F5 Strengthens Protection of the Digital World with F5 Distributed Cloud Services
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) has unveiled its new SaaS platform, F5 Distributed Cloud Services, enhancing its application security portfolio. Launched at the Agility conference, this platform addresses complex application security with unified security and multi-cloud networking capabilities. The inaugural solution, F5 Distributed Cloud WAAP, combines advanced web application firewall, bot mitigation, and DDoS protection into a single offering. With 88% of organizations managing both legacy and modern architectures, this solution simplifies security management across diverse environments.
- Launch of F5 Distributed Cloud Services enhances application security portfolio.
- F5 Distributed Cloud WAAP integrates multiple security capabilities into a single SaaS offering.
- Addresses security needs for organizations managing complex application architectures.
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New SaaS platform expands F5 security portfolio with simplified management and security for all applications in all locations
F5 Distributed Cloud Console (Click for Full-Size Image) (Graphic: Business Wire)
Nearly all organizations today find themselves at the convergence of two significant trends: the evolution of applications as the center of their customers’ digital lives and the escalation of threats against those applications. This presents a tremendous challenge as many companies now manage complex application portfolios comprising older legacy and newer modern technologies and infrastructures. In F5’s upcoming 2022 State of Application Strategy Report, 88 percent of organizations say they operate both legacy and modern application architectures, while 70 percent operate in multiple clouds. This expands the threat surface area as companies are forced to deploy separate, and often inconsistent, security controls across different environments.
Over the past several years, F5 has transformed its business and significantly expanded its software and cloud offerings to deliver a broad portfolio of solutions to help customers address this complexity and risk. Through BIG-IP, NGINX, and now F5 Distributed Cloud Services, F5 offers a range of integrated, machine learning-driven solutions that protect legacy and modern applications and APIs across data center, cloud, and edge locations. The world’s largest organizations, including banks, retailers, service providers, and government agencies, rely on F5 to maintain application availability, protect APIs powering their digital supply chains, address threats like malware and bots, and fight rampant fraud.
“Applications and the digital experiences they power have become a foundation for human connection and achievement, as well as a platform for significant business innovation and market creation,” said
Introducing F5 Distributed Cloud WAAP
F5 Distributed Cloud WAAP simplifies security and automates process, allowing application teams to focus on delivering features and functionality that will enhance their customers’ experience and propel their business forward. The new SaaS-based offering integrates F5’s industry-leading web application firewall, bot mitigation, DDoS, and API protection capabilities into a single, easy-to-deploy solution that enables SecOps and DevOps teams to enforce consistent security policy wherever they need to deploy applications.
The new solution brings together the best of F5 application security technologies, including:
- Application protection from F5 Advanced WAF, which more effectively and efficiently guards against the most prevalent application attacks
- API security from Volterra’s machine learning-based auto-discovery and anomaly detection, which automates the entire process of finding, securing, and monitoring APIs
- Bot defense based on F5 Shape AI technology
- Global distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection
“We selected F5 Distributed Cloud WAAP against alternative SaaS and CDN-based solutions because of the customizability and simplicity of the solution and how it can enable our aggressive move to the cloud,” said
F5 Distributed Cloud WAAP is globally available from F5 now and will launch in the
“Virtual workforces, digital-first selling, service, and customer experience are driving the need for security services to be closer to the users,” said
F5 Distributed Cloud Services Bring a New Approach to App Security and Delivery
The F5 Distributed Cloud Platform provides cloud-native SaaS-based app security and delivery services. These services are centrally managed but can be deployed anywhere the app needs to be to maximize business impact and deliver a superior customer experience. Built on a combination of the platform and services acquired from
- Deploy natively in multi-cloud, data center, and edge environments
- Provide end-to-end visibility and policy control across all apps in a single dashboard
- Provide an integrated global private network in more than 20 major metropolitan areas
There are several additional F5 Distributed Cloud Services currently available to customers. F5 Distributed Cloud Multi-Cloud Transit enables multi-cloud networking (MCN) functionality with secure and high-performance connectivity between clouds and a network firewall. F5 Distributed Cloud Load Balancer and Kubernetes Gateway provides an integrated load balancer with Kubernetes and API gateways to easily deploy modern workloads and microservices across distributed clusters, locations, and cloud providers. The platform also has cloud-native computing capabilities at the edge of the network, known as an app delivery network (ADN), that improve end-user experience by distributing applications to the edge of the F5 Global Network.
In addition, F5 has taken steps to integrate the customer experience across its growing portfolio by simplifying product naming. Many F5, Shape, and
“Today’s applications and business models are adapting faster than ever, and that means app security and infrastructure need to be much more agile and effective,” said
Customers can visit f5.com for further detail on F5 Distributed Cloud Services, and contact F5 Sales for additional product and service availability information.
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“We have been bringing our applications and IT services in-house over the last year and selected F5 as a key partner to help us secure and accelerate them,” said
“Modern applications have evolved rapidly,” said
“As F5 Distributed Cloud WAAP expands the company’s industry-leading security solutions to the network edge, Ping Identity is excited to continue our longstanding partnership and joint commitment to strengthening access and security capabilities for enterprise users,” said
“The successful launch of F5 Distributed Cloud WAAP is yet another impactful milestone for F5 with much-anticipated benefits for our joint customers,” said
“Stellar Cyber is excited to see F5 launch Distributed Cloud WAAP, and we believe that our joint customers will be excited as well,” said Jim O’Hara, Chief Revenue Officer, Stellar Cyber. “Stellar and F5 have worked together closely to help users achieve the goal of operating a single security platform for extended visibility and remediation across hybrid environments—including, now, the increasingly important network edge. Our focus is on enabling IT teams to respond to threats in seconds rather than days or weeks utilizing Open XDR, and F5 Distributed Cloud WAAP only strengthens these capabilities.”
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How to Combat Complexity and Elevate Modern App Security –
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F5 Introduces Comprehensive SaaS-based Security for Web Apps and APIs –
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F5 Distributed Cloud WAAP and Rich Partner Ecosystem Deliver Security and Value –
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F5 Labs 2022 Application Protection Report - F5 Press Kit Materials
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