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BIG-IP^® Application Security Manager^™

Get the fastest, most comprehensive, and scalable web application firewall

Some of the most serious security threats come from attacks that target vulnerabilities in enterprise applications. Conventional firewalls and intrusion-detection/prevention systems don't detect these attacks, which are often difficult and costly to prevent. Security regulations, including PCI DSS, require organizations to use application firewalls to protect against these attacks.

BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM) delivers comprehensive protection for web applications while maintaining low total cost of ownership. BIG-IP ASM can help your organization quickly pass a security audit without requiring changes to the application code. It employs an auto-adaptive approach to application delivery security, where the security policy is automatically updated based on observed traffic patterns. This simplified approach to configuration makes implementation and maintenance easier, helping you reduce your overall operational costs.

Industry-leading Performance

BIG-IP Application Security Manager is the fastest application delivery security product on the market and includes an integrated XML firewall. It combines application optimization and acceleration technologies such as RAM cache, compression, SSL offload, TCP optimization, and other performance advantages of F5's TMOS architecture. This offloads the servers, improves the user experience, and consolidates the footprint in the datacenter for easier management. BIG-IP ASM can also secure FTP and SMTP traffic and provide authentication.

Easy Implementation and Maintenance

With BIG-IP Application Security Manager, application delivery security is easy to implement and manage. It includes specific, built-in validated application security policies for common applications as well as an automatic policy-building engine that can quickly adapt to application updates. BIG-IP ASM helps you rapidly and virtually patch web application vulnerabilities without involving your application development team. This helps you maintain compliance with government and industry regulations such as PCI and HIPAA.

Certified and Award-winning Application Delivery Security

BIG-IP Application Security Manager has been rigorously tested and has received ICSA Web Application Firewall Certification. In just two years, BIG-IP ASM has been deployed in more than 50 of the Fortune 1000 companies and recently received SC Magazine's 2009 Reader Trust Award for Best Web Application Security solution.

BIG-IP Application Security Manager is available as a standalone appliance and as a product module on the BIG-IP system.

BIG-IP Product Modules:

Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
Global Traffic Manager (GTM)
Link Controller (LC)
Application Security Manager (ASM)
Secure Access Manager (SAM) standalone version
WebAccelerator (WA)

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