F5 Supports DNSSEC

SEATTLE -- F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced that its BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM) product helps customers deploy powerful Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) protection for .com and other Internet domain types. By incorporating DNS security capabilities into their IT infrastructures, customers can drastically reduce the risks of threats such as cache poisoning, domain hijacking, man-in-the-middle, and DNS redirection attacks. Defending against these specific attacks helps customers mitigate the risk of customer data theft, fraud, or other malicious activity. With the help of F5 DNSSEC solutions, organizations can deliver secure, dynamically signed responses in real time for all internet domains, including the recently signed top-level .com domain.

On March 31, VeriSign announced that the top-level domain for .com - the Internet's largest domain with more than 90 million domain name registrations worldwide - now supports DNS Security Extensions. With this development, all major generic top-level domains (.org, .edu, .net, and .gov) support DNSSEC, signifying that the broader DNSSEC infrastructure is ready for production. This is an important step that enables organizations to realize the significant benefits of deploying DNSSEC capabilities for their specific domain names. Accordingly, because organizations managing .com sites can now configure their infrastructures to digitally sign their domain names, an increasing number of DNSSEC-focused technology deployments are expected worldwide. A digitally signed domain name provides an added layer of infrastructure security to help ensure data integrity and increase customer confidence.

To help organizations best address DNSSEC considerations, F5 established an innovative technology partnership with Infoblox, the industry leader in network infrastructure automation and control solutions. Together, these companies offer a comprehensive, integrated solution that provides industry-leading global load balancing, real-time signing, enhanced DNS management, and simplified DNSSEC deployment. "The combination of BIG-IP GTM with Infoblox IPv6- and DNSSEC-ready DDI appliances delivers a complete end-to-end, secure, scalable, and manageable DNS infrastructure along with multi-data center traffic management and disaster recovery," said Cricket Liu, Vice President of Architecture and Technology at Infoblox and author of O'Reilly Media's best-selling series of books on DNS.

"Security is a crucial, integrated part of our solution offerings, and we understand organizations' need to defend against emerging attacks while maintaining an agile, optimized IT infrastructure overall," said Dan Matte, SVP of Marketing and Business Development at F5. "By making it easy for customers to add security capabilities such as DNSSEC or DDoS protection into their environments, we can help them defend their information - and their brand - without sacrificing performance for users. Because F5's Application Delivery Controllers can intelligently process application traffic traversing the network, they're in an ideal position to thwart many targeted attacks, helping organizations implement comprehensive, end-to-end security solutions."

F5 Networks Inc. (Nasdaq: FFIV)