F5
“ POINT SOLUTIONS WERE YESTERDAY ' S STATE-OF-THE-ART FOR THE SECURITY BATTLEGROUND . NOW THE ATTACKERS ARE ON A DIFFERENT LEVEL .”
GENG LIN EVP AND CTO , F5
tools . In May 2019 , F5 acquired NGINX , the creator of a widely adopted open source platform for microservices and distributed web applications globally . NGINX open source powers more than one-third of the world ’ s web applications across all types of environments . F5 ' s CEO François Locoh-Donou stated : “ We believe that with our combined F5-NGINX solutions , our customers – from the app developer to the network engineer to the security specialist – will for the first time benefit from the agility and flexibility enabled by modern technologies without compromising on the time-tested fundamentals of security , manageability , and reliability . F5 is 100 % committed to the continued innovation and increasing investment in the NGINX open source project .”
In the meantime , security , too , took on new levels of importance as attackers began to exploit automation and a growing cadre of connected devices . Infrastructure and application attacks grew to unprecedented
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