Paragon Data GmbH
Paragon Data, based in Friedrichsdorf near Frankfurt am Main, is an innovative IT service provider within the DBH Buch Handels GmbH & Co. KG. Paragon Data operates the parent company's data center and supports more than 100 stores - each with up to 80,000 items in stock and over 10 million items that can be created - with a high-performance, secure and stable IT infrastructure. In addition, Paragon Data provides central services such as consulting, application development, service desk, data center operation and many more for internal and external customers.
Customer since:
2012
Industry:
Internet and information technology
City:
Friedrichsdorf
Web Application Firewalling /Load Balancing F5
Requirements
- Paragon wants to move the existing SOAP-based customer connection to a web-based architecture for an important customer.
- The customer's applications needed to be equally protected from web-based internal and external attacks.
- The goal of the project was to integrate an additional layer of protection for web applications using a dedicated web application firewall (based on consistent whitelisting).
Services & Solutions
- Support during commissioning
- Hardware refresh - the existing platform was replaced with a new model at a reasonable cost.
- Bandwidth requirements at Paragon and the end customer were analyzed and a forecast was made for future throughput requirements.
- An extremely future-proof and high-performance platform from the F5 Networks solution portfolio was used (BIG-IP 2000s with a Layer 7 throughput of 5 Gbps and around 75,000 Layer 4 connections per second).
Advantages & Benefits
- The innovative new security platform combines reliable application-level protection with powerful load balancing.
- Efficient and secure operation of critical applications is guaranteed.
- The F5 solution provides a holistic architecture for DoS and DDos defense.
- Due to the positive experience with the BIG-IP platform, this solution can also be offered as a managed service to other customers.
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Solution partner:
F5 Networks
F5 is a multi-cloud application services and security company committed to bringing a better digital world to life. F5 partners with the world’s largest, most advanced organizations to secure and optimize every app and API anywhere — on premises, in the cloud, or at the edge. F5 enables organizations to provide exceptional, secure digital experiences for their customers and continuously stay ahead of threats. For more information, go to f5.com. (NASDAQ: FFIV)
