Digital Operational Resilience

Service availability, cyber resilience, and incident recovery for always-on financial services across hybrid multicloud

Operational resilience for financial services

Digital sovereignty requirements and regulations such as DORA, NYDFS 500, and APRA CPS 230 have raised the bar for operational resilience, requiring financial institutions to continuously demonstrate service availability, cyber resilience, and rapid incident recovery. F5’s Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) delivers defense-in-depth security across hybrid and multicloud workloads, supports digital sovereignty requirements, and reduces concentration risk.

Minimized revenue impact from downtime

Keep payments, core banking, and digital channels available during cloud outages and infrastructure failures with active-active architectures, intelligent traffic steering, and automated failover across datacenters, regions, and clouds

Reduced concentration risk

F5 ADSP enables hybrid and multicloud architectures that eliminate single-provider dependency, keeping critical banking and financial services infrastructure available when any one provider fails

Resilient security

AI powered security controls that adapt to evolving cyber-threat, unified visibility and logging reduce mean time to recover and support incident reporting requirements.

Regulatory compliance

Regulations such as DORA, NYDFS 500, and APRA CPS 230 require financial institutions to provide evidence of operational resilience. F5 ADSP provides the control plane and audit trail that simplifies DORA compliance and regulatory reporting.

Benefits

F5 ADSP delivers digital operational resilience

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Keep critical financial services available and secure

F5 ADSP delivers and secures critical financial services applications across on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud, eliminating concentration risk and enabling continuous resilience.
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How F5 Helps

Service availability and recovery

High availability for critical financial services

Active-active architectures with intelligent traffic steering and automated failover across hybrid multicloud environments keep payments, core banking, and digital channels available during disruptions.

Global server load balancing

Ensure financial services remain reachable during regional outages

Intelligent traffic management

Optimize traffic distribution to maintain availability of critical financial services applications

Hybrid multicloud networking

Securely connect applications and services across multiple clouds, on-premises, and edge sites

Threat protection and prevention

Stop threats without compromising service availability

Volumetric attacks, application vulnerabilities, and API abuse threaten operational resilience. Protect and prevent threats to financial services infrastructure with layered security controls and post-quantum cryptography readiness.

DDoS protection

Defend against volumetric attacks before they impact financial services availability

WAF

Protect financial services applications and APIs from OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities and layer 7 exploits

API Security

Centralize encrypted traffic management with quantum-safe encryption across financial services infrastructure

SSL / TLS orchestration

Centralize encrypted traffic management with quantum-safe encryption across financial services infrastructure

Bot defense

Stop automated attacks targeting banking applications, login portals, and customer-facing services

AI Guardrails

Enforce runtime protection for AI models and agents against OWASP Top 10 LLM vulnerabilities

Resilience testing

Validate resilience across applications, AI models, and failover scenarios.

Regulations require financial institutions to continuously test critical infrastructure and processes to demonstrate resilience and recovery. F5 enables continuous scanning, adversarial AI testing, and automated failover validation across hybrid multicloud environments.

Web app scanning

Continuously scan FinServ applications and APIs for vulnerabilities

AI red teaming

Simulate and test adversarial attacks including prompt injection and model manipulation

Automation

Automate failover and test resilience validation across hybrid multicloud environments

Synthetic Monitoring

Monitor response time by region in real time identifying outages & availability issues before customers experience them

Monitoring and incident response

Detect, respond, and recover faster across hybrid multicloud

Siloed monitoring and manual processes slow incident detection, creating regulatory exposure. Unified visibility, AI-driven remediation, and comprehensive logging reduce mean time to recover and support incident reporting obligations.

Unified Management and Automation

Manage policies across hybrid and multicloud environments from a single control plane.

F5 Insight for ADSP

Real-time telemetry and observability across financial services applications and infrastructure.

AI remediate

Automatically convert red team adversarial findings into validated AI runtime guardrails.

Ecosystem integrations


F5 works with many of the world's leading technology companies to improve manageability, strengthen security, and ensure the operational resilience of critical financial services infrastructure.

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