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The Top Ten Hardcore F5 Security Features in BIG-IP 11.6

There are 32 main features in the 11.6 release of the BIG-IP family of products and 29 of those are security features. That’s right; 91% of the features in the 11.6 release are security-related. Many...
Published Oct 31, 2014
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advanced firewall manager
ASM Advanced WAF
security
TMOS
virtualization
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Jan 09, 2015
Great article, but I think you should clarify 1 as you mentioned that F5 has been offloading SSL to external devices for almost 2 years but yet it is a "new" features (so basically the 1 title should be the ability to offload to leverage SSL Crypto operations from one BIG-IP system to other BIG-IP systems; which is much more precise and accurate).

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