F5 NGINX App Protect blog posts(27)
Securing Open Finance in 2025: Essential Insights for Financial Institutions
To excel in 2025, financial institutions must adopt proactive and airtight security strategies that address the unique challenges of open finance.
By Chad Davis
Augmenting the Power of F5 NGINXaaS for Azure with One-Click WAF Protection
F5 NGINXaaS for Azure offers a unified ADCaaS solution—and with the addition of F5 NGINX App Protect, it now provides customers protection from advanced threats.
By Sundar Tiwari, Navpreet Gill
Deliver and Secure Cloud-native Apps with F5 NGINX as a Service for Azure and NGINX App Protect
NGINXaaS for Azure provides the power of NGINX Plus while eliminating the complexity of installing, licensing, upgrading, and patching your NGINX instances.
By Brian Ehlert
F5 NGINX One: A SaaS Solution for Modern Application Management and Delivery
NGINX One will soon be available “as-a-service,” with a single license and a unified management console for enterprise-wide security, availability, observability, and scalability—with a friendly pay-a...
By Shawn WormkeProtecting Your Atlassian Confluence Deployment from CVE-2023-22515 and More
F5's sophisticated solutions offer comprehensive and consistent security to protect your Confluence instance from unauthorized user additions and a host of other potential threats.
By Bill ChurchMulti-Cloud API Security with NGINX and F5 Distributed Cloud WAAP
Navigate the complexity of distributed environments and securely deliver APIs at scale with this three-tier approach to hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.
By Andrew StiefelThe Mission-Critical Patient-Care Use Case That Became a Kubernetes Odyssey
A healthcare tech company migrated to Kubernetes, reduced downtime, and improved visibility with Azure Kubernetes Service and NGINX.
By Jenn GileSecure Your GraphQL and gRPC Bidirectional Streaming APIs with F5 NGINX App Protect WAF
Learn how to secure your GraphQL and gRPC bidirectional streaming APIs with F5 NGINX App Protect WAF and discover best practices for protecting your APIs from common vulnerabilities and attacks.
By Thelen BlumAccelerating DDoS Mitigation with eBPF in F5 NGINX App Protect DoS
NGINX App Protect DoS accelerates defense against Layer 7 DDoS attacks by leveraging eBPF with XDT to enforce rules in kernel space, effectively blocking attacks at Layer 4.
By Robert HaynesTutorial: High Availability for API Gateways in Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Environments
We show step-by-step how to use API Connectivity Manager to deploy NGINX Plus API gateways for high availability of services in multiple cloud environments.
By Akash AnanthanarayananShifting Security Left with F5 NGINX App Protect on Amazon EKS
With F5 NGINX App Protect and NGINX Ingress Controller, you can shift security left in Amazon EKS by deploying security as code at every stage of your software development lifecycle.
By Fabrizio Fiorucci, Thelen BlumArchitecting Zero Trust Security for Kubernetes Apps with NGINX
Protect your users, distributed applications, microservices, and APIs at scale and end-to-end across any environment – on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud.
By Ilya KrutovAutomate Security with F5 NGINX App Protect and F5 NGINX Plus to Reduce the Cost of Breaches
Lower data breach costs by 80% by adding automation and AI into your security solution with F5 NGINX App Protect and F5 NGINX Plus for DoS protection, WAF, and authentication and authorization.
By Thelen Blum, Matthieu DierickSecure Your Kubernetes Clusters with New Machine Learning in NGINX App Protect WAF
Thanks to machine learning, NGINX App Protect WAF instances can share attack trends and data for continuous tuning of your security posture in near real time.
By Thelen Blum, Yaniv SazmanSecure Your gRPC Apps Against Severe DoS Attacks with NGINX App Protect DoS
gRPC provides the speed and flexibility developers need to design and deploy modern applications, but its open nature makes it highly vulnerable to Layer 7 DoS attacks. NGINX App Protect DoS protects ...
By Yaniv Sazman, Thelen BlumSix Ways to Secure Kubernetes Using Traffic Management Tools
Explore six use cases where Kubernetes traffic‑management tools -- including F5 NGINX App Protect, Ingress Controller, and Service Mesh -- solve security problems. Help your SecOps teams collaborate w...
By Jenn GileMitigating the log4j Vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) with NGINX
NGINX can help you protect your apps against the Log4Shell vulnerability in Apache log4j (CVE-2021-44228), with NGINX App Protect, NGINX ModSecurity WAF, or a script using the NGINX JavaScript Module.
By Timo StarkBringing F5 and NGINX WAF Policies into Controller App Security
With NGINX Controller App Security for version 3.20 of the Application Delivery Module, you can now import your custom F5 Advanced WAF and NGINX App Protect WAF policies and distribute them across all...
By Daphne WonProtecting Your Apps from Layer 7 DoS Attacks with NGINX App Protect Denial of Service
Modern DoS attacks against application logic at Layer 7 are hidden in encrypted channels, making them hard to detect. NGINX App Protect Denial of Service measures client behavior and server stress to ...
How NGINX App Protect Denial of Service Adapts to the Evolving Attack Landscape
We explain how NGINX App Protect Denial of Service (DoS) adapts its mitigation methods in real time to protect against Layer 7 DoS attacks. By creating a model of normal user behavior and server healt...
By Vadim KrishtalNGINX App Protect Denial of Service Blocks Application-Level DoS Attacks
NGINX App Protect Denial of Service (DoS) protects your modern applications against sophisticated application-level (Layer 7) DoS attacks, including GET and POST flooding, Slowloris, Slow read, slow P...
By Yaniv SazmanEnhanced TCP/UDP Load Balancing and WAF Configuration with NGINX Ingress Controller
NGINX Ingress Controller now offers enhanced TCP/UDP load balancing with support for snippets, health checks, and multiple TransportServer resources. Release 1.11.0 also introduces a WAF policy for ea...
By Amir RawdatNGINX Steps Up to F5 Agility 2021 with App-Driven Events
F5 Agility 2021 takes the virtual stage on April 20–22 this year, and the NGINX team will be there in full force. Don't miss our sessions and demos on production-grade Kubernetes, real-time API manage...
By Scott De BuitléirNGINX App Protect Brings Security to the API Ecosystem
A “security as code” approach centered around NGINX App Protect is key to protecting your APIs. Integrate non‑disruptive security controls into your automation and CI/CD processes so that app security...
By Scott LasterMitigating Security Vulnerabilities Quickly and Easily with NGINX Plus
An often-overlooked benefit of NGINX Plus is how it makes protecting yourself against security threats quick and easy. We proactively inform NGINX Plus subscribers of security vulnerabilities and patc...
By Laurent PétroqueSecuring gRPC APIs with NGINX App Protect
NGINX App Protect secures gRPC APIs by detecting malicious data in message headers and payloads, nested and complex data structures included. Define security policies in gRPC IDL files, and NGINX App ...
By Yaniv SazmanAnnouncing the NGINX Core Collection for Ansible
Announcing the NGINX Core collection on Ansible, with three roles to help you automate installation and configuration of NGINX Open Source, NGINX Plus, and NGINX App Protect. The collection is availab...
By Alessandro Fael Garcia