Awards - Accolades

NetworkWorld Asia Information Management Awards 2018

F5 is named the best Application Delivery Controller for the 5th time, the best in DDoS Protection for the 4th time, and managed to win our 1st award in Managed Security Services for the Silverline product!

Best B2B PR Campaign at PR Awards 2018

F5 claimed a win in the Best B2B PR campaign category at the 2018 PR Awards.

CRN 2018 Channel Chiefs

F5 executives David Helfer and Aldo Dossola recognized by CRN as 2018 Channel Chiefs.

SC Awards 2018 -- Best Web Application Solution

F5 captures award for BIG-IP Application Security Manager and Silverline Web Application Firewall service.

JUST Companies 2017

F5 is named America’s Most JUST Company in the Technology Hardware & Equipment industry sector in 2017 by the JUST Capital Foundation.

JUST Companies 2016

F5 is named America’s Most JUST Company in the Technology Hardware & Equipment industry sector in 2016 by the JUST Capital Foundation.

SC Awards 2016 -- Best Web Application Solution

F5 captures award for BIG-IP Application Security Manager and Silverline Web Application Firewall service.

Glassdoor 2016 Employees’ Choice Awards

F5 has been named a “Best Place to Work” in the U.S., based on the Glassdoor 2016 Employees’ Choice Awards.

Puget Sound Business Journal -- Leadership, Innovation, and Technology Awards

F5 is named as an Innovation All-Star in the Public Company category at PSBJ's Leadership, Innovation and Technology Awards

F5 Named as the Best Place to Work in Western Washington by KING5

Once again, F5 was honored by KING5 as the best place to work in Western Washington for 2015

F5 enters 2015 Networks Asia Readers' Choice Awards Hall of Fame for DDoS Protection

F5 enters Networks Asia Readers' Choice Awards, Hall of Fame, which recognizes vendors who have won awards for 3 consecutive years or more.

F5 named winner of Data Center Application Delivery/Availability at 2015 Networks Asia Readers' Choice Product Excellence Awards

F5 named winner of Data Center Application Delivery/Availability category at 2015 Networks Asia Readers' Choice Product Excellence Awards.

F5 Receives Frost & Sullivan 2015 Asia Pacific Application Delivery Controller Vendor of the Year Award, recognised as market leader for seventh consecutive year

F5 honored for company’s continous growth and performance in 2015 while listening to the needs of the market and providing solutions to meet the new d...

F5 Wins LiveWire Award

F5 commended for Innovation & Excellence in Application Delivery Networking.

F5's BIG-IP ASM Wins Readers' Trust Award for Best Web App Solution at the 2015 SC Awards

At the 2015 RSA Conference, SC Magazine awarded F5  the readers' choice award for Best Web Application Solution for their s BIG-IP Application Security Manager. F5 BIG-IP ASM is an agile, scalable web application firewall, securing...

Seattle Business Magazine's 2015 Executive Excellence Awards

F5 Product Development EVP & Chief Technology Officer Karl Triebes honored for innovation and technology leadership.

F5 Wins Technical Partner of the Year Award from VMware

F5 honored for delivering added value to customers deploying VMware virtualization and cloud solutions. F5 was recognized for both its global and regional/Americas partnership efforts in the Technical Partner of the Year category at the 2015 VMware Partner Exchange event.

F5 Ranked #4 in Glassdoor Award

F5 ranks as #4 out of the top 50 best places to work among large companies in the US. Companies were ranked by their employee reviews on Glassdoor.com for attributes including career opportunities, compensation, benefits, work/life balance, senior management, as well as culture and values.

F5 Wins LTE North America Award

F5 Traffix SDC wins Best LTE Roaming Product Award in the 2014 LTE North America Awards at the summit in Dallas, Texas, recognizing innovative products in the North American LTE market.

BIG-IP APM Honored for Identity & Access Management in TechTarget Readers' Choice Awards

F5’s BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) was named a winner in the Identity and Access Management category of the Information Security magazine and SearchSecurity.com 2014 Readers’ Choice Awards, rated by over 1,700 information security executives and managers.

F5 Shortlisted in Green Technology Category in Telecoms.com Awards

F5 VIPRION has been shortlisted in the 2014 Telecoms.com Awards in the Green Technology category, recognizing work among the service provider and vendor community to reduce the environmental impact of the industry.

F5 Receives Frost & Sullivan 2014 Asia Pacific Application Delivery Controller Vendor of the Year Award, recognised as market leader for sixth consecutive year

The award was conferred based on the company’s exemplary growth and performance in 2014 in the Asia Pacific region.

F5 Wins AirWatch Enterprise Mobility Innovation Excellence Award

Mobile Innovation Award: Recognizes F5 as an AirWatch partner that has integrated with the AirWatch platform in the most innovative and creative ways to benefit its customers. 

F5 Presented with Best Cloud Automation Partner Solution at VMworld 2014

F5 Networks Management Plug-in for vCenter Orchestrator awarded for being a top downloaded solution in the Cloud Management Marketplace on VMware Solution Exchange.

