F5 Distributed Cloud API Security

6 reviews

Discover, Control, and Mitigate Threats to APIs Using Machine Learning F5® Distributed Cloud API Security is a comprehensive solution to securely manage APIs across any data center or cloud using a simple, fast, and scalable architecture. It helps drive business velocity by enabling automated API deployments and management, while also protecting against API-specific threats. Distributed Cloud API Security—part of the F5® Distributed Cloud Web App & API Protection (WAAP) solution—delivers advanced security controls in a SaaS-based solution, reducing tool sprawl and architectural complexity. Using advanced analytics on the data collected across users on its multi-tenant platform, Distributed Cloud API Security identifies behavioral anomalies and automatically updates to mitigate threats from users as well as internal apps. You get discovery and deep insights, leveraging AI and machine learning (ML). Block API attacks in real time and eliminate vulnerabilities at their source. A SaaS-based portal will manage and provide threat analytics, forensics, and troubleshooting for your modern application. Detect and block Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) API Top 10 attacks in real time by using automatic detection at the development and production layers.

F5 NGINX Management Suite

5 reviews

"NGINX Management Suite provides holistic visibility and control of NGINX instances, application delivery services, API management workflows, and security solutions. It is used to streamline four key areas: Scale – Intelligently scale NGINX instances and services with global policy controls using CI/CD automation to drive workflows, service configuration and provisioning, and multi‑cloud management Insight – Improve business decisions, troubleshooting, and SLAs with uniform visibility across NGINX instances, apps, APIs, and security posture Governance – Provide each team supporting apps and APIs with self‑service workflows, single sign‑on (SSO), and role‑based access control (RBAC) while making sure they remain compliant with organizational and industry standards Security – Achieve the security enterprise demands with tools that enable comprehensive visibility and policy control over the entire NGINX environment"

F5 Beacon

5 reviews

F5 Beacon is a Software-as-a-Service solution designed to provide comprehensive, end-to-end visibility into an organization's application landscape. By aggregating telemetry data from various sources—including F5's BIG-IP, NGINX, and third-party technologies—Beacon delivers actionable insights that facilitate troubleshooting and informed decision-making for application owners and IT operations professionals. This application-centric approach enables organizations to focus on enhancing application performance and user experience without the need for extensive integration efforts. Key Features and Functionality: - Comprehensive Application Visibility: Beacon ingests telemetry data from multiple sources to provide a holistic view of application topologies, dependencies, user experience, health, and performance. - Actionable Insights: Through its open and extensible platform, Beacon offers insights that assist in anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and security compliance, enabling proactive management of application health. - Integration with Diverse Ecosystems: Beacon seamlessly integrates with F5's portfolio, including BIG-IP and NGINX, as well as third-party technologies, ensuring broad compatibility across various deployment environments. - Application-Centric Analytics: By orienting data and analytics around individual applications, Beacon allows organizations to concentrate efforts on improving specific application performance and end-user experience. Primary Value and Problem Solved: F5 Beacon addresses the critical challenge of achieving end-to-end visibility in complex, multi-cloud application environments. By consolidating telemetry data from diverse sources, it provides a unified view of application health and performance, enabling organizations to: - Enhance Decision-Making: Access to comprehensive insights allows for informed decisions regarding application management and optimization. - Improve User Experience: Proactive monitoring and analysis help in identifying and resolving issues promptly, leading to a better end-user experience. - Streamline Operations: The application-centric approach reduces the complexity of managing multiple applications across different environments, thereby increasing operational efficiency. By offering these capabilities, F5 Beacon empowers organizations to maintain robust, high-performing applications that meet the demands of today's digital landscape.

F5 Distributed Cloud DNS

3 reviews

F5 Distributed Cloud DNS simplifies DNS delivery across multi-cloud environments and modern applications. This SaaS-based primary and secondary authoritative DNS service offers global distribution, DDoS protection, DNSSEC, and the flexibility to automatically scale to meet growing application demands. As a company’s primary DNS, Distributed Cloud DNS brings maximum performance with a geo-distributed cloud network and built-in DDoS protection. As a secondary DNS, it helps reduce the load on your primary service, providing redundancy in the event of a primary service failure and improving response times if your primary service is disabled or degraded in any way. By using it either as a primary or secondary DNS solution, companies can simplify DNS management and security while easing the burden on your operations and development teams.

