Latin America. FireEye, Inc. and F5 Networks announced a global partnership to provide defense against evolving security threats affecting businesses. Customers will benefit from total security solutions that integrate F5® application delivery infrastructure and advanced threat protection from FireEye Network Security. The agreement also includes a unified approach to worldwide sales, implementation and support, ensuring the best possible end-to-end experience for customers.
"Our partnership with F5 addresses critical business issues for our customers — supporting business by leveling IT growth and security )," said Steve Pataky, fireeye's vice president of global channels and alliances. "We have consistently seen a complementary delivery cycle with F5, and we can now provide imperceptible joint engagement for customers, in addition to the support and reach needed to protect more organizations around the world."
Enterprise IT departments face the challenge of supporting cloud-based applications and mobile environments while maintaining network reliability, security, and speed. The partnership between FireEye and F5 will be characterized by the integration of key application delivery technologies with advanced threat management platforms to accelerate application deployment, performance, and security. Customers will also benefit from the following:
A comprehensive security solution that combines application delivery infrastructure with advanced content security, including: network segmentation and policy management, protocol adherence, DDoS mitigation, SSL inspection, advanced threat protection, intrusion prevention, threat intelligence, forensics and analytics.
Performance, scale and high availability in environments with heavy network traffic using the condition monitoring and load balancing capabilities of the BIG-IP® platform. This enables customers to scale and protect against advanced threats in the most demanding application environments.
Integrated security architecture that delivers advanced content security by improving visibility into the growing flow of encrypted traffic. In addition, industry-leading threat intelligence, and aggregated events and alerts, reduce security silos and provide more detailed, less timely insights into malicious activities and incursions across the enterprise.
"The cybersecurity problem is multifaceted and requires a solution that includes technology from industry-leading security solution manufacturers such as FireEye and F5, closely linked to people and processes in a holistic approach," said Todd Weber, vice president of partner research at Optiv. "We are pleased to see two of our trusted partners collaborate so closely and can't wait to work with them to help our customers better protect their applications and networks in this mobile and cloud world."
"This partnership brings together two leaders in application delivery and network security to help their customers overcome their most daunting security challenges today," said Calvin Rowland, senior vice president of business development at F5. "We are excited about this partnership because it goes beyond a technology integration. Our unified approach to engagement and solution delivery will bring a great global experience to our customers."
"Today, enterprises require a holistic security approach that champions an extended presence," said Jon Oltsik, senior principal analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. "The partnership of FireEye and F5 provides significant capability to security teams combining detection and hardening for data centers and applications. This partnership is a valuable way to help CISOs (or information security managers) defend themselves in a simpler and more logical way."
