F5 Networks has announced two key security developments for enterprises to protect their web applications: its new global Security Operations Centre (SOC) facility located at the company’s headquarters in the United States and its new cloud-delivered web application firewall (WAF) service.
The SOC supports customers using the Silverline cloud-based application services platform by providing 24/7 access to highly specialised F5 security experts who monitor global layer 4-7 attack activities in real time.
The SOC recognizes and safeguards against sophisticated threats, including Web injection, credential grabbing, man-in-the-browser (MITB), man-in-the-middle (MITM), session hijacking, password stealers, and more.
F5 SOC services can be activated quickly to support F5® WebSafe, F5 MobileSafe, and DDoS Protection.
Web Application Firewall
The Silverline Web Application Firewall service provides quick web application firewall (WAF) implementation and unified, scalable policy enforcement capabilities across dynamic cloud and data centre environments.
“Enterprises today face attacks of increasing sophistication and frequency, protecting applications and data is a complex and often costly challenge. As customers deploy more enterprise-grade applications and services across traditional data centre and cloud environments, the need for security services has never been greater,” said Emmanuel Bonnassie, Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific, F5. “Effective response and mitigation requires up-to-date global intelligence that provides visibility into and context around all security threats and protection measures, given the international and constantly-changing nature of attack vectors. The team of highly specialised security researchers and analysts at the F5 SOC delivers this and helps enterprises manage a full portfolio of on-premises, cloud, and hybrid security services.”
The latest addition to the F5 Silverline cloud-based application services platform, the new WAF offering is built on the capabilities of the company’s BIG-IP Application Security Manager product.
F5 WAF services in both on-premises and subscription-based cloud offerings. The company’s WAF solutions let organisations confidently incorporate cloud resources while protecting apps and data from increasingly sophisticated security attacks, risks, and vulnerabilities.
Silverline WAF also decreases operational expenses by outsourcing WAF policy management and compliance functions to F5’s specialised SOC resources.
“With security needs outpacing the number of qualified WAF experts in the industry, many organisations find themselves under-protected. Silverline solutions expand F5’s fabric-based Synthesis framework to include cloud-delivered services—giving customers the benefit of F5 experts proactively looking after WAF functionality. This approach effectively makes F5 the application security IT engineer for the customer, with F5’s SOC experts available 24x7 to build, configure, and fine-tune security policies, providing internal personnel the opportunity to focus on other priorities,” said Edwin Seo, Regional Security Architect, Asia Pacific, F5.