F5 Container Ingress Services

3 reviews

F5® Container Ingress Services is a solution designed to enhance the scalability, reliability, and security of containerized applications by integrating F5's BIG-IP application services with container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift. By bridging traditional and modern application architectures, CIS enables organizations to deploy applications faster while maintaining consistent performance and security policies. Key Features and Functionality: - Dynamic Application Services: CIS integrates with container environments to manage application services, providing Ingress control for HTTP routing, load balancing, and application delivery performance. - Automated Event Discovery: It enables self-service Ingress HTTP routing and app services selection by subscribing to events, automatically configuring performance, routing, and security services on BIG-IP. - Scalability and Security: CIS integrates with the BIG-IP platform to scale applications for availability and enable app services insertion, supporting Ingress load balancing with BIG-IP and NGINX. - Faster Deployment: The solution speeds up deployments with predefined BIG-IP templates and support for the Application Services 3 Extension, simplifying policy management and resulting in faster app deployments. - Comprehensive Visibility: CIS provides a rich set of Layer 4–7 statistics for all container traffic and enhances application insights via data-stream export to analytics platforms like Splunk. Primary Value and Problem Solved: F5 Container Ingress Services addresses the challenges of deploying and managing containerized applications by providing a seamless integration between F5's advanced application services and container orchestration platforms. It enables organizations to: - Enhance Scalability and Reliability: By automating the deployment and management of application services, CIS improves the scalability and reliability of containerized applications. - Streamline Administration: The solution simplifies the management of application services with self-service and automated event discovery, reducing the complexity of configurations. - Improve Security and Performance: CIS ensures secure and high-performance application services with integrated app services insertion and load balancing, protecting container data and applications. - Accelerate Time to Market: With predefined templates and seamless integration with container orchestration environments, CIS accelerates deployment times, enabling faster delivery of applications. - Provide Comprehensive Visibility: The solution offers detailed insights and analytics for better monitoring and troubleshooting of containerized applications, enhancing operational efficiency. By leveraging F5 Container Ingress Services, organizations can effectively manage the complexities of modern application architectures, ensuring consistent performance, security, and scalability across their containerized environments.

F5 BIG-IP WAF AWS Deployment & Integration

2 reviews

Vandis engineers will work with your network and security teams to integrate F5 Network BIG-IP WAFs into your private network design on AWS. We will assist with the design and configuration of the VPC, subnets, DMZ, Security Groups, Route Tables, and EC2 Auto Scaling Groups as needed, and then deliver those in a detailed design and implementation document.

F5 Distributed Cloud DDoS Mitigation

2 reviews

F5 Distributed Cloud DDoS Mitigation is a cloud-delivered service designed to detect and mitigate both volumetric and application-layer DDoS attacks in real-time, ensuring the availability and performance of your network infrastructure and applications. Leveraging F5's global network infrastructure and Security Operations Center , this service offers high-capacity, multi-layered protection capable of withstanding multi-terabit attacks. Key Features and Functionality: - Volumetric Layer 3-4 DDoS Protection: Mitigates large-scale network-level attacks, such as TCP SYN floods and UDP amplification attacks, using multi-terabit ingest capacity. - Application Layer 7 Mitigation: Protects against application-specific attacks like HTTP floods and slowloris attacks that aim to exhaust server resources. - DNS Attack Protection: Identifies and stops DNS floods, reflection, and amplification attacks targeting DNS infrastructure. - Service Levels and Support: Offers flexible deployment options, including Always Available and Always On subscriptions, with 24x7 support from certified F5 experts and a 99.99% uptime SLA. - Attack Mitigation Insights: Provides transparent visibility and reporting before, during, and after an attack through a centralized console. - AI Assistant: Utilizes natural language queries to streamline analysis of security events, offering actionable recommendations and improving incident response times. Primary Value and Problem Solved: F5 Distributed Cloud DDoS Mitigation ensures the continuous availability and performance of critical applications and infrastructure by proactively detecting and mitigating sophisticated DDoS attacks. By leveraging F5's extensive global network and expert support, organizations can protect against both volumetric and application-layer attacks, reducing the risk of downtime and maintaining a seamless user experience. This service addresses the growing challenge of increasingly frequent and complex DDoS attacks, providing scalable and reliable protection tailored to modern application environments.

