F5 upgrades Web App firewall

MUMBAI, INDIA: F5 Networks, Inc., a player in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), announced availability of its v10 release of the BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM) web application firewall.

BIG-IP ASM is aimed at enterprises and service providers that need to consolidate their infrastructure and more confidently secure, deploy, and optimize applications.

The new version of BIG-IP ASM provides enhanced attack protection, threat mitigation, and application visibility, as per a release. It is available as a standalone device or as a software module on BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager, F5’s market-leading Application Delivery Controller. In addition, BIG-IP ASM is available on F5’s VIPRION hardware platform, for improving scalability and performance for large organizations as well as content and service providers.

The release further added that operating on F5’s TMOS architecture, BIG-IP solutions unify application security, traffic management, and acceleration capabilities onto a single device to realize up to a 50 percent bandwidth reduction and up to a 10x user performance increase. By providing application services on a unified platform, BIG-IP solutions eliminate the need for multiple appliances, lowering capital and operating expenses while increasing the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of critical web applications and processes. As a key component of F5’s vision of unified application and data delivery services, BIG-IP ASM provides an integrated web application security solution.

“Workforce efficiency greatly depends on how quickly and securely data and resources are delivered to users,” said Jon Oltsik, senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group. “By understanding the context of network, application, and user interactions, dynamic infrastructure components like F5’s BIG-IP solutions can better optimize the services users require. Specifically, the recent enhancements to BIG-IP Application Security Manager provide ‘baked-in’ intelligence and flexibility to help enterprise organizations customize their IT environments and do more with less.”