Securing your Web Applications

Moving application traffic to the web has created a new doorway to vital business data. It is no wonder that Gartner estimates that 75% of online attacks take place at the application layer. Attacks within protocol and access methods, such as HTTP and XML, pose increasingly sophisticated risks to your web applications, data, and business. Such attacks can not only disrupt business operations but could lead to significant brand damage. As such, it is critical that security and application architects collaborate to build a security framework that not only secures the enterprise perimeter, but also effectively protects the web applications.

However, web application security has traditionally come at the expense of speed and user experience. Implementing application security necessarily adds another mediation point between the client and the application, slowing down the application somewhat.

No compromise needed – F5 provides complete, integrated application delivery, acceleration and security solutions that make it possible for businesses to Web-enable their applications without compromising performance or security. By integrating F5’s advanced web application firewall and comprehensive, policy-based web application security solution with its web acceleration solution, you can ensure fast application response time, while addressing emerging threats at the application level, and reducing the risk of damage to intellectual property, data, and web applications. With F5, you get a complete solution that eliminates the need for multiple appliances, lower maintenance and management costs, and increase confidentiality, availability, and integrity of your business applications and processes.

Securing User Access
Providing an end-to-end secure access infrastructure

IT organizations are struggling to keep up with the need to provide an increasing number of users with secure access to corporate resources. Adding to that burden, employees, contractors, partners, suppliers, and customers are using a variety of devices from many different locations—including remote VPN, internal LAN, and both public and internal wireless. As a result, in today's complex IT landscape, it is not enough to simply know who is accessing your data and applications. It is equally important to know what device and network they are using, as well as how secure those devices and networks are. Endpoint security gives you the ability to determine how much access to grant each user and each device. In addition to making sure that the end user device is safe, it is also important to secure the access path to the enterprise applications. F5's unified solution for end-to-end secure access for business applications innovatively combines the security of the access device and the access path by integrating comprehensive endpoint scanning with SSL-VPN based user access.

Our end user device security uses a combination of automatic detection, protection, re-routing, and quarantine to establish appropriate levels of trust--so you can determine whether a user can access all, some, or none of your corporate resources. F5's access solutions bring SSL VPN remote access security, application acceleration, and optimization services together to provide a high-performance, flexible security platform on a single appliance. Using secure VPN for encrypted traffic, F5 solutions provide policy-based, secure, and accelerated access to enterprise applications for any user, over any device or network, an industry first in combining the assurance of security with the benefits of acceleration.

Security Compliance Solutions
Achieve regulatory compliance without disrupting your IT infrastructure

Dozens of security standards regulate your customers’ identifiable information, and the number of requirements just keeps growing. The need to comply with these privacy and information control requirements is creating mounting pressure on IT organizations to manage risk. Ensuring the need for security and compliance without compromising user experience poses a major challenge for many IT managers.

F5 can help you comply with these rapidly expanding regulations with unified security solutions that respond quickly to changes in policy without disrupting your entire IT infrastructure.