5 Questions to Ask your Load Balancer Vendor

By Ona Blanchette | Date posted: April 22, 2014

Heartbleed, the recent security flaw found in OpenSSL, is just one of many flaws discovered in this open source code base. Many load balancer providers have bolted on OpenSSL to manage SSL traffic through their product. Here are five questions you should ask to ensure you are not at risk for more OpenSSL flaws: Read more

Load balancers that use OpenSSL

By Mamoon Yunus | Date posted: April 18, 2014

A list of market leading load balancers that use OpenSSL to protect HTTP and FTP traffic includes F5, Citrix, Radware, Riverbed, and Barracuda.  Load balancers spread traffic amongst multiple servers and enable high availability for business transactions. They serve as a central conduit for critical business transactions. The load balancer vendors have done a good job in patching their products to prevent the latest OpenSSL vulnerability: Heartbleed.

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