WhiteHat Security and F5 Team to Battle Attacks Against Enterprise and eCommerce Websites

LONDON, MARCH 10, 2008 – WhiteHat Security and F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV) today announced a partnership agreement. The partnership yields a uniquely powerful and efficient solution that provides organisations with a new means of combating the onslaught of website attacks that place customer and corporate data at risk. F5’s open iControl API provides the integration between WhiteHat Sentinel, the industry-leading website vulnerability management solution, and the award-winning F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager™ (ASM™) web application firewall. As part of this agreement, WhiteHat has also joined F5’s Technology Alliance Program.

“The integrated solution brings the entire industry to a new level of website protection—with extreme accuracy and efficiency,” said Stephanie Fohn, Chief Executive Officer at WhiteHat Security. “Customers have been waiting for a solution that delivers rapid identification and immediate repair of vulnerabilities. The F5-WhiteHat alliance makes complete website security simpler than ever for the end-user.”

A web-based subscription service, WhiteHat Sentinel combines advanced proprietary scanning technology with expert analysis, enabling customers to identify, prioritise, manage, and remediate website vulnerabilities as they occur. F5’s ASM provides proactive network and application-layer protection from generalised and targeted attacks by understanding the user interaction with the application. Through the F5 iControl API, WhiteHat Sentinel will be able to directly configure policies on F5’s ASM to protect against vulnerability exploits (e.g., cross-site scripting, parameter tampering, SQL injection) found during the scanning process.