F5 extends Silverline services platform with industry-leading WAF capabilities to protect web applications, speed application deployments, and reduce application security costs
As the latest addition to F5’s Silverline cloud-based application services platform, the new WAF offering is built on the award-winning capabilities of the company’s BIG-IP® Application Security Manager™ product. F5 seamlessly provides leading WAF services in both on-premises and subscription-based cloud offerings. The company’s versatile, easy to deploy WAF solutions let organizations confidently incorporate cloud resources while protecting apps and data from increasingly sophisticated security attacks, risks, and vulnerabilities.
DETAILS
Historically, enforcing web application security and compliance policies across a variety of traditional and cloud environments has meant greater complexity, security gaps, and higher costs. As a result, a number of organizations choose to offload WAF administration and policy management, mitigating attacks that might otherwise lead to application downtime, revenue losses, and a damaged brand. Along with on-premises application protection, F5 now enables WAF functionality through an “as a Service” model to make it easy for organizations to quickly bolster their defenses. Advantages of the new Silverline WAF service include:
The new WAF offering protects applications by capitalizing on F5’s
leading security capabilities, demonstrated in independent
performance testing from
Silverline WAF decreases operational expenses by outsourcing WAF policy management and compliance functions to F5’s highly specialized SOC resources. F5’s SOC experts are available 24x7 to build, configure, and fine-tune security policies. This approach helps eliminate false positives while protecting applications and data from known and emerging threats. In addition, F5’s proactive monitoring incorporates external intelligence to secure apps against IP threats. The service also provides access reports through a customer portal, giving organizations additional data to reference in making IT security decisions. F5’s service frees in-house personnel and budget for other projects by removing operational burdens without sacrificing overall application security.
With its integrated Silverline offerings, F5 provides a growing number of hybrid, on-premises, and cloud-delivered application security solutions, including focused solutions around WAF, DDoS Protection, IP Intelligence, and Secure Web Gateway Services. Looking forward, F5 will offer additional services from its BIG-IP product portfolio through the Silverline platform, giving customers freedom and flexibility in how they combine owned, hosted, and managed IT resources. In the context of broader infrastructures, customers will also be able to centralize policy control and orchestration capabilities through APIs and future integrations with F5 management solutions.
SUPPORTING QUOTES
“Cloud architectures, mobile devices, and SaaS applications have
untethered the traditional IT network, increasing the complexity of
application security. F5’s Silverline platform gives their customers new
ways to deploy cloud-delivered and hybrid services to realize
performance gains and efficiencies. With respect to WAF and related
security functions, in-house experts can be challenging to hire and
expensive to keep. Accordingly, I think we’ll see more organizations
pursue managed cloud services like those being offered by F5.”
Zeus
Kerravala, Principal Analyst,
“With security needs outpacing the number of qualified WAF experts in
the industry, many organizations find themselves under-protected.
Silverline solutions expand F5’s fabric-based Synthesis
framework to include cloud-delivered services—giving customers the
benefit of F5 experts proactively looking after WAF functionality. This
approach effectively makes F5 the application security IT engineer for
the customer, providing internal personnel the opportunity to focus on
other priorities.”
AVAILABILITY
The F5 Silverline WAF offering is available now. Please contact a local F5 sales office for additional product and service availability information pertaining to specific countries.
Learn more about F5’s security-focused offerings at next week’s
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