice of best-of-breed integrated applications and deployment platforms that support Check Point's Secure Virtual Network Architecture. Products that carry the OPSEC Certified seal have been tested to guarantee integration and interoperability. For complete OPSEC Alliance program information, including partner and product listings, the freely available OPSEC SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). (software development kit) and evaluation versions of OPSEC Certified products, visit http://www.opsec.com. Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. This press release may contain forward looking statements relating to future events or future financial performance that involve risks and uncertainties. Such statements can be identified by terminology such as "may," "will," "should," "expects," "plans," "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "predicts", "potential" or "continue" or the negative of such terms or comparable terms. These statements are only predictions and actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these statements based upon a number of factors including those identified in the Company's filings with the SEC. |
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