F5 Accused of Copying California Company’s Cybersecurity Tech

Closely held SunStone Information Defense claims that F5 Networks has incorporated its patented technology into cybersecurity and anti-fraud products that it sells to Capital One.

• F5 products, including ones it got as part of the $1 billion purchase of cybersecurity firm Shape, are a “nearly identical security product” to that covered by SunStone patents, according to the complaint filed Friday in federal court in Norfolk, Virginia
• The inventions are related to fighting “virus polymorphism,” where hackers take control of multiple computers and turn them into zombies that can spread viruses and commit financial fraud, and advanced persistent threat viruses, which ...