F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF Description

The Advanced Web Application Firewall (WAF) safeguards your applications using behavioral analytics, proactive defense against bots, and encryption for sensitive data at the application layer. To understand how the Advanced WAF can enhance your security and reduce costs, utilize the ROI Estimator provided by F5 and Forrester. The F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF is equipped with a robust array of security options designed to shield your web applications from various threats. While many WAFs deliver only a fundamental level of protection at the upper layers of the OSI model, the F5 Advanced WAF goes beyond that by incorporating advanced security capabilities such as the Anti Bot Mobile SDK, Credential Stuffing threat feeds, Proactive Bot Defense, and Datasafe, among others. It is essential to defend your applications, APIs, and data from common threats, including zero-day exploits, application-layer DoS attacks, coordinated threat campaigns, application takeovers, and malicious bots, ensuring a comprehensive security strategy. By investing in such advanced protections, you can significantly bolster your security measures and better protect your digital assets against evolving threats.

Pricing

Free Trial:
Yes

Integrations

API:
Yes, F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF has an API

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Company Details

Company:
F5
Year Founded:
1996
Headquarters:
United States
Website:
www.f5.com/products/big-ip-services/advanced-waf

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Product Details

Platforms
Web-Based
Types of Training
Training Docs
Live Training (Online)
Customer Support
Business Hours
Live Rep (24/7)
Online Support

F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF Features and Options

Web Application Firewalls (WAF)

Access Control / Permissions
Alerts / Notifications
Automate and Orchestrate Security
Automated Attack Detection
DDoS Protection
Dashboard
IP Reputation Checking
Managed Rules
OWASP Protection
Reporting / Analytics
Secure App Delivery
Server Cloaking
Virtual Patching
Zero-Day Attack Prevention

F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF User Reviews

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  • Name: Harish Kumar B.
    Job Title: Senior Technical Engineer
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User, Administrator
    Organization Size: 5,000 - 9,999
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    A Comprehensive Solution for Web Application Security

    Date: Nov 21 2024

    Summary: This is essential for enterprises that need comprehensive security for web applications. This tool provides strong protection against the wide range of attacks that will cause your applications. But consider that the smaller organizations have the cost factor to procure it. Also, need to check the complexity before implementing this for an infrastructure.

    Positive: WAF provides comprehensive protection against the top 10 OWASP attacks.
    It adapts to evolving threats with the traffic learning patterns and suggests the best practices.
    It provides security for the HTTP/HTTPS traffic, which helps in identifying and mitigating the attacks that bypass the traditional network firewalls.
    It has built bot-defense mechanisms that detect and block the malicious bots.
    F5 WAF can do SSL offload, which increases the application's performance.

    Negative: The pricing is slightly higher when it comes to procuring the licenses for smaller organizations.
    It takes a lot of time to enforce the application to block, which involves tuning the policies as per the application requirement.
    There will be some delay in providing the security signatures and rules, This delay can expose the application in some instances.

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