F5

F5 Advanced Web Application Firewall (WAF) protects against the latest wave of attacks using behavioral analytics, proactive bot defense, and application-layer encryption of sensitive data, such as credentials.

FT WAF—with its unmatched scale and performance—is also ideal for cloud and communications service provider deployments. In service provider environments, F5 WAF helps to ensure performance as it protects not only the network itself, but also subscribers, from attacks.

A single F5 platform scales to handle up to 576 million concurrent connections, 640 Gbps of throughput, and 8 million connections per second to mitigate even the largest volumetric attacks. And when combined with hardware redundancy, synchronization, health monitoring, and automatic failover/failback capabilities, this provides greater assurance in availability and reliability.

Only F5’s next-generation, cloud-ready ADC platform provides DevOps-like agility with the scale, security depth, and investment protection needed for both established and emerging apps. As a result, customers can accelerate private clouds and secure critical data at scale while lowering TCO and future-proofing their application infrastructures.

F5’s proactive bot defenses stop automated attacks and leverage a combination of challenge- and behavior-based techniques to identify and filter out bot traffic. By stopping bad bots, users can eliminate many of these opportunistic attacks.

Advanced WAF includes F5 DataSafe to help encrypt data and credentials at the application-layer—without having to update the application. This encrypts the data as it passes through the Advanced WAF solution.

Advanced WAF automatically learns the application behavior, combining the behavioral heuristics of traffic with the server stress to determine DDoS conditions. This process provides the most accurate detection without false positives. Dynamic signatures are then created and deployed on the fly for real-time protection.