Simple Review for F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall
A great and simple AWAF onprem solution that is used to secure our Web Application.
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What is F5 Advanced WAF?
F5 Networks offers the Advanced Web Application Firewall (WAF) to provide bot defense, advanced application protection, anti-bot SDK, and other features.
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What is F5 Advanced WAF?
F5 Networks offers the Advanced Web Application Firewall (WAF) to provide bot defense, advanced application protection, anti-bot SDK, and other features.
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What is F5 Advanced WAF?
F5's Advanced WAF is built on F5 technology and goes beyond
reactive security such as static signatures and reputation to
proactively detect and mitigate bots, secure credentials and sensitive
data, and defend against application denial-of-service (DoS). Advanced
WAF redefines application security to address the most prevalent threats
organizations face.
F5 Advanced WAF Features
- Supported: In-Browser Data Encryption - Encrypts data at the app layer to protect against data-extracting malware and man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks.
- Supported: Behavioral DoS - Behavioral analytics and machine learning provide L7 DoS detection and mitigation.
- Supported: API Protocol Security - Deploys security tools to secure REST/JSON, XML, and GWT APIs. Ingest OpenAPI files to automate configuration of API security.
- Supported: OWASP Top 10 Defense - Complies with OWASP top 10 vulnerability mitigations.
- Supported: Stolen Credential Protection - Protects against brute-force attacks that use stolen credentials.
- Supported: Declaritive API-based deployment and configuration integrates into DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
F5 Advanced WAF Video
F5 DevCentral's John Wagnon provides an overview of F5 Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF) that extends security beyond the basic protections traditional WAF's offer.
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Frequently Asked Questions
F5 Networks offers the Advanced Web Application Firewall (WAF) to provide bot defense, advanced application protection, anti-bot SDK, and other features.
Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF), Radware AppWall, and NetScaler ADC are common alternatives for F5 Advanced WAF.
The most common users of F5 Advanced WAF are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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March 22, 2024
F5 BIG-IP AWAF review
F5 AWAF gives application layer security protection that covers OWASP Top 10 Web & API, bot protection, mobile sdk, L7 DoS, etc. in addition to their network security/NGFW protection
- OWASP Top 10 Protection
- Bot Defense/Bot Protection
- L7 DoS Protection
- API Security
- Mobile SDK
- Mobile SDK integration, as i knew it is done by 3rd party / AppDome
- Protect customer's critical/business impact application from web application/API attacks
AWAF provides most complete web application and API protection; including L7 DoS; in custimer's multi cloud deployments whether on-premises, public cloud, private cloud, etc.
February 13, 2024
F5 Advanced WAF! More Advanced than you think
We use the F5 BIG-IP Advanecd WAF every day. It protects us every day against constant bad actors and their attacks, web scraping and just bad traffic probing. We are currently using 80% or more of its capabilities and allows us security responsible teams to have a good night sleep. We rely on it when it matters the most and gives us enough flexibility to work around and mitigate different attack vectors that we always see. We have a publicly facing web application and APIs that get all these undesired visits. Advanced WAF makes our day to day tasks a lot easier and gives us the priceless peace of mind our engineers need at night.
- Brute Force Protection for critical endpoints
- Session Tracking for all those bad actors that never want to leave
- Threat Campaigns and attack signatures for known attack vectors
- Custom rate limiting
- Brute force protection not limited to critical POST endpoints
- Better visibility of blocking and alerting events
- Every day, it helps prevent information leakage
- Every day, it prevents DOS attacks
F5 BIG-IP advanced WAF will provide just enough flexibility to protect areas and services the way others just can't.
February 13, 2024
F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall has protected us against numerous threats.
We have used F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall for protecting our apps both on prem and in the cloud. The enhanced features and granularity are far superior to native cloud WAFs. The ability to find the root cause of a session utilizing the SupportID is key in finding root cause for unexpected issues.
- Policy Configuration
- Root Cause Identification
- The interface could be a little cleaner.
- App Protect needs to mirror the ASM interface.
- F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall has protected us against numerous threats.
F5 WAF is far superior to other cloud based native apps.
April 26, 2023
DDoS protection
I use to propose F5 WAF to protect applications and APIs, because nowadays there are many applications which have open source code or third code that make then more vulnerable and for the fact that there are many types of attacks like SQLi, XXS, DDoS, bad bots attacks, client side attack and many more.
- prevent SQLi attacks
- API Security
- Bots attack protection
- Client-side protection
- DDoS Protection
- RASP
- scalability
- agnostic
- stronger security
- the applications are always on
- business continuity
because its integration are very well, making a stronger solutions to cover many more attacks.