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COMPANY NEWS: F5, today announced the appointment of Samir Sherif as senior vice president and chief information security officer (CISO).

COMPANY NEWS: F5, the global leader in multi-cloud application security and delivery, is proud to announce its impressive roster of award wins in 2023. The awards underscore the company’s commitment to innovation and excellence as well as its intense focus on making it easier for customers to maximise performance and strengthen security for all their apps, everywhere they are deployed.

COMPANY NEWS: F5 has announced its continued support for Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s OpenTelemetry, an open source framework providing a standardised collection of tools to instrument, generate, capture, and export telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) to help IT teams better analyse their solutions’ performance and behaviour.

COMPANY NEWS: F5 has announced the company’s completion of the Infosec Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) Assessment for F5 Distributed Cloud Services, highlighting F5’s ongoing commitment to its Australian customers.

5G edge and ecosystem 5G Open Innovation Lab (5G OI Lab) and its ecosystem partners F5, GXC, and Spirent Communications are collaborating on a Private Mobile Network (PMN) solution that offers greater security, control, and lower operational costs.

Consumers in ANZ are far more likely to prioritise data consent over personalised experiences with 70% of them believing consent should be sought before sharing data with third parties, well above the APAC average of 50%—higher than China and Singapore at 36%, according to F5’s 2023 Curve of Convenience Report.

Multi-cloud security and application delivery company F5 announced security capabilities to give protection and control in managing apps and APIs across data centre, cloud, hybrid, and edge locations across Australia and New Zealand.

COMPANY NEWS: F5 has announced multi-cloud networking (MCN) capabilities to easily extend application and security services across one or more public clouds, hybrid deployments, native Kubernetes environments, and edge sites.

COMPANY NEWS: F5 has announced the launch of F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP), a cloud workload protection solution that expands application observability and protection to cloud-native infrastructures. Powered by technology acquired with Threat Stack, AIP is the newest addition to the F5 Distributed Cloud Services portfolio of cloud-native SaaS-based application security and delivery services.

COMPANY NEWS: F5 has announced that Amazon Web Services customers now have access to F5’s high efficacy AI-driven bot protection through an easy to deploy connector.

Security firm F5 has released patches for vulnerabilities in its BIG-IP and BIG-IQ products, after the flaws were reported to it on 18 August by threat research outfit Rapid7.

Network equipment company Extreme Networks has appointed Carmelo Calafiore as ANZ regional director to strengthen its local management in Australia and New Zealand.

GUEST OPINION: It’s almost pointless to say that every industry is engaged in digital transformation—those that haven’t been are now relics. Though quickened by the pandemic, digitisation is inevitable and necessary not just to survive, but to thrive. As a result, organisations are making considerable changes.

Telecommunications company Optus has informed the public that its current and former data was accessed following a cyberattack on its systems, and sensitive information such as dates of birth, email addresses, and passport numbers may have been impacted in the security incident.

COMPANY NEWS: F5 today announced that Aite-Novarica Group, a financial services research and advisory firm, has ranked the company as a Best in Class provider of bot management solutions in their recently released Aite Matrix: Leading Bot Detection and Management Providers report.

COMPANY NEWS: F5 has been positioned as an Overall Leader in the 2022 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass report for Web Application Firewalls (WAFs). The report compares multiple WAF vendors across criteria such as Security, Functionality, Deployment, Interoperability, and Usability.

GUEST OPINION:  Even before the pandemic forced accelerated digital adoption in the Australian education system, technology used by educators and students alike had come leaps and bounds. From interactive smart boards and learning via tablets, to administrative systems and web-based apps, the digital transformation of the education sector fundamentally changed how students learn, and they outcomes they can achieve.

COMPANY NEWS: After findings revealed Australia and New Zealand to have been the target of more than 50 million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks between July and September 2021 alone, F5 has expanded its local DDoS protection services with the launch of two scrubbing centres to provide customers with real-time local protection, support, and expertise.

COMPANY NEWS: F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) has released F5 NGINX for Microsoft Azure, an Azure-native service offering developed in partnership with Microsoft, that it says helps customers in A/NZ deliver modern applications on Azure with just a few clicks.

Security firm F5 has disclosed a critical vulnerability in its BIG-IP product, a family of hardware and software solutions that are used for application delivery and centralised device management.