Articles By: F5 Networks

2018 Report: The State of Application Delivery

Our 4th annual State of Application Delivery survey results are in. After hearing from over 3,000 of your peers, we saw some distinct trends, confirmed many theories, and learned some surprising facts.

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Lessons Learned from a Decade of Data Breaches

F5 Labs researched 433 breach cases spanning 12 years, 37 industries, and 27 countries to discover patterns in the initial attacks that lead to the breach. We can only know about a small fraction of what’s really going on, as companies often don’t know when they have been breached. There’s always a complicated mix of visibility, logging, monitoring and alerting, […]

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The Hunt for IoT – The Rise of Thingbots

F5 Labs has been tracking the hunt for IoT devices, the associated botnets being built from this activity, and the attacks they launch for the past year and a half. Our third report in the IoT Hunt series focuses on the development of what we now call “thingbots,” botnets built exclusively from IoT devices. These thingbots can launch Death Star-sized […]

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How Quantum Computing Will Change Browser Encryption

This report highlights the distinction between quantum computing and quantum encryption and identifies the current amount of quantum computing exposure and how it will affect TLS.

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The Evolving Role of CISOs and Their Importance to the Business

The role of the CISO is growing in importance, as is the need to have an enterprise-wise IT security strategy that supports the company’s missions and goals. This research on the evolution and influence of the CISO is based on interviews with senior level IT professionals at 184 companies in 7 countries. The report presents the consolidated global findings to […]

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Migrating Apps to the Cloud? Read This First.

Cloud computing environments are now a dominant feature of the IT landscape with organizations moving legacy on-premises applications to the cloud with ever-increasing regularity. But migrating an application to the cloud requires more than merely moving the application to a virtual machine at a cloud provider. Different organizations have disparate motivations for cloud migration, but there are key factors every […]

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Private Cloud 101: Move at the Speed of Business

With the cloud transforming application development and deployment enabling organizations to improve flexibility, automate processes, and decrease time to market some big questions remain. One of the most important issues an organization must address is how it can best employ the smarter tools and limitless scale that the cloud offers. One way that enterprises take advantage of the benefits of […]

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The Multi-Cloud Maze: 5 Principles for Success

Most organizations are adopting several clouds and developing a multi-cloud maze. The fact is that while this multi-cloud offers nearly limitless opportunities, it also presents a series of operational challenges. Architecting a multi-cloud strategy that maximizes efficiency and agility is as much an organizational challenge as a technical one. This e-book gives you the five principles you need in order […]

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