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Web Application Security Solutions
Prevent sophisticated web attacks that no other firewalls can stop
Sensitive data is facing new security threats—just look at all the application cyber attacks in the news. Attacks on your applications, such as the recent multi-layer distributed denial of service attacks, SQL injection vulnerabilities, and JSON payload violations in AJAX widgets, pose increasing risks to your interactive web applications, your data, and your business.
F5 provides a flexible, certified web application firewall and comprehensive, policy-based web application security to address emerging threats at the application level. This combination significantly reduces the risk of damage to intellectual property, data, and web applications. With F5, you get a complete application protection solution on a certified network firewall platform that eliminates the need for multiple appliances. This lowers maintenance and management costs, and increases the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of your applications, network, and processes.
Why do I need web application security?
Business benefits of using F5 for web application security include:
- Superior application security and availability.
F5 technology delivers comprehensive protection from the latest web security threats, including DDoS and SQL injection attacks, JSON payload vulnerabilities, web scraping, and more, to shield the corporate brand.
- Compliance with security regulations.
F5’s industry-leading application attack protection provides fast PCI compliance reporting to help you meet regulations such as PCI DSS.
- Faster and more flexible deployment.
Preconfigured and tested security policies for applications such as Microsoft SharePoint, Oracle PeopleSoft, and SAP NetWeaver make it easy for you to deploy in physical, virtual, and private cloud environments quickly and with less configuration complexity.
- Groundbreaking performance.
F5 offers the fastest application firewall solution on the market, providing up to 10× faster performance than other available solutions.
- Consolidated dynamic services and simplified management.
With the industry's only complete data center firewall, integrated application delivery, and access control solution, F5 provides easy application security management, vulnerability assessment, and device consolidation.
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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 automated policy-building engine that can quickly adapt to application updates. For step-by-step configuration instructions, F5 deployment guides contain comprehensive procedures on configuring F5 devices with leading web applications.
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What F5 offerings do I need for a web application security solution?
F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM) is a flexible and certified web application firewall that provides comprehensive web application security to protect web applications in physical, virtual, and private cloud environments.
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