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Integrating security, availability, and application acceleration services to enable context-aware networking.

Domain Name System (DNS) provides one of the most basic but critical functions on the Internet. If DNS isn’t working, then your business likely isn’t either. Secure your business and web presence with Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC).

Both Denial-of-Service (DoS) and Brute Force Attacks have existed for many years, and many network devices tout the ability to withstand them. However, most of today’s DoS attacks target layer 7 (L7) by overwhelming applications with seemingly valid requests and Brute Force programs can send more than one million attempts per second. This paper will discuss how to intelligently mitigate these types of attacks.

BIG‑IP Application Security Manager v10.1 brings the visibility, control, and flexibility necessary to defend applications and comply with regulations without sacrificing manageability.

Delivering applications to remote users is a significant undertaking. Applications need to be available, and they must be delivered securely and quickly.

Cloud computing has become another key resource for IT deployments, but there is still fear of securing applications and data in the cloud. With F5 devices, you can keep your most precious assets safe, no matter where they live.

The TippingPoint Reputation Digital Vaccine® Service (Rep DV) provides IPv4, IPv6 and Domain Name System (DNS) security intelligence feeds from a global reputation database so that customers can actively enforce and manage reputation security policies using the TippingPoint Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) Platform. The TippingPoint IPS Platform acts as an enforcement point, inspecting traffic in real-time, identifying "known bad" traffic and enforcing Rep DV security policies.

TippingPoint security solutions are deployed by thousands of organizations worldwide, including many Fortune 1000 and Global 1000 companies. The combination of purpose–built intrusion prevention system (IPS) platforms, enterprise-class management, and industry-leading threat research and security filter development has positioned TippingPoint as a trusted partner for securing the largest data centers.

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Enterprise IT departments need to respond with agility to business needs and demand fluctuations, which existing data center architectures cannot achieve. Private cloud computing—highly scalable IT resources abstracted from an underlying infrastructure and provided as needed in a multi-tenant environment—has emerged as a prime vehicle for creating agile IT environments.