F5 extends Silverline services platform with
industry-leading WAF capabilities to protect web applications,
speed application deployments, and reduce application security
costs
F5 Networks (NASDAQ:FFIV) today announced a new cloud-delivered
managed service to defend against web application attacks and
ensure compliance across dynamic cloud and data center
environments. The Silverline™ Web Application Firewall service
offering provides quick web application firewall (WAF)
implementation and unified, scalable policy enforcement
capabilities. The service also includes 24x7 support from highly
specialized F5 security experts with the company’s Security
Operations Center (SOC) resources.
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:
- Increased Speed and Effectiveness
for Reliable WAF Deployments
The new WAF offering protects applications by capitalizing on
F5’s leading security capabilities, demonstrated in independent
performance testing from NSS Labs. F5 is able to leverage its
proven security efficacy to protect against advanced layer 7
attacks (such as those based on geolocation, DDoS, SQL injection,
zero-day threats, AJAX applications, JSON payloads, OWASP Top Ten,
and others) in a convenient, cloud-based service. In addition, F5’s
WAF solutions offer automated, self-learning capabilities in a
highly customizable framework that takes advantage of programmable
iRules® and iApps® technologies to rapidly respond and adapt to
evolving threats.
- Streamlined Operations for Reduced
Costs
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.
- Consolidated Security Functions for
Added Peace of Mind
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, ZK Research
“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.”Mark Vondemkamp, VP
of Security and Silverline Technologies, F5 Networks
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
RSA Conference in San Francisco. Visit F5 at booth #1515.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
- F5 Silverline WAF Datasheet
- Delivering Web Application Security in
the Cloud as a Service – DevCentral Blog Post
- Generational Whitehat Deficit Will
Drive Silverline WAFaaS – DevCentral Blog Post
- F5 Security Operations Center (SOC)
Details
ABOUT F5
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) provides solutions for an application world.
F5 helps organizations seamlessly scale cloud, data center,
telecommunications, and software defined networking (SDN)
deployments to successfully deliver applications and services 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 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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