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Application Security
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Applications secured. Business protected.
BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM) protects the applications your business relies on with an agile, certified web application firewall and comprehensive, policy-based web application security. Offering threat assessment and mitigation, visibility, and almost limitless flexibility, BIG-IP ASM helps you secure your applications—and your peace of mind.
Ensure strong security for critical applications
BIG-IP ASM integrates with a range of vulnerability scanners—including WhiteHat Sentinel, Cenzic Hailstorm, IBM Rational AppScan, and QualysGuard Web Application Scanning—to give you the most advanced application assessment and threat protection. This combined solution helps you secure all your applications—and save on costly vulnerability repairs.
Gain visibility, analytics, and compliance
Stay on top of security with advanced application and location visibility. BIG-IP ASM provides granular detail about violations and attacks. It correlates multiple violations into incidents and blocks attacks based on geolocation information—keeping your network safe.
- Shield your company from web scrapers—while providing flexibility with a whitelist for approved site scrapers.
- Comply with key regulatory mandates such as PCI DSS.
- Help your organization quickly pass a security audit without requiring changes to the application code.
Get industry-leading scale and performance
As the most scalable application security solution on the market, BIG-IP ASM can protect all your data center applications. It also dynamically boosts performance with application optimization and acceleration technologies such as fast caching, compression, SSL offload, and TCP optimization.
- Secure HTTP, FTP, and SMTP traffic.
- Take advantage of an integrated XML firewall.
- Deploy with BIG-IP Access Policy Manager to enable policy enforcement and access control.
- Integrate security services and implement application security quickly with F5 iApps Templates.
Enjoy flexible implementation and fast fixes
Application security is easy to manage with BIG-IP ASM, which is available as a physical or virtual edition. You can quickly secure common applications with built-in security policies—and keep them secure and available by rapidly and virtually patching web application vulnerabilities.
- Adapt to application updates with the automatic policy-building engine.
- Get on-the-spot knowledge about violations with the intelligent attack expert system.
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