F5 and Google Cloud: Secure App Modernization within Reach
As organizations accelerate their modernization efforts and transition to the cloud, ensuring consistent and effective security becomes increasingly difficult. It requires comprehensive, unified protections that extend from the data center to the cloud and out to the edge. Without this level of consistency, transformation efforts stall, innovation slows, and apps and services risk being left behind.
F5 and Google Cloud have partnered to meet the moment, providing the proven protection needed for successful app modernization in today’s hybrid and multicloud world.
By combining F5’s industry-leading application security and delivery technologies with Google Cloud’s cloud-native infrastructure, our joint solutions empower organizations to fully embrace modernization efforts while keeping apps safe, scalable, and optimized. The result? A faster, simpler, and more secure path to digital transformation—without compromise.
Consistent, consolidated security
Conventional app security employs an environment-by-environment approach. This can introduce management headaches and blind spots as IT and security teams work to uphold uniform security across modern, legacy, and future services.
F5 Distributed Cloud Services and Google Cloud provide a streamlined solution that empowers businesses to standardize app protections or enforce granular, per-app policies across on-premises, cloud, and edge environments. By extending Google Cloud’s security measures, F5 enables consistent protection while leveraging the flexibility and scalability of hybrid and multicloud deployments. This approach delivers centralized visibility, simplified governance, and unified management, ensuring secure and modern application experiences anywhere. It also reduces reliance on multiple toolsets, allowing teams to streamline operations while strengthening security postures.
Comprehensive cybersecurity
Bad actors continue to evade traditional defenses. From OWASP Top 10 and zero-day threats to automated DDoS and bot-based attacks, security teams must contend with new forms of malicious and sophisticated cyber threats.
By combining Google Cloud’s native multi-layered security with F5 Distributed Cloud Web Application and API Protection (WAAP), you can establish robust, unified security across app environments. It’s trusted by industry leaders to mitigate application security risks, improve visibility, and prevent cyberattacks and multi-vector threat campaigns. This allows you to confidently accelerate modernization efforts while implementing proper cybersecurity defenses for your digital experiences.
Robust API protection
APIs are a bedrock component of modern application development and drastically improve how businesses connect, scale, and integrate applications. They also represent new avenues for cyberattacks which can be difficult to protect.
F5 and Google Cloud partner to secure new, legacy, and shadow APIs, allowing you to modernize applications with confidence. With Google Cloud Apigee API management, you can build and manage APIs across hybrid and multicloud infrastructures—creating consistent and reliable backend connections for your services. Meanwhile, F5 Distributed Cloud API Security ensures comprehensive API protection wherever your applications run, without disrupting development workflows. This allows you to discover forgotten or unknown endpoints, generate and enforce consistent protection across the API lifecycle, and defend against human-driven and automated attacks with multi-layered security.
Seamless connectivity
As businesses modernize, ensuring secure connections across distributed and multicloud investments remains a challenge. Each environment has its own toolsets, and traditional network constructs don’t offer the connectivity and observability required to link disparate workloads. To address these complexities, businesses need secure multicloud networking solutions that maintain optimal app performance, no matter the location.
F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect enables you to overcome these challenges by enabling seamless connections between Google Cloud instances and other environments over a private backbone, Google’s global network or the F5 Global Network. When combined with F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect, you can effortlessly link microservices across your hybrid environment with self-maintaining, automated connections. This delivers continuously secure and reliable networking that minimizes the complexity of connecting cloud instances, data centers, and edge locations.
Secure container adoption
Organizations are turning to containers to transform their apps, improve resource utilization, and streamline deployment efforts. However, they can be highly dynamic and difficult to manage.
Google Cloud and F5 simplify container adoption, providing a smoother, easier path to app modernization. With Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), you gain a fully managed service that automates the provisioning, scaling, and maintenance of containerized infrastructure—significantly reducing the operational overhead of managing Kubernetes clusters. When paired with F5 Distributed Cloud WAF, DevOps teams can further streamline software development lifecycles by incorporating security directly into CI/CD pipelines for containerized, cloud, and other apps. This powerful combination accelerates development efforts while enabling you to deliver modern, secure digital services with less risk and higher velocity.
F5 and Google Cloud partner to drastically simplify app modernization efforts. With our trusted, scalable, and secure solutions, we enable businesses across the globe to break down silos, achieve consistent security, and confidently drive digital transformation in a hybrid and multicloud world.
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