Network security solutions
Reduce risk and complexity with comprehensive protection for apps and APIs anywhere.
Reduce risk and complexity with comprehensive protection for apps and APIs anywhere.
The F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) delivers high-performance network security in a full-proxy architecture, combining firewalling, DDoS protection, DNS security, and intrusion prevention (IPS) with quantum-resilience. Unifying network security protects not just the network, but applications and sensitive data—defending against advanced attacks and costly breaches.
Enforce strong encryption and real-time controls to protect sensitive data in transit across networks and applications.
Reduce risk and prevent unauthorized access with identity- and context-aware zero trust access and least-privilege controls.
Ensure network and application availability, security, and scale with resilient, high-performance traffic protection.
Mitigate multi-vector attacks that disrupt application services, protecting uptime and performance across distributed environments.
Modern networks and data centers face constant threats—from volumetric DDoS attacks to sophisticated intrusion attempts. High-performance protection is essential to keep applications online and data secure.
By combining advanced intrusion prevention (IPS), network security policies, and real-time DDoS mitigation, organizations can detect, block, and absorb attacks before they disrupt servers or services—ensuring resilient, secure, always-available digital operations.
Protects your networks against incoming threats, including massive and complex DDoS attacks.
As threats grow more sophisticated, flat networks increase risk. Network segmentation and microsegmentation protect applications and sensitive data by shrinking the attack surface and limiting lateral movement.
By isolating workloads and enforcing least-privilege and zero trust, organizations can restrict traffic to only authorized users and services.
The result is stronger security, contained breaches, and better protection for critical applications and data.
Protects your networks against incoming threats, including massive and complex DDoS attacks.
Enables secure, zero trust access for all apps—legacy and modern, with least privilege access aiding in network segmentation.
Protecting existing network, application, and data infrastructure is critical as threats evolve. Organizations must defend against unauthorized access and advanced attacks while ensuring their current technology and security stacks operate at peak performance.
By optimizing and strengthening what’s already in place—through improved visibility, policy enforcement, and performance tuning—teams can reduce risk, maximize efficiency, and extend the value of their infrastructure investments.
Maximizes infrastructure and security investments with dynamic, policy-based decryption, encryption, and traffic steering.
Protects your networks against incoming threats, including massive and complex DDoS attacks.
Modern security requires more than perimeter defenses. Organizations must ensure network, application, and data access is limited to authorized users through identity- and context-aware policies.
By enforcing zero trust access controls and strong encryption for data in transit and at rest, teams can prevent unauthorized access, reduce breach risk, and protect sensitive information from theft, misuse, and advanced cyberattacks.
Maximizes infrastructure and security investments with dynamic, policy-based decryption, encryption, and traffic steering.
Protects your networks against incoming threats, including massive and complex DDoS attacks.
SOLUTION OVERVIEW
SOLUTION OVERVIEW
SOLUTION OVERVIEW
Network segmentation reduces blast radius by isolating applications, workloads, and data into controlled zones with explicit trust boundaries. Instead of a flat network where an external breach enables lateral movement, segmentation enforces least-privilege access between tiers, limits east-west traffic, and constrains attacker mobility. When combined with full-proxy inspection and identity-aware policy, segmentation allows threats to be detected, contained, and blocked before they can escalate into systemic compromise.
A traditional perimeter assumes a fixed boundary—typically firewalls protecting a centralized data center. The network edge reflects modern reality: applications, APIs, and users distributed across clouds, regions, and devices. Security moves closer to traffic ingress points, where inspection, policy enforcement, and access decisions happen before traffic reaches applications. This shift enables earlier threat mitigation, consistent controls across environments, and better protection for hybrid and multicloud architectures.
Network security mitigates DDoS by detecting abnormal traffic patterns early, absorbing volumetric floods, and enforcing rate limits before resources are exhausted. High-performance network controls can distinguish legitimate traffic from attack traffic at scale, while full-proxy architectures prevent direct exposure of applications. By combining inline mitigation with centralized visibility, organizations can maintain availability during large-scale attacks without sacrificing performance for legitimate users.
Modern network security integrates through consistent policy enforcement across on-prem, cloud, and edge environments. Rather than relying on cloud-specific controls alone, centralized platforms apply uniform segmentation, inspection, and access policies regardless of where workloads run. This approach reduces configuration drift, improves visibility across environments, and enables architects to design security once and enforce it everywhere—critical for hybrid and multicloud operational models.
Network security supports compliance by enforcing access controls, segmentation, encryption, and continuous monitoring aligned to regulatory requirements. Granular policy enforcement helps limit data exposure, while logging and traffic visibility support audit and incident response needs. By reducing attack surface and preventing unauthorized access paths, network security lowers operational risk and helps organizations demonstrate control over sensitive data, availability, and access across regulated environments.
