FullProxy Delivers the Full Power of F5 Technologies

FullProxy, an F5 Gold Tier partner in Glasgow, Scotland, helps secure apps for customers in industries ranging from financial services and healthcare to retail and the automotive industry. With fewer than a dozen employees, the firm nonetheless serves organizations with a global presence. Its staff draws on unusually deep technical understanding of the F5 platform to reap maximum benefit from existing solutions, deploy cybersecurity strategies delivering more than the sum of the parts, and nurture IT performance and investment returns for customers.

Most FullProxy customers—like organizations around the world—operate with limited resources, while regulatory compliance only gets more complex. The pace of technological change also means most IT teams struggle with a chronic shortage of skills, even as attacks on applications continue to escalate.

“It can be difficult to balance all that,” says FullProxy cofounder and CEO Ewan Ferguson. 

Meanwhile, automated attacks make even the smallest app or website a target today. “Customers don’t realize how sophisticated the bad actors are these days in terms of probing and penetration of any assets on the Internet,” says Chris Templeton, FullProxy CTO and cofounder.

“It’s happening at the speed of automation, and realistically you have to be defending it at that speed as well,” Ferguson adds. “People are finding it hard to keep up. Customers try to solve the problem by buying one of every technology, but that actually creates more problems than it solves.”

That’s where FullProxy’s technical expertise shines—correcting the proliferation of point solutions and often solving multiple challenges with a single, flexible technology platform from F5. 

In improving their customers’ app security and performance, FullProxy frequently helps customers make greater use of existing F5 investments to conserve limited IT resources and increase overall ROI. 

“There’s a reason we’re called FullProxy,” says Ferguson. “We have other technologies, but we’re very, very focused on F5.” In less than a decade, his team has cultivated expertise that sets the company apart and enables it to address a wide variety of customer needs using existing investments—often in innovative ways. 

For instance, he recalls helping an energy company create F5 iRules and policies to meet objectives that might otherwise have required additional investments. “You can be very creative on the platform,” he says. “We really pride ourselves on our concrete knowledge and experience beyond what the book says. There are often multiple ways to do things, and that gives F5 solutions power.” 

In addition, he points out that the F5 portfolio is dynamic, changing in relevant ways over time to address evolving threats such as fraud and DDoS attacks and adding delivery models such as managed services. He says, “The portfolio is broad and robust, and the depth of what each product can do gives the customer incredible flexibility.  When a customer asks, ‘Can F5 do this?’ the answer is rarely no.”

FullProxy draws on this power and flexibility to keep customers secure, maximize the value of both new and existing solutions, and build long-term relationships.