
F5 Distributed Cloud Managed Services offer a suite of SaaS-based solutions designed to protect and optimize applications and infrastructure across diverse environments, including data centers, multi-cloud setups, and edge locations. These services provide continuous monitoring, performance optimization, compliance adherence, and comprehensive support to ensure the security and efficiency of your applications. Key Features and Functionality: - Continuous Monitoring and Support: 24/7 monitoring to detect and address performance and security issues, backed by a dedicated team of F5 experts. - Application Performance Optimization: Advanced load balancing and performance tuning to enhance application availability and responsiveness. - Compliance and Reporting: Services designed to meet industry standards, offering detailed reports on usage, performance, and security incidents. - Education and Training: Tailored training programs covering new features and onboarding to maximize platform utilization. Primary Value and Solutions Provided: F5 Distributed Cloud Managed Services simplify the complexities of managing and securing applications across distributed environments. By offering flexible packages—Standard, Enhanced, and Enhanced+—organizations can select the level of service that aligns with their specific needs. These services address critical challenges such as ensuring high application availability, maintaining robust security postures, achieving compliance with industry regulations, and providing continuous support and education. Ultimately, they enable businesses to focus on their core operations while F5 manages the intricacies of application security and performance.

BIG-IP DDoS Hybrid Defender is a comprehensive security solution designed to protect organizations from a wide range of Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks across network and application layers. By integrating on-premises and cloud-based technologies, it offers flexible deployment options—including inline, out-of-band, and hybrid configurations—to suit diverse network architectures. This multi-layered defense system ensures high performance and scalability without compromising legitimate traffic. Key Features and Functionality: - Behavioral DoS Detection: Automatically generates dynamic signatures for rapid and accurate threat identification, enhancing protection against sophisticated attacks. - Line-Rate Mitigation: Provides sub-second attack detection with geo-tracking and intelligent signaling, ensuring swift response to threats. - Advanced Mitigation Techniques: Offers configurable rate limiting, connection limiting, and source limiting to effectively manage and block malicious traffic. - SSL/TLS Decryption: Enhances visibility into encrypted traffic, enabling inspection and mitigation of application-layer attacks over HTTPS. - Proactive Bot Defense: Identifies and mitigates malicious bot activity before it can impact network resources. - Flexible Deployment Options: Supports various deployment modes, including inline, out-of-band, cloud-delivered, or hybrid, to integrate seamlessly with existing network infrastructures. Primary Value and Problem Solved: BIG-IP DDoS Hybrid Defender addresses the critical need for robust and adaptable DDoS protection in today's complex threat landscape. By offering multi-layered defense mechanisms, it safeguards both network and application layers from volumetric and sophisticated attacks. Its flexible deployment options and automated systems enhance operational efficiency, allowing organizations to maintain high availability and performance of their applications and services without the need for extensive manual intervention.

The F5 Distributed Cloud Platform is a modern, SaaS-based solution that unifies cloud, data center, and edge environments to connect, protect, and manage applications seamlessly. It delivers integrated networking and security services, along with unified workload orchestration across distributed infrastructures, enabling organizations to deploy, secure, and operate applications in a cloud-native environment, whether in data centers, multi-cloud setups, or at the network edge. Key Features and Functionality: - SaaS Console: A logically centralized, multi-tenant console providing global control, observability, orchestration, and automation at scale. - F5 Global Network: A multi-terabit per second global transit backbone with regional edge compute points of presence near major global metros, ensuring low-latency and high-performance application delivery. - Distributed Cloud App Stack: An application execution stack that includes distributed Kubernetes, identity management, zero-knowledge secret management, and continuous application validation, facilitating efficient application deployment and management. - Distributed Cloud Mesh: A networking and security stack featuring BGP routing, VPN, cluster ingress/egress, application delivery controller , TCP/HTTP proxy, web application firewall , API security, and machine learning-based anomaly detection, providing comprehensive security and connectivity. - Integrated Multi-Layer Security: Advanced protection mechanisms, including DDoS mitigation, network and web application firewalls, and API security, safeguard applications from various threats across all environments. - Operational Simplicity: An integrated, automated, and consistent set of SaaS-based services across different environments reduces management effort, minimizes misconfigurations, and enhances cross-team coordination and productivity. Primary Value and Problem Solved: The F5 Distributed Cloud Platform addresses the complexities associated with managing and securing applications across diverse and distributed environments. By providing a unified platform that integrates networking, security, and application management services, it simplifies operations, enhances security, and improves application performance. Organizations benefit from reduced operational overhead, accelerated time-to-service, and increased security efficacy, enabling them to focus on innovation and delivering value to their customers.

F5 Secure Web Gateway Services verifies endpoint integrity before and after users connect to the web. It’s the only web access gateway to secure against both inbound and outbound malware. With powerful URL categorization and filters, you can allow, block, or confirm and continue access to sites and applications, on a user-by-user basis. It provides security without compromising employee productivity. With F5 Secure Web Gateway Services, you can gather content- and context-aware data, then process it using powerful malware analytics tools, so you can detect patterns that indicate complex attack vectors, like advanced persistent threats (APTs). F5 Secure Web Gateway Services allow you to connect to a cloud-based threat intelligence system that monitors web and social media content. By processing up to five billion content requests daily, it analyzes a substantial amount of current data to proactively predict, locate, and identify the latest threats.


F5 Per-App Virtual Editions (VEs) provide traffic management and Web Application Firewall (WAF) functionality on a 'per-app' basis. F5 Per-App VEs deliver the same scalable, secure and customizable market-leading services provided by traditional F5 physical and virtual ADCs- at a price and in a form factor appropriate for supporting individual apps. Each Per-App VE supports 1 VIP and up to 3 virtual servers.

Digital Education: All Access includes BIG-IP Fundamentals and Administration, F5 Advanced WAF, Configuring BIG-IP DNS, Configuring BIG-IP on VIPRION, Advanced Firewall Manager, and NGINX Core.

F5 Distributed Cloud Authentication Intelligence provides continuous authentication to establish trust, reduce friction of excessive logins and reauthentication through machine learning and analytics insights with an integrated platform that stops automated and human-driven fraud while simultaneously optimizing user experience for trusted customers across the entire user journey.

Powered by a closed-loop AI engine and large-scale unified telemetry built on over a billion transactions per day, Distributed Cloud Account Protection monitors transactions in real-time from across the entire user journey. Using advanced signal collection, as well as behavioral and environmental insights, the platform determines user intent, detecting malicious activity and targeting high fraud detection rates. The platform’s AI engine provides a single, high-fidelity, real-time outcome while adaptive ML provides retraining and continuous enhanced detection.


F5 is a multi-cloud application services and security company committed to bringing a better digital world to life. F5 partners with the world’s largest, most advanced organizations to optimize and secure every app and API anywhere, including on-premises, in the cloud, or at the edge. F5 enables organizations to provide exceptional, secure digital experiences for their customers and continuously stay ahead of threats. For more information, go to f5.com.