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. Security regulations, including PCI DSS, require organizations to use application firewalls to protect against these attacks. Automated scanners and bot programs web scrape site data for replication, diluting brand equity. Yet conventional firewalls and intrusion-detection/prevention systems don’t detect all of these threats, which are often difficult and costly to mitigate.

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. PCI compliance reports provide an executive summary of requirements and recommendations for bringing your application environment into compliance. BIG-IP ASM employs unique technology that detects if your domains are being web scraped of valuable information and shields your sites from copy and reuse.

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 fast 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. To keep you up to speed on the latest web threats as they grow in number and complexity, BIG-IP ASM includes an attack expert system that provides on-the-spot knowledge of violations and attacks.

Certified and Award-winning Application Delivery Security

BIG-IP Application Security Manager has been rigorously tested and has received ICSA Web Application Firewall Certification. BIG-IP ASM has been deployed in more than 70 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)
• WebAccelerator (WA)
• Edge Gateway
• WAN Optimization Module (WOM)
• Access Policy Manager (APM)