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F5 Teams with Oracle to Deliver Extended Identity Management

Thursday 15 June 2006

F5 BIG-IP® and FirePass® products now integrate with Oracle® Identity Management.

F5 Networks, Inc. announced that it is part of the Oracle® Extended Identity Management Ecosystem and Reference Architecture. Joint F5 and Oracle customers can now leverage F5 BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manger and FirePass® SSL VPN products in conjunction with Oracle Identity Management to deliver market leading security, lights-out availability, increased flexibility, and superior performance for today's heterogeneous IT environments.

Support of Oracle's Identity and Access Management products positions F5 as a key networking infrastructure partner in the Oracle Extended Identity Management Ecosystem and Reference Architecture, designed to deliver a comprehensive, unified blueprint for enterprise security capabilities that span network, legacy, and physical access applications, along with strong authentication.

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"Enterprise IT security has become increasingly complex, costly, and difficult to manage, which is the enemy of a comprehensive and efficient security plan," said Jim Ritchings, Vice President of Business Development at F5. "The Oracle Extended Identity Management Ecosystem promises to deliver a robust, cost-effective, and manageable security solution, better enabling corporations to meet strict compliance standards. We are proud to partner with Oracle in this industry-leading initiative."

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When coupled with Oracle Identity Management, F5's FirePass SSL VPN solution allows applications built on Oracle, Oracle Applications and the network to be securely accessed from diverse remote devices, offering organizations comprehensive security policies and access enforcement. In addition, by leveraging F5's unique TMOS architecture and advanced traffic routing capabilities, F5's BIG-IP product helps ensure that the infrastructure that Oracle Identity Management provides access to is secure, fast, and available.

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"The F5 commitment to achieving industry-leading access control and application security without sacrificing performance adds value to the Oracle Extended Identity Management Ecosystem," said Hasan Rizvi, vice president, Security and Identity Management Products, at Oracle. "This distinctive collaboration extends application-fluency, performance, and security to diverse enterprise IT environments, helping them to better account for current and future compliance requirements."

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F5 is an Oracle Certified Partner member of the Worldwide Oracle PartnerNetwork.

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