BIG-IP Next WAF
A containerized environment for continuous web app protection, BIG-IP Next WAF ensures superior security with simplified management.
Ensure Superior Security with Simplified Management
Secure against application attacks with multiple protection layers.
- Protect Apps Against Attack - Defend against common attack vectors, including known vulnerabilities (CVEs): OWASP Top 10, SQL/PHP injection, and more.
- Quickly Mitigate Layer 7 DoS Attacks - Automatically protect with Behavioral DoS using machine learning (ML) and data analysis.
- Mitigate Active Attacks with F5 Threat Campaigns - Automatically mitigate active attack campaigns with intelligent updates by expert threat researchers at F5.
- Defend Against Malicious Traffic with F5 IP Intelligence - Deliver key contextual awareness by identifying and blocking the sources of known bad IP addresses.
- Stop Bot Attacks - Common bot protection defends against automated threats like scanners, scraping, and malware attacks.
Product Overview
A unified solution for complex, distributed architectures
BIG-IP Next WAF ensures strong and consistent security for your apps across any hybrid-cloud setup, managed through a centralized management console. BIG-IP Next WAF can be deployed on the rSeries and VELOS next-generation systems, as well as on Virtual Editions.
BIG-IP Next Central Manager
A centralized console capable of comprehensively managing, automating. and monitoring numerous BIG-IP Next instances.
BIG-IP Next Instances
A highly performant and scalable data plane responsible for processing and securing application traffic on-premises, colocation or in the cloud.
F5 Next-Gen Systems
Both the F5 rSeries family of appliances and the VELOS chassis and blades are purpose-built, powering F5 BIG-IP Next.
BIG-IP Next Virtual Editions (VE)
BIG-IP Next VEs have the same features as F5 rSeries and VELOS—and can be deployed on any hypervisor or select cloud provider.
Core Capabilities
Lower operational complexity and provide a consistent level of application security.
Improve security posture
Protect against most common attack types.
Keep protection up to date
Receive new security capabilities more rapidly.
Apply consistent protection
Import and apply consistent WAF policies.
Detect and mitigate threat intel
Stop active attack campaigns and IP threats.
Streamline operations
Simple configuration workflows and dashboards. .
Platform Support and Integrations
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F5 systems
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Private cloud
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Coming next
F5 systems support
Deploy BIG-IP Next WAF on F5’s next-generation systems, delivering a highly scalable, fully automatable platform for hosting F5 BIG-IP Next software.
Private cloud support
Shift from hardware to software within the sanctuary of your own private cloud, all while maintaining application security with BIG-IP Next Virtual Edition (VE).
Coming next
Gain the freedom to deploy your apps wherever needed while reusing the same suite of application services you know and trust. Support for BIG-IP WAF in the following environments is currently under development and is not yet supported*.
*Support for these environments is anticipated, however F5 does not guarantee support for each of these environments in future.
Resources
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Watch our on-demand webinar to discover the value you can realize when transitioning to BIG-IP Next.