F5 WAF for NGINX

Platform Agnostic Security for Modern Apps and APIs

Secure, automate, and scale modern apps and APIs with a platform-agnostic WAF

Defend your applications and APIs with a software security solution that seamlessly integrates into DevOps environments as a lightweight web application firewall (WAF), layer 7 denial-of-service (DoS) protection, bot protection, API security, and threat intelligence services. F5 WAF for NGINX and F5 DoS for NGINX deliver consistent protection across distributed architectures and hybrid environments.

Secure App Development for DevOps: Release apps faster with security automation that integrates seamlessly into the application development process.
No Touch Policy Configuration: Use machine learning to reduce operating costs and adaptive learning for no-touch policy configuration.
Simplify Management: Gain centralized visibility with easy security policy management for total control of your WAF fleet.

Defend against attacks

Leverage a single, powerful, low-latency security solution across clouds and distributed architectures. Scale your app security in Kubernetes clusters and the cloud while significantly reducing compute costs.

Secure APIs: Support for gRPC, GraphQL, REST, OWASP Top 10 APIs.
Prevent App-Layer Attacks: Get superior attack detection by going beyond tracking client traffic patterns, with combined service health checks.
Multi-Layer Defense: Mitigate attacks faster with a multi-layered defense strategy leveraging eBPF technology and managed by app teams.

Protect digital assets and systems

Keep pace with evolving threats and attack techniques to defend your organization from a wide range of security risks and vulnerabilities.

Stop Targeted Attack Campaigns: Mitigate against active cyberattack campaigns.
Prevent Automated Attacks and Bots: Comprehensive protection against automated attacks and bots.
Defend Against Known and Unknown Threats: Surpass basic OWASP Top 10 protection with over 7,500 advanced signatures.

Product Overview

F5 WAF for NGINX

F5 DoS for NGINX

Enforce, automate, and scale your app and API security across distributed architectures and hybrid environments

Protecting your applications and APIs from attacks is easy using F5 WAF for NGINX, an advanced, lightweight, and high-performance web application firewall (WAF) for modern apps and APIs in DevOps environments. F5 WAF for NGINX is part of the NGINX One premium package and runs natively on F5 NGINX Plus and F5 NGINX Ingress Controller. It is platform-agnostic and supports deployment options ranging from edge load balancers to individual pods in Kubernetes clusters.

Core Capabilities

High-performance, automated, and lightweight WAF and DoS protection across distributed architectures and environments with F5 WAF for NGINX and F5 DoS for NGINX.

Platform agnostic

App-centric security designed to protect and provide security controls for the application.

Extensible API security

Deploys tools to secure REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and APIs.

Security as code

Declarative API-based deployment and configuration enables delivering security as “code.”

DoS mitigation

Behavioral analytics and machine learning provide accurate L7 DoS detection and mitigation.

Proactive bot defense

Protects apps from automated attacks by bots and other malicious automated tools.

Defense for the OWASP Top 10

Defends critical apps from today’s biggest security concerns, including those listed in the OWASP Top 10.

Detect and mitigate cyberattacks

Correlate singular attack incidents as part of extensible and sophisticated attacks with threat intelligence and SOC team expertise.

Scalable protection

Integrate WAF and DoS security with NGINX data and management planes across multicloud environments.

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Introducing F5 WAF for NGINX and F5 DoS for NGINX

F5 WAF for NGINX and F5 DoS for NGINX are modern app security solutions that work seamlessly in DevOps environments to help deliver apps from code to customer.

Next Steps

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