Written by Tim Cullen, CISSP, F5-CTS Senior Security Architect at ADAPTURE In our recent post about the new F5 iSeries line of products, we discussed some of the hardware changes and performance increases the iSeries boasts. I wanted to take this conversation a step further and discuss how to fully utilize that hardware with a software solution package [...]
Written by Tim Cullen, CISSP, F5-CTS Senior Security Architect at ADAPTURE What is F5 Ticketbleed? In late October, a vulnerability was discovered that affects all versions of F5 TMOS from versions 11.4 to 12.1. This was originally discovered by Filippo Valsorda of the Cloudflare Crypto Team. (You can read about how the vulnerability was detected by reading Filippo’s blog [...]
A recent report by Sandvine, a networking equipment company based in Ontario, Canada, shows that encrypted SSL network traffic has been rapidly growing. SSL encrypted traffic in North America, for instance, grew from 2.29 percent in 2013 to 3.8 percent in 2014, while Europe’s encrypted SSL network traffic usage grew from 1.47 percent to 6.1 percent over the [...]
Heartbleed. Shellshock. Backoff. These aren’t titles to the latest Halloween thriller, but for those who know, they’re scary enough to be. 2014 has been a terrifying year for security. With attacks on Retail, eCommerce, Healthcare, Finance and even non-profits, no one is safe, and it feels like we are falling into our own digital version of World War [...]
