With organizations drowning in threats such as Denial of Service (DoS) attacks that are not well buffeted by traditional firewall defenses, channel partners may have a huge opportunity with application delivery controllers (ADCs), known in the industry as next-generation load balancers, which organizations are using to do deep packet inspection to protect against advanced attacks. A recent survey conducted among 1,000 IT organizations around the world by Applied Research on behalf of F5 Networks found that the vast majority of these organizations are considering ADCs right now if they haven't already deployed.
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42% had a firewall fail due to network-layer Denial of Service (DoS) traffic load in the past 12 months
36% of which failed in application-level DoS attacks.
38% of respondents reported that traditional safeguards understand traffic context and protect against complex, blended threats less than “somewhat well.”
31% of organizations lost revenue as a result of cyberattacks.
43% lost data as a result of traditional security failings.
50% of organizations lost productivity as a result of attacks.
The average organization reported losses $682,000 due to failure to stem those sorts of attacks.
Half of respondents believe that ADCs can replace many or most traditional safeguards.
One-third of respondents already using ADCs for security.
49% of organizations are in trials or already implementing ADCs for traffic inspection-based security.
43% are in trials or implementing for access control capabilities.
44% are in trials or implementing for application security capabilities afforded by ADCs.
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