Milestone Systems, Inc., a 10-year-old firm based in Minnesota USA, provides solutions that ensure high availability & network security for mission-critical applications. Products and services include (1) Consulting & implementation on network security design, (2) network appliances for security, acceleration, high availability, (3) professional training on those appliance techologies, and (4) managed services such 24x7 support desk, Tech-on-Tap, network audit.

Milestone is proud to sell & support outstanding network appliance brands for high availability and network security. M101

“We saw a 60% performance increase in SharePoint after we implemented BIG-IP WebAccelerator.” ....comment from a senior network architect

A whitepaper examining criteria for deciding between IPsec or SSL VPN

FireEye network appliances secure against broad and targeted information, identity, and resource theft due to modern malware.

Milestone is proud to offer Juniper's EX Series Ethernet Switches -- for high-performance, carrier-class solutions built to meet the needs of today's converged branch-office, campus, and data center networks.

Illustration showing where F5 controllers fit into the enterprise network.

Brief description of each of the Blue Coat network devices.

Gartner's Magic Quadrant proves that F5 Networks continues to provide the highest performance and best value in Application Delivery Controllers.

Gartner ranks Juniper as one of the TOP TWO Network Access Control (NAC)

Gartner ranks Palo Alto Networks as a LEADER in the Magic Quadrant!

Illustration of how Blue Coat Proxy Appliances Fit into your network

Blue Coat offers 2 new & improved proxy appliances, for both desktop & rack-mount.

Gartner places Riverbed as the top leader in the magic quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers.

F5's Application Security Manager (ASM) network appliance can defend your enterprise against DDoS attacks!

News story from Security Week magazine on the prevalence of DDoS attacks.

Now F5 enables painless scalability for your Application Delivery Network!

The video will make you smile. The VIPRION itself will make you jump for joy!

Let Milestone Systems provide an independent view and unbiased assessment of your network applications security -- to identify potential vulnerabilities and recommend remediation steps before problems arise.

Milestone provides 24x7 support at Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 for F5 application delivery controllers.

Free up your staff for other tasks and take advantage of Milestone's specialty knowledge with our managed services solutions such as gap coverage, system tune-up, tech brief alerts, and more.

Milestone offers project management and leadership in Infrastructure Project Mangement, Security & Compliance, Computer Network Architecture, Specialized On-Demand Experts, Network Security Engineering

If your F5 load balancers have been added at different times, Milestone's holistic audit of the entire group can assess that they are operating optimally for PCI and other compliance -- that is, with 100%  availability, at peak efficiency, and with unquestioned security.

Cart, Horses, Device, and Policies  -- The 10 Key Elements of Effective Network Security Policies, by Milestone Systems' Audit & Security Manager, Rob Edinger, CISSP. Rob originally presented this material on 12-8-10 at the Minnesota Government IT Symposium in St Paul MN.

Overview of SecureAuth features & benefits

Comparison chart of SecureAuth and RSA features

This brief video explains why a new generation of threat protection is necessary!

How to Safely Enable Social Media

Firewall Buyers Guide

Report on FireEye's extensive research on APT's in the first half of 2011. PDF format.

Comprehensive training in F5, Cisco IronPort, and Blue Coat network appliances -- taught by certified engineers with real-world experience -- with a stay-awake combination of lecture, discussion, and hands-on lab exercises.Click here for current class schedule.

Milestone's experienced programmers can create iRules for your F5 appliances to customize them beyond standard.

Truly innovative, the Palo Alto Networks firewall is designed for today's internet challenges! You'll have buser-based visibility and quality of service policy control of applications and content running on enterprise networks.

Find the bundle that has exactly what you need.

Open this doc for specs on the various sizes of Blue Coat's Web Security Solution Bundles for organizations of 1500 seats and less in size.

The common driving benefit of cloud computing is a desire to reduce capital expenditures. This white paper examines how F5 solutions can improve the performance and security of applications and reduce the capital and operating expenses associated with application deployments -- whether you're building out a private cloud, using or building a public cloud, or taking advantage of platform and SaaS.

WMV recording of the Milestone-F5 webinar that explores the new & advanced features of F5 BIG-IP v10. (12MB file)

This white paper will help you determine if your organization need a Data Loss Prevention solution.

Explains the technology behind Blue Coat's MACH 5 Acceleration

Integration of F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager and Oracle Database Firewall provides exceptional SQL injection protection for F5 customers and richer forensic information for Oracle customers.

By caching content in-region and closer to the user, Blue Coat's CacheFlow appliance drastically reduces bandwidth consumption.

Venafi provides automated, scalable, policy-driven management of digital certificates and cryptographic keys on multiple encryption platforms.

Cyber attackers are now going after encryption key certificates. This article explains the Comodo breach -- and Milestone and Venafi can tell you how to avoid this kind of attack on your system!

This month, we reveiw Milestone's Training practice, 2 network security technologies, and WAN optimization.

This month, Milestone reviews 3 technologies: the TCP ‘split-handshake spoof’ test; secure access for cloud apps; and how we can help you get all your F5 applicances working in concert for maximum benefit.

This month, Milestone reviews 4 network technologies: App & data acceleration; 3-dimensional network security; how to combat spear phishing.

This month, Milestone reviews next-gen firewalls; simplifying DNSSEC deployment; and weaponized malware using digital certificates.

(1) F5 Introduces Midrange VIPRION  (2) ExtraHop "triggers" enable your customization of application performance management  (3) Are you 36% bling to network traffic?  (4) How to cope with IPv4. 

At Griffith University (37,000 students), implementing F5 appliances enabled easier management of netowrk load balancing and solved their application downtime problem. When your network needs fast, secure, optimized application delivery, call Milestone Systems, Inc., the most experienced integrator of F5 on the continent.

Story of how F5 Acopia devices helped a major bank implement tiered storage policies -- and reclaim 40TB of NAS capacity and 200TB of VTL. As one of F5's most experienced integrators, Milestone is ready to help you tier your data and free up current storage space!

How the Carolinas HealthCare System was able to cut costs and reduce IT overhead without sacrificing security -- by implementing SecureAuth tokenless remote authentication. You'll understand why Milestone Systems is proud to be an Authorized Reseller and experienced integrator of the SecureAuth product.

Milestone led a web security project at a major bank.

Hobsons, an education solution provider in the cloud uses F5 to help their customers accomplish more with fewer resources. 

This is the story of how an online book seller uses Coradiant TrueSight technology to get real-time, ongoing visibility into its users experiences and pinpoint problems.

Using F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager, the service providers can now optimize the flow of all IP traffic in real time on a per-subscriber and per-service basis.

Rackspace nows offer customers an easy way to link dedicated managed servers to cloud-based servers -- with F5 Application Delivery Networking devices that helped build a hybrid service called Cloud Connect.

How consolidating and virtualizing servers to a private cloud let IT properly manage them without worry about back-up over the WAN.