Deliver Comprehensive Application Security to Your Customers with F5 Distributed Cloud Services

An unrelenting swarm of cybersecurity threats bombards Today’s IT infrastructure. The adoption of cloud computing and the increasing interconnectedness of networks and devices has significantly enlarged attack surfaces. Deploying and managing these complex systems is challenging for security and IT teams as exploitable misconfigurations abound. Compounding the difficulty is the dearth of talent, with an estimated global shortage of 3.4 million cybersecurity workers.¹ Therefore, cybersecurity is a primary concern across all industries, as 79% of surveyed organisations cite security as a top cloud challenge.²

To help our partners address these critical cloud security challenges, Exclusive Networks provides global distribution for F5 solutions. F5 Distributed Cloud Services is a portfolio of SaaS-based security, networking, and application delivery services that enable your customers to deploy, secure, and operate their applications across public clouds, private clouds, data centres, and edge sites. F5 Distributed Cloud Services addresses your customers’ most pressing networking and security use cases.

Streamline Application Security

Multi-cloud has proliferated throughout business architectures, as 87% of organisations run applications in multi-cloud environments, with 44% running applications siloed on different clouds.³ Relying upon the cloud providers’ native protection capabilities, or a variety of point solutions makes it difficult for your customers to properly secure their disparate apps. Organisations need a comprehensive solution to fully protect their apps across multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments.

F5 Distributed Cloud Services can holistically secure your customers’ apps with its wide swath of protection capabilities, including industry-leading web application firewall, API discovery and protection, bot mitigation, and more. F5 Distributed Cloud Services can help your customers consolidate multiple point security solutions, reducing ownership costs and simplifying app lifecycle management and operations.

Eliminate Bots

Bad bot traffic accounts for up to 40% of all network traffic, hampering application performance and infecting systems with ransomware.⁴ Unfettered bot access can severely damage the bottom line, as the average global data breach in 2022 cost the targeted organisation $4.35 million.⁵

Any form of bot traffic, even those considered “good,” can still have a negative impact on your security posture. Several factors increase an organisation’s exposure to bot-related risk:

• Businesses are increasingly dependent on scraping tools and automated workloads
• The complexity of operating environments makes network traffic and application management extremely difficult
• The exploitation of vulnerabilities leading to successful attacks continues to escalate

F5 Distributed Cloud Services can thwart malicious bots from plaguing your customers’ networks. From web and mobile applications to cloud services and SaaS products, F5 Distributed Cloud Services detects and neutralises a wide array of common bot attacks (content scraping, credential stuffing, fake accounts, DNS attacks, etc.) to provide resilient protection against fraud and abuse.

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) to discover bot retooling, F5 Distributed Cloud Services adapts to stifle new and emerging bot threats. Many of the world’s largest banks, retailers, and airways trust F5. Insights gleaned from safeguarding these highly targeted organisations helps F5 to continuously enhance its bot detection and mitigation algorithms.

Deliver hassle-free bot defence configuration and management to your customers by pairing F5 Distributed Cloud Services with Exclusive Networks’ services and support.

Manage and Secure APIs

With the rising complexity of interconnected ecosystems, APIs have rapidly become an enticing target for bad actors. Many organisations have no idea how many and exactly what APIs they’re running. APIs are emerging as a favourite attack vector for cybercriminals, as Gartner predicts that by 2025, more than 50% of data theft will be due to unsecured APIs.⁶

Your customers can adeptly manage their APIs with F5 Distributed Cloud Services, which offers API discovery mapping, all API endpoints to help uncover shadow and zombie APIs. F5 Distributed Cloud API Security secures APIs by performing real-time traffic inspections, instituting encryption protocols, and enabling strict authentication and access policies.

Place your customers’ API security in good hands by utilising Exclusive Networks’ certified specialists. Our specialists leverage F5’s complete visibility to generate detailed reports about your customers’ APIs’ ongoing health and security status. Plus, Exclusive Networks’ global 24/7/365 technical support services, with lightning-fast SLAs in local languages, provide peace of mind that your customers’ APIs will be perpetually protected.

Enable Secure Agile Development Practises

The speed of the agile software development processes produces many cost and efficiency benefits. However, that speed can be a double-edged sword, as security issues can arise due to developer misconfigurations or omissions.

With F5 Distributed Cloud Services, your customers can seamlessly integrate security practices such as vulnerability scanning and threat detection into their existing DevOps workflows. F5 Distributed Cloud Services can automate the deployment of properly configured Kubernetes and container clusters to ensure developers have secure access to necessary infrastructure. By incorporating security early into the software development lifecycle, your customers’ developers can build properly configured applications from the start.

In addition, by pairing F5 Distributed Cloud Services with Exclusive Networks’ industry-leading talent and services-first ideology, you can ensure your customers’ DevOps teams have reliable and secure access to an enterprise-grade cloud platform and the resources required for agile application development.

Unleash Ultimate Security with F5 Distributed Cloud Services from Exclusive Networks

About F5
F5 is a multi-cloud application services and security company committed to bringing a better digital world to life. F5 partners with the world’s largest, most advanced organisations to secure and optimise every app and API anywhere—on premises, in the cloud, or at the edge. F5 enables organisations to provide exceptional, secure digital experiences for their customers and continuously stay ahead of threats.

For more information, go to f5.com.

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Sources:

1. (ISC)2, 2022 Cybersecurity Workforce Study, June 2022
2. Flexera, 2023 State of the Cloud Report, March 2023
3. Ibid.
4. Aite Novarica, Bot Management Matrix, May 2022
5. IBM, Cost of a data breach 2022, July 2022
6. Gartner, Predicts 2022: APIs Demand Improved Security and Management, December 2021