Italian National Cybersecurity Agency (ACN) QI1/QCl

Starting June 21, 2024 the Italian National Cybersecurity Agency (ACN) has assigned the QI1 qualification to the F5 Distributed Cloud infrastructure and starting June 20, 2024 assigned QCl qualification to F5 Distributed Cloud SaaS services named Web Application Firewall & API Protection (WAAP), Volumetric DDOS Protection, API Security-L7 DDoS, Bot Defense", DNS-DNS Load Balancer and DNS Security, Multi-Cloud networking Services, Distributed Apps Edge Services and Content Delivery Network Services (CDN).The F5 Distributed Cloud infrastructure and F5 Distributed Cloud services qualified by the ACN can be found at Catalog of Digital Infrastructures and Cloud Services (Cloud Catalogue).

This cloud qualification process is aimed at ensuring the security and reliability of cloud services that are used by the Italian public administration (PA). It aims to verify that cloud service providers adhere to a set of specific security, quality, and reliability requirements, thereby contributing to the protection of the country’s critical data and infrastructure.