F5 BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager (PEM)

2 reviews

F5's BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager (PEM is a comprehensive solution designed to enhance network performance and subscriber experience through intelligent policy management. By providing deep visibility into subscriber behavior and application usage, PEM enables service providers to optimize network resources, implement differentiated services, and introduce new revenue-generating offerings. Key Features and Functionality: - Traffic Detection and Classification: Utilizes machine learning to identify and categorize over 4,000 applications, including both encrypted and unencrypted Over-The-Top (OTT video content. - Video Optimization: Manages various video types, such as UDP/QUIC-based encrypted Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR video, and controls video resolutions to conserve bandwidth. - Traffic Steering: Employs Layer 4–7 intelligent traffic steering to enable new services and optimize network performance. - Policy Enforcement: Provides bandwidth control and priority management with granularity at both subscriber and application levels. - URL Filtering: Implements customized URL filtering policies to protect the network and simplify compliance processes. - Subscriber Awareness: Performs subscriber identification via RADIUS and DHCP, gathering information such as IP address, IMSI, and username to correlate with application flows for a deeper understanding of usage patterns. - Statistics Export: Exports extensive application data statistics for enhanced network visibility and analysis. - Charging Integration: Integrates with Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF and Online Charging System (OCS for real-time credit control and quota management. Primary Value and Solutions Provided: BIG-IP PEM addresses the challenges faced by service providers, such as escalating data traffic, declining average revenue per user (ARPU, and increasing infrastructure costs. By offering deep insights into network conditions and subscriber behavior, PEM empowers providers to: - Drive Revenue with New Services: Develop and enforce service plans based on subscriber levels, locations, and devices, enabling the creation of relevant plan tiers and over-the-top services tailored to user behavior patterns. - Increase Network Efficiency: Detect and control ABR video traffic, particularly encrypted streams, to optimize network resources and maintain subscriber quality of experience. - Improve Subscriber Experience: Implement smarter traffic steering and sophisticated policy management to ensure a fast, reliable, and available network, leading to higher customer satisfaction and reduced churn. By consolidating multiple core services onto a unified, highly scalable platform, BIG-IP PEM helps service providers manage network congestion, enhance service performance, and introduce innovative offerings without incurring exorbitant infrastructure costs.

F5 Distributed Cloud CDN

2 reviews

F5 Distributed Cloud CDN is a high-performance content delivery network designed to accelerate web applications and APIs by leveraging a global network of strategically positioned servers. This service enhances user experiences by caching both static and dynamic content closer to end-users, reducing latency and minimizing origin server load. Integrated with robust security features and multicloud support, it simplifies content delivery across diverse environments. Key Features and Functionality: - Global Content Caching: Efficiently caches static and dynamic assets worldwide, ensuring rapid content delivery. - Smart Caching Policies: Offers customizable caching rules to optimize performance and maintain content accuracy. - Integrated Security: Provides end-to-end security with TLS authentication, DDoS protection, and web application firewall capabilities. - Multicloud and Edge Support: Facilitates seamless deployment across data centers, multiple clouds, and edge locations. - Real-Time Analytics: Delivers comprehensive insights into application performance and security metrics. Primary Value and User Solutions: F5 Distributed Cloud CDN addresses the critical need for fast, secure, and reliable content delivery in today's digital landscape. By reducing bandwidth costs through intelligent caching and minimizing origin server requests, it enhances application performance and scalability. The integrated security measures protect against various threats, ensuring data integrity and compliance. Its support for multicloud and edge deployments offers flexibility, allowing businesses to adapt to evolving infrastructure needs while maintaining centralized control and visibility.