GEC NEWS WIREGulf Air revealed a cybersecurity step-change as part of an ongoing campaign to safeguard its operations and deliver industry-leading customer service. Gulf Air has reinforced its network perimeter to pre-empt and combat Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks, improve data centre and application-level security and further enhance data and access protection measures.
A key component of Gulf Air’s DDoS strategy is the deployment of the F5 DDoS Hybrid Defender. Gulf Air was keen to select a solution with F5 which is both a blend of network attacks and sophisticated application attacks. The DDoS Hybrid Defender’s features include full SSL decryption, anti-bot capabilities, and advanced detection methods. This ensures high line rate capabilities without impacting legitimate traffic.
“The solution delivers instantaneous controls and security measures against complex threats, exploits, saturation attacks, with an in-depth security mechanism that inspects application-layer events. It offers protection at all layers, protecting protocols – including those employing SSL and TLS encryption – as well as stopping DDoS bursts, randomized HTTP floods, cache bypass, and other attacks that can disrupt Gulf Air’s critical applications” said Dr. Jassim Haji, Director of Information Technology, Gulf Air.
Gulf Air’s DDoS Hybrid Defender is the latest in a long line of F5 deployments over the past eight years.
Taj El Khayat, Gulf, Levant & North Africa Director, F5 Networks, said “We are extremely proud of our long-standing relationship with Gulf Air, which is a case in point for how forward-looking, app-centric planning – combined with robust business objectives – can yield genuinely transformational results.”
