F5 Distributed Cloud WAF

Name: F5 Distributed Cloud WAF
Brand: F5

F5's AI-powered WAF uses risk-based scoring to stop frontier-AI attacks, simply and consistently securing apps across any environment.

Prevent Attacks with F5’s Industry-Leading WAF and the Power of AI

Improve threat protection and reduce false positives with AI-powered risk scoring

Move from configuration-heavy WAF operations to outcome-based detection. AI-driven capabilities complement signature-based and behavioral tracking methods to improve detection and stop attacks before they can happen while reducing false positives and manual tuning time.

Turns insights into action with Agentic Threat Intelligence

Stop drowning in alert fatigue. F5 Agentic Threat Intelligence combines outside-in global threat trends with inside-out WAF telemetry, autonomously correlating active CVE exploits hitting your apps. Instead of chaotic noise, F5 delivers a prioritized, ready-to-action daily briefing with immediate virtual patching recommendations to secure your APIs and applications with total confidence.

Abolish WAF complexity and manual tuning

Built natively into F5’s AI-Powered WAF, F5’s WAF Anomaly Detection is a self-learning engine that continuously analyzes unique traffic over 48 hours to baseline normal behavior. By scoring real-time requests against this baseline, it flags exploits and slashes false positives. Get out-of-the-box, contextual security without manual tuning.

Product Overview

Public clouds

Manage and protect application workloads hosted across clouds, including AWS, Azure, and GCP.

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On-premises

Manage and protect applications at your data center and edge sites.

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F5 global PoPs

Manage and protect application workloads from any of the points of presence (PoPs) on the F5 Global Network.

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Core Capabilities

F5 Distributed Cloud WAF delivers robust behavior-based defenses and signatures, integrated with AI-power and agentic threat protection to stop frontier-AI driven attacks, as well as negative- and zero-days on web applications.

AI-powered risk scoring

Rich, layered analysis enables stronger threat detection with fewer false positives—all without constant manual tuning.

Agentic threat intelligence

Correlates external CVE trends with inside-out WAF data, driving a prioritized daily task briefing with proactive virtual patching to stop active exploits instantly.

Self-learning anomaly detection

Self-learning WAF Anomaly Detection continually analyzes and baselines traffic to stop exploits and cut false positives without manual tuning.

Automatic attack signature tuning

Easily determines if a signature-identified attack is really a threat, helping reduce the number of false positives.

Advanced behavior engine

Monitors and scores client interactions, deciphering intent based on the number of WAF rules hit, forbidden access attempts, login failures, error rates, and more, to help identify an app’s highest priority threats.

Powerful service policy engine

Enables micro segmentation and advanced security at the application layer, utilizing IP reputation and allow/deny lists to block clients with known bad TLS fingerprints, ASNs from suspicious countries, and more.

Robust attack signature engine

Captures Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) plus known vulnerabilities and techniques identified by F5 Labs, including Layer 7 DDoS, threat campaigns, bots, and automated threats.

AI assistant

Simplify delivery and security of distributed apps and APIs using a natural language interface with real-time insights, actionable recommendations, and summary of data reports.

Platform Support

Broad platform and cloud provider support

Distributed Cloud Services can be delivered to apps running on any platform on any public/private cloud. Connect and secure apps running in VMs, containers, bare metal or serverless.

Simplifying DevOps and SecOps

F5’s native Terraform provider, vesctl CLI tool, and public APIs deliver the automation needs of app teams. Support for alerting tools (i.e., Opsgenie and Slack) and SIEM tools (i.e., Splunk and Datadog) simplify life of DevOps and SecOps.

Broad platform and cloud provider support

Distributed Cloud Services can be delivered to apps running on any platform on any public/private cloud. Connect and secure apps running in VMs, containers, bare metal or serverless.