The industry-leading F5 Advanced WAF provides robust web application firewall protection by securing applications against threats including layer 7 DDoS attacks, malicious bot traffic, all OWASP top 10 threats and API protocol vulnerabilities.

The F5 Advanced WAF leverages behavioral analytics, automated learning capabilities, and risk-based policies to secure your website, mobile apps, and APIs—whether in a native or hybrid Azure environment. This offering includes load balancing, IP Intelligence threat feed, and Threat Campaigns.

• Proactive bot defense protects against automated malicious bots while maintaining access for the good bots that help your business.
• OWASP Top 10 compliance dashboard to monitor prevention of OWASP Top 10 threats.
• Behavioral analytics and machine learning provide highly accurate application-layer DoS detection and mitigation.
• In-Browser data encryption protects against data-extracting malware and keyloggers.
• Virtual patching to mitigate code-level and common vulnerabilities.
• Real-time reporting capabilities allow for analysis of attacks, quickly, to drive decisions.

Additionally, F5 has made it faster and easier to deploy and configure via the following mechanisms that can be integrated with all common automation and CI/CD tools:

• F5 Automation Toolchain:
https://www.f5.com/products/automation-and-orchestration
• Azure Resource Manager Templates:
https://github.com/F5Networks/f5-azure-arm-templates

To ensure the highest level of protection for your systems and data, we strongly recommend that you update to the latest released build in each version.

List of latest released versions: 17.1.1-0.2.6, 17.1.0.3-0.77.4, 16.1.4.1-0.53.5, 15.1.10.2-0.87.2, 14.1.5.6-0.12.6, 15.1.10.3-0.0.12, 16.1.4.2-0.0.3, 17.1.1.1-0.0.2, 15.1.10.4-0.0.5

All hourly offerings include a 30-day free trial as well as access to F5 premium support, details of which are listed below.

• North America: 1-888-882-7535
• Outside North America: +800 11 ASK 4 F5 (800 1127 5435)

F5 Premium support includes 24x7 assistance from F5 Network Support Engineers both online and over the phone. In addition, F5 provides a wealth of online technical resources to assist with your F5 Solution.

Additional details can be found on:
https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K40701984