F5 Web Application Firewall Achieves “Recommended” Status from NSS
October 13 2014 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Independent testing firm NSS Labs lists F5’s
BIG-IP Application Security Manager as recommended based on
performance, reliability, and attack prevention
F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) announced today that it has been
identified as one of the industry’s top Web Application Firewall
(WAF) vendors in recent benchmarking reports from NSS Labs.
Specifically, F5’s BIG-IP® Application Security Manager™ (ASM™) was
evaluated alongside other vendors’ offerings, earning “Recommended”
status for its performance across a number of product and
comparative analysis tests.
Key findings and lab results revealed that F5’s BIG-IP ASM
10200:
- Proved effective against all evasion
techniques tested
- Passed all stability and reliability
tests
- Blocked 99.21% of WAF attacks
- Rated at 36,130 connections per second
(CPS)
“Enterprises increasingly rely on web applications to deliver
mission-critical services to customers,” said Vikram Phatak, CEO at
NSS Labs. “Web Application Firewalls are what keep those
applications safe. Being recommended by NSS is not easy. F5’s
BIG-IP ASM 10200 earned its ‘Recommended’ status by demonstrating
extremely high protection coupled with low false positive rates,
excellent performance, and overall value.”
NSS evaluated vendor solutions based on several security,
performance, and total cost of ownership (TCO) criteria. An NSS
Labs “Recommended” rating indicates that a product demonstrates
outstanding performance and deserves serious consideration from
customers. This rating is reserved for only the top performing
products, regardless of vendor market share, size, or industry
presence.
“Analyst recognition like this provides further evidence of the
compelling advantages F5 security solutions offer customers,” said
Mark Vondemkamp, VP, Security at F5. “With application-focused
products like BIG-IP ASM and Advanced Firewall Manager™, we believe
we can offer comprehensive scale/performance, IP intelligence, and
multiprotocol security capabilities that other vendors can’t
match.”
F5’s BIG-IP ASM was subjected to thorough testing at the NSS
facility in Austin, Texas, based on the Web Application Firewall
Methodology v6.2 available at www.nsslabs.com. The tests were
conducted free of charge, and NSS did not receive any compensation
in return for F5’s participation.
Additional Resources
- NSS Web Application Firewall Product
Analysis for BIG-IP ASM
- Added Perspective on Today’s WAF
Announcement – F5 DevCentral Blog Post
- F5 Security Solutions
- Diversifying into WAFs – 451
Security
Availability
BIG-IP Application Security Manager is available now, as are
additional solutions within F5’s security product portfolio. Please
contact a local F5 sales office for additional product availability
information pertaining to specific countries.
About F5
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) provides solutions for an application world.
F5 helps organizations seamlessly scale cloud, data center, and
software defined networking (SDN) deployments to successfully
deliver applications to anyone, anywhere, at any time. F5 solutions
broaden the reach of IT through an open, extensible framework and a
rich partner ecosystem of leading technology and data center
orchestration vendors. This approach lets customers pursue the
infrastructure model that best fits their needs over time. The
world’s largest businesses, service providers, government entities,
and consumer brands rely on F5 to stay ahead of cloud, security,
and mobility trends. For more information, go to f5.com.
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technologies. All other product and company names herein may be
trademarks of their respective owners.
F5, BIG-IP, Application Security Manager, ASM, Advanced Firewall
Manager, and DevCentral are trademarks or service marks of F5
Networks, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries.
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