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Web Application Security Solutions
Prevent sophisticated web attacks that no other firewalls can stop
As more application traffic moves to the web, sensitive data is facing new security threats--including sophisticated attacks on web applications and data, within protocol and access methods such as HTTP and XML. Web application security is a comprehensive, policy-based method designed to help you take on these emerging threats at the application level, so you can prevent attacks that no other firewalls can address.
F5 solutions provide an advanced web application firewall along with comprehensive web application security. This combination significantly reduces the risk of damage to intellectual property, data, and web applications. With F5, you get a complete solution that eliminates the need for multiple appliances, lowers maintenance and management costs, and increases the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of your applications and processes.
Why do I need web application security?
Business benefits of using F5 for web application security include:
- Dynamic policy generation for any web application.
F5 technology immediately starts building a dynamic application security policy based on live traffic. - Pre-built and certified application policies.
Pre-configured and tested policies for solutions such as Microsoft SharePoint and SAP NetWeaver remove configuration complexity, streamlining deployments and offering application security from day one. - Support for HTTP, HTML, XML, and JS.
Our solutions support all parts of the web application, not just HTML. You get low-level HTTP protocol security, as well as security for XML and dynamic JavaScript content. - Groundbreaking performance.
We offer the fastest application firewall solution on the market, providing up to a 9x performance boost over competing solutions. - Support for regulatory compliance.
F5 solutions can help you comply with regulations such as PCI-DSS 6.6. - Application security and delivery in a single solution.
Our solutions provide the industry's only complete, integrated application delivery and security solution, providing security, availability, and optimization.
Top Case Studies
- Vurv Technology - Streamlines hosting environment and enhances security with BIG-IP LTM 8400 and Application Security Manager
- FNZ - Invests in future prosperity with a solid network foundation from F5
- Blue Cross/Blue Shield - High availability, best practices, security and HIPAA compliance using F5's BIG-IP solutions
Top White Papers
- Vulnerability Assessment Plus Web Application Firewall
- Application Firewalls
- Web application vulnerabilities and avoiding application exposure
- Complying with PCI DSS requirement 6.6
Top News Articles
Latest OnDemand Content
BIG-IP Application Security Manager diagram
How do I implement web application security?
F5's comprehensive security solutions have made web application security easy and manageable. F5 delivers specific, built-in, Validated Application Policies as well as an automatic policy-building engine that can quickly adapt to application updates. For step-by-step configuration instructions, our deployment guides contain comprehensive procedures on configuring F5 devices with leading web applications.
Deployment Guides
Web Application Security on DevCentral
What F5 offerings do I need for a web application security solution?
F5's BIG-IP® Application Security Manager™ (ASM) is an advanced web application firewall providing comprehensive web application security that significantly reduces and mitigates the risk of loss or damage to data, intellectual property, and web applications.
