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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. Attacks within protocol and access methods, such as HTTP and XML, pose increasingly sophisticated risks to your web applications, data, and business.

F5 provides an advanced web application firewall and comprehensive, policy-based web application security to address these 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 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:

  • 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 6.6.
  • Application security and availability.
    F5 technology delivers comprehensive attack protection from the latest web security threats, including Denial-of-Service, SQL injection, web scraping, and more, to shield the corporate brand from data breaches and content dilution.
  • Streamlined deployment and configuration.
    Pre-configured and tested policies for solutions such as Microsoft SharePoint and SAP NetWeaver remove configuration complexity, for faster deployments and application security from day one.
  • Groundbreaking performance.
    F5 offers the fastest application firewall solution on the market, providing up to 9x faster performance than other available solutions.
  • Consolidated dynamic services and simplified management.
    With the industry's only complete, integrated application delivery, acceleration and security solution, F5 provides easy application security management and device consolidation.

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, F5 deployment guides contain comprehensive procedures on configuring F5 devices with leading web applications.

Resources

DevCentral Community

F5 Devcentral, is our community driven site that helps customers and partners maximize the effectiveness of F5 technologies & solutions.

F5 Knowledge Base

The AskF5 Knowledge Base has product manuals, security advisories, and release notes on F5 products.

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.

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Resources

F5 Technology Demo

This animated demo shows the F5 application delivery networking technologies working in different scenarios.

BIG-IP Overview Demo

This in-depth Flash demo gives a video introduction, overview, and next steps for using BIG-IP.

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