F5's Shortlisted for Two LTE World Summit Awards

F5 finalist for awards in the categories of "NFV Innovation of the Year" and "Best LTE Roaming/IPX Product" 

Diana Young Honored for Promoting Diversity at the 2014 Corporate Counsel Awards

F5's Senior Corporate Counsel, Diana Young, has been named the 2014 Diversity Champion at the Corporate Counsel Awards, recognizing her efforts to promote diversity within F5 and in the greater legal community.

SC Magazine Europe Shortlists Versafe TotALL™ Online Fraud Protection Suite

The SC Awards Europe honour professionals working to secure enterprises of all sizes and the vendors that deliver innovative security technologies.  

BIG-IP Application Security Manager TMOS 11.5 gets Bronze in Information Security's Global Excellence Awards

F5 Networks' BIG-IP ASM TMOS 11.5 placed Bronze in "Web Application Security" at Information Security's 10th annual Global Excellence Awards

F5's DDoS Protection Solution v 11.5 is Bronze in Information Security's Global Excellence Awards

F5 Networks' DDoS Protection Solution v 11.5 placed Bronze in the "Best Security Hardware Product" category at Information Security's 10th annual Global Excellence Awards

BIG-IP Access Policy Manager v 11.5 Wins Gold in Information Security's Global Excellence Awards

F5 Networks' BIG-IP APM v 11.5 was named the Gold winner in the Access category at Information Security's 10th annual Global Excellence Awards.

F5 Traffix SDC Shortlisted for Best Mobile Infrastructure at the Global Mobile Awards 2014

F5 Traffix SDC Shortlisted for Best Mobile Infrastructure at the Global Mobile Awards 2014.

F5's Jim Ritchings and Keith McManigal Named CRN 2014 Channel Chiefs

Channel Chiefs are recognized for their dedication to the partner community and their ability to drive channel sales growth while promoting the value of the channel in the industry.

F5 Named an IBM Beacon Award Finalist

The IBM Beacon Awards recognize IBM Business Partners who have delivered exceptional solutions using IBM products and services. 

F5 Wins Networking Innovation Award for BIG-IP's Platform Intelligence

F5 was the February winner of SearchNetworking's Network Innovation Award for the 11.4 release of its BIG-IP software.

Editor's Choice for Network Virtualization at Virtualization Review's Readers Choice Awards

F5's BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager VE won Editor's Choice for Network Virtualization at Virtualization Review's Readers Choice Awards.

Puget Sound Business Journal Names John McAdam Executive of the Year for 2013

F5 has shown significant revenue and profit growth, made acquisitions and dominated its market, while McAdam’s influence on the next generation of tech companies has grown. All those achievements are among the reasons he was named Executive of the...

F5 Named to Network World’s List of 25 most Powerful Enterprise Networking Companies

F5’s Synthesis and ADC products help make the company one of the biggest players on the network.

F5 Networks Australia Voted ADC Vendor of the Year by Frost & Sullivan

Frost & Sullivan Named F5 Networks Australia Application Delivery Controller Vendor of the Year at the 2013 Australia Excellence Awards.

SDN Spotlight: 8 New Products to Shake Things Up

Synthesis Architecture Spotlighted as One of CRN's "8 New SDN Products Set to Shake Things Up"

F5 BIG-IP ASM Receives 4 ¾ Star Rating from SC Magazine

SC Magazine rated F5’s BIG-IP Application Security Manager 4 ¾ stars in their Application and Database product review.

BIG-IP ASM: Bronze Winner in TechTarget’s “Best Web App Firewalls”

F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager won Bronze in TechTarget’s “Best Web Application Firewalls 2013”.

John McAdam Makes List of the 50 Most Powerful People in Enterprise Tech

F5 CEO, John McAdam, was named to Business Insider’s prestigious list of the 50 Most Powerful People in Enterprise Tech.

F5 Wins 2013 Telecoms.com LTE Award

F5 Traffix Signaling Delivery Controller recognized with a Telecoms.com LTE Award in the Best LTE Core Network Element category. 

Three F5 Employees Highlighted as CRN’s 2013 Women of the Channel

Cindy Tregoning, Mary Beach, and Lisa Citron were recognized as 2013 Women of the Channel for their expertise and vision in the partner community.

Cindy Tregoning Named to CRN’s Power 100: Most Powerful Women in the Channel

CRN honored F5’s Sr. Worldwide Channel Programs Manager, Cindy Tregoning, as one the 100 most powerful women in the channel. 

F5 Selected as a 2013 HP AllianceOne Partner of the Year

F5 received the 2013 AllianceOne Partner of the Year award in the Cloud Computing category.

F5 is a Finalist in the Puget Sound Business Journal’s Washington’s Best Workplaces Competition

The 2013 Washington’s Best Workplaces finalists were selected from more than 300 nominated companies based on employee satisfaction survey scores.

F5 Named to Forbes’ Fast Tech 25

F5 featured as one of America's Fastest Growing Tech Companies for 2013in Forbes' Fast Tech 25.

F5 Featured in Corporate Counsel Magazine’s Best Legal Departments Issue

F5 selected as a finalist in the magazine’s Best Legal Departments competition for 2013.

Lori MacVittie Named One of the Top Ten Women in Cloud

CloudNOW recognized F5’s Lori MacVittie at the second Annual Top 10 Women in Cloud Innovation Awards.