Web application firewalls (WAFs) are an integral component of application protection. They are excellent at protection against the OWASP (The Open Web Application Security Project) Top 10 and are a go-to solution for addressing zero-day vulnerabilities – but where do you put them?
There is general shift by most organisations from traditional IT to the big public cloud, allowing them to respond better and faster to both business and customer needs.According to Dennis Naidoo, senior systems engineer: Middle East, Africa and Turkey at Tintri, a leading producer of VM-aware storage (VAS) for virtualisation and enterprise cloud, it is widely accepted that public cloud delivers greater efficiencies for scale, agility and opex-based economics.
Results from the first ever 25, 50 and 100Gb Ethernet Plugfest, driven by the 25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium, are in and the multi-vendor interoperability event yielded some very promising results that showcase the level of maturity of the technology.
F5's major enhancements to the industry-leading BIG-IP iSeries of application delivery controllers is now available to African enterprises.
"The new iSeries devices have received significant attention in the data centre and networking communities globally," notes Anton Jacobsz, managing director at Networks Unlimited, an authorised value-added distributor of F5 products throughout Africa.
Firewalls are generally viewed as the tactical response to keeping attackers out of corporate networks. They're the walls around the castle, so to say, the sandbags along the river, the firebreak in the wilderness trying to stop a rampaging fire.
