The complexities of a hybrid, multicloud landscape
In today’s dynamic digital landscape, applications power interactions with customers, drive internal operations, and fuel innovation. But as organizations and apps scale across hybrid multicloud environments, complexity increases. Distributed platforms, API sprawl, app-to-app connections, and advanced AI-driven security threats present evolving challenges to infrastructure health.
F5's Application Delivery and Security Platform is designed to address the challenges of the hybrid multicloud world by providing a comprehensive suite of services that can be deployed with maximum flexibility, ensuring applications are delivered efficiently and securely.
Explore the top app delivery and security challenges facing organizations below.
Understanding today’s top app delivery and security challenges
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Tiered architectures enhance application delivery and security
Distributed apps and APIs running across diverse environments present unprecedented challenges for many organizations. The evolving complexity of modern networks increases the need for improved visibility, control and auditability to ensure consistent app delivery and robust security. As attack vectors grow, organizations need a unified platform that simplifies operations, enhances resilience, and secures distributed environments from emerging threats.
The visual below outlines how a tiered application services architecture can help deliver high-performing digital experiences in today’s hybrid multicloud environments.
Global services
Implement enterprise-wide security policies and traffic management controls to ensure a guaranteed minimum protection standard across distributed environments, as well as optimized traffic routing to maximize application uptime and availability.
Site services
Customize services based on regional performance requirements, threat intelligence and compliance mandates such as GDPR. Deploy region-specific defenses while enabling segmentation to shrink the blast-radius in the case of a site-breach.
Platform services
Manage security and traffic policies for shared infrastructure like Kubernetes or AWS, applying protections and controls for groups of workloads, such as API security for microservices environments.
Application services
Adjust controls based on the risk profiles and availability requirements needs of individual applications, enforcing stricter security policies for mission-critical workloads while optimizing performance through features like session persistence, content-based routing, rate-limiting, and other tailored capabilities.
Management & operations
Centralize operations across distributed environments, streamlining configuration management, enhancing observability, and automating workflows through a unified point of control.
Identify and mitigate vulnerabilities in your hybrid multicloud architecture
Use the interactive tool below to discover threats and protect your application ecosystem. This tool provides actionable insights that help you mitigate threats with F5 solutions to ensure your apps are fast, secure, and available.
To get started, use the drop-down menus to select the site and platform types deployed in your organization’s architecture.
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