Why a WAF (Web Application Firewall) is important in principle:
Despite all efforts to ensure secure application and patch management processes, half of all applications remain vulnerable around the clock. And 50% of all attacks are carried out via web servers.
Web Application Firewalls (WAF) protect your applications from data breaches by stopping common attack vectors such as Cross Site Scripting (XSS) and SQL Injection (SQLI). While web gateways and URL filters protect users and clients, WAFs protect web servers.
What distinguishes F5 as a WAF provider?
The F5 Advanced WAF is a new generation of application protection: thanks to behaviour-based analyses with machine learning, among other things, F5 WAF solutions provide automated web application protection without having to wait for time-consuming app patching.
WAF solutions from F5 are also characterised by particularly granular setting options and the choice between high-performance hardware or cloud-native SaaS solutions.
F5 is one of the few WAF providers to offer genuine end-to-end protection for applications (server and endpoint), including zero-day protection for mobile apps and remote web browsers.
WAF advantages with F5
- Compliance with PCI-DSS 4.01 for iOS & Android as well as client-side Mac & Windows.
- Umfänglicher Schutz gegen die 10 kritischsten Sicherheitsrisiken für Webanwendungen.
- Cloud & on-prem; BGP support for upstream block communication.
- For business-critical web applications.
- Plus extensive policy options (cloud & on-premise).
- In-band and out-of-band detection. Code scanning and API tests. CI/CD integration incl. documentation.
- Best identification & blocking of malicious automated (bot) traffic.
- Secure GraphQL, REST/JSON, XML and GWT APIs.
WAF incl. Mobile App & Browser Security.
OWASP Top 10
DDoS protection layer 2 - 7
Automated vulnerability tests
Individually customisable signatures
API detection and test ('Shift left') protection.
Protection against bot attacks
API protocol security
WAF as hardware, software or cloud-native.
Nomios Germany is your experienced F5 partner. Our certified employees in pre-sales and sales know exactly what protection your business-critical applications need and will advise you based on your objectives.
Recommended by Nomios Germany:
In addition to the hardware-based BIG-IP Advanced WAF, there are two other options from the F5 WAF portfolio to choose from:
F5 WAF as part of the comprehensive "Distributed Cloud" SaaS suite.
- F5 Distributed Cloud starts as a quarter of the hardware-based F5 solution: The F5 Distributed Cloud WAF is supplemented here by globally distributed load balancing. The basic package of the solution suite includes all the necessary tools and functions for securing applications, web apps and API protection (WAAP).
F5 as software-based WAF "BIG-IP Virtual Edition"
- The Virtual Edition of the BIG-IP WAF is compatible with the virtual infrastructure managers of all common hyperscalers (e.g. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or Oracle Cloud) as well as the widespread on-prem hypervisors (e.g. KVM, Citrix or VMWare). The latter regardless of whether it is located locally on site or in a colocation facility.
Live demo for engineers with Nomios Germany.
In the one-hour remote session for technical decision-makers, we will be presenting within our live environment:
- The powerful standard settings and feature overview.
- Running multiple instances on the F5 Advanced WAF: in conjunction with F5 ScaleN and F5 Virtual Clustered MultiprocessingTM (vCMP)
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