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Splunk and F5 Team up to Deliver Advanced Search, Analysis and Reporting Capabilities
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 25, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ --
Splunk Inc., the IT Search company,
today announced their partnership with F5 Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: FFIV), the
global leader in Application Delivery Networking, bringing innovative IT
Search and reporting capabilities to the leading application infrastructure
technology. Splunk and F5 have created Splunk for use with F5 solutions,
running on the Splunk IT Search engine. Splunk for use with F5 solutions
enables users to meet the complex needs of incident response, threat analysis
and compliance and is designed specifically to work with the F5(R) BIG-IP(R)
Application Security Manager(TM) (ASM(TM)) and FirePass(R) SSL VPN solutions,
with other F5 product-specific interoperability to follow.
Splunk for use with F5 solutions provides security event search
correlation, visualization and reporting for large-scale enterprises and
carrier grade networks. With the ability to search and index data from any
server, application or network device, Splunk for use with F5 solutions works
across all the IT components in complex infrastructures including Web
Application Firewalls and SSL VPNs, providing security teams pre-built
searches, alerts and for a more complete understanding of any security
threats.
"Enterprise customers demand technologies that validate and visualize the
effectiveness of their security solutions," said Mark Vondemkamp, Director of
Product Management, Security at F5. "Having the right tools in place to be
able to report on threats before they create chaos is essential. With the
Splunk application, our customers are able to more easily meet the complex
needs of compliance, security alerting and reporting -- increasing their
ability to detect and respond to threats, and minimizing the risk of
disruption, harmful events and punitive fines."
Splunk for use with F5 solutions delivers real-time information regarding
security breaches and compliance that empower F5 customers to detect and halt
these threats before they become costly or damaging to business. Splunk IT
Search arms these organizations with an up-to-the-moment understanding of the
IT infrastructure, without compromising access to mission critical systems or
confidential data.
"The changing threat landscape in large-scale enterprise and carrier grade
networks requires the ability to obtain real-time situational awareness," said
Michael Baum, Co-founder and Chief Corporate & Business Development Officer,
Splunk. "Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for
the Application Delivery Controller market, F5 is at the center of tremendous
critical security data. The combination of F5 and Splunk lets system and
security administrators quickly understand new and changing attacks in the
moment."
Product Features
Examples of the advanced searches and reports accessible for F5 ASM
include:
-- Top violations
-- Top violations by protocol (HTTP, FTP, SMTP)
-- Top HTTP violations by web application
-- Top attackers
-- Top attackers by protocol (HTTP, FTP, SMTP)
-- Top web applications attacked, alerted or blocked
-- Top web applications alerted by IP address
-- Attacks by location
-- Top response codes by web application
-- Top alerted or blocked web application requests by time period
-- Web application requests by method
-- Custom ASM forensics filtering & search
Examples of the advanced searches and reports accessible for F5 FirePass
SSL VPN include:
-- Detailed User, Browser, OS and Session Statistics
-- Configuration Change Statistics
-- Failed Logon Statistics
Splunk for use for F5 solutions can be installed as an add-on
"application" to the core Splunk application, and can be easily configured to
filter and report on any information available in the F5 product log files.
Product Pricing & Availability
Splunk for use with F5 solutions is free (indexing up to 500 MB a day) for
Splunk users and F5 customers, and is available for download at:
http://www.splunk.com/partners/f5
About Splunk
Splunk is the IT Search company innovating large-scale, high-speed
indexing for IT infrastructures. The company's freely downloadable software
indexes and makes it possible to search and navigate data from any
application, server or network device in real time. Logs, configurations,
messages, traps and alerts, scripts and metrics: if a machine can generate it
-- Splunk can index it. It's easy to download, install and use, and is very
powerful. More than 750 enterprises, government organizations, and service
providers and more than 250,000 users are achieving higher availability,
investigating security incidents in record time, and meeting compliance
requirements at lower costs with Splunk. Over 50 OEM, System Integrator,
Value Added Reseller and Managed Service Provider partners have fuelled their
offerings with IT Search. Partners such as BT, Cisco, and F5 Networks are
driving new business with innovative products powered by Splunk. Download
your own free copy today at http://www.splunk.com.
The Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with
permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace
at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how
certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by
Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in
the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those
vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. Gartner disclaims all warranties,
express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of
merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
F5, BIG-IP, Application Security Manager, ASM, and FirePass are either
registered trademarks or trademarks of F5 Networks, Inc., in the United States
and/or other countries. Splunk is a registered trademark of Splunk Inc.
SOURCE Splunk Inc.
http://www.splunk.com
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