Web application and API protection solutions | F5

Reduce risk and complexity with comprehensive protection for apps and APIs anywhere.
The F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) converges essential defenses—WAF, API security, bot management, DDoS mitigation, and more—into an integrated Web App and API Protection (WAAP) solution. As AI, hybrid multicloud architectures, and API sprawl continue to expand the attack surface, point products are creating gaps and management overhead. Integrated WAAP reduces sprawl and complexity, improve consistency, and protect critical digital experiences from evolving runtime attacks.
Stop common and emerging application-layer exploits with an effective WAF as the core enforcement point for WAAP protections.
Discover and protect APIs to reduce blind spots, prevent abuse, and protect sensitive data and business logic.
Detect sophisticated automated threats using multiple signals to protect customers, reduce fraud, and limit abuse.
Mitigate multi-vector attacks that disrupt application services, protecting uptime and performance across distributed environments.
Critical application vulnerabilities continue to emerge and attackers are moving ever faster to exploit them—often before patches are available. F5 helps reduce exposure by delivering protection close to the application across on-premises, cloud, and edge environments. With WAF protections and consistent policy management, teams can apply virtual patching to mitigate OWASP Top 10 and safeguard against zero-day risks while simplifying operations across hybrid multicloud deployments.
Ensure consistent protection across distributed apps and environments with SaaS WAF
Defend applications with advanced WAF controls and virtual patching
Secure modern apps and APIs running on F5 NGINX with Kubernetes-ready WAF
Global, SaaS-delivered managed WAF service to protect applications 24/7
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Unknown and poorly inventoried APIs expand the attack surface and expose sensitive data and business logic. F5 enables discovery and cataloging of API endpoints, baselining normal behavior and protecting APIs from development through runtime. With centralized visibility and enforcement across hybrid multicloud environments, organizations can reduce API blind spots, improve governance, and secure modern application development and connectivity at scale.
Discover and safeguard API endpoints with behavior analytics and protection
Manage and secure API traffic in modern environments with NGINX tooling
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Bots and malicious automation attacks probe for weaknesses, abuse business logic, and drive account takeover (ATO) and fraud. F5 helps detect and mitigate bots and other automated threats using multiple signals and analytics, applying step-up challenges only when needed. This improves protection and resilience without degrading the customer experience while supporting consistent operations across distributed environments.
Stop automated attacks using multi-signal detection and adaptive mitigations
Add analytics signals to improve detection, tuning, and security outcomes
Control third-party aggregator traffic to reduce abuse and business risk
Identify and mitigate malicious browser-side scripts and data skimming
DDoS attacks are increasing in frequency, scale and sophistication, impacting application availability and performance. F5 helps defend against blended, multi-vector DoS and DDoS attacks by integrating protection into distributed architectures and deployment models. Critical application services are protected through the appropriate mix of on-premises and cloud mitigation while maintaining user experience and operational control.
Stop multi-vector DDoS attacks with SaaS mitigation across distributed environments
Lightweight protection against Layer 7 DoS and DDoS attacks from F5 NGINX
Detect and mitigate DoS/DDoS with high-performance controls on-prem or with BIG-IP VE
Frontier AI models can turn a vulnerability into a working exploit before a CVE is ever disclosed, while code fixes still take weeks to move through development, testing, and deployment. Virtual patching blocks exploit attempts at runtime and in the data path, so malicious traffic never reaches vulnerable code. F5 feeds findings from continuous scanning directly into WAF policy, turning each discovered vulnerability into targeted enforcement in minutes and keeping applications protected while developers remediate through standard change control.
Ensure consistent protection across distributed apps and environments with SaaS WAF
Find applications and APIs to harden, and vulnerabilities to remediate
As applications and APIs spread across hybrid and multicloud environments, unknown or exposed assets and unaddressed vulnerabilities increase risk. F5 continuously assesses the external attack surface, identifying exposed web apps and APIs using automated testing to uncover vulnerabilities. When paired with inline controls, assessment insights inform prioritized remediation, reducing exposure while fixes are implemented.
Find applications and APIs to harden, and vulnerabilities to remediate
Monitor and reduce client-side risk from third-party and injected scripts
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Critical application vulnerabilities continue to emerge and attackers are moving ever faster to exploit them—often before patches are available. F5 helps reduce exposure by delivering protection close to the application across on-premises, cloud, and edge environments. With WAF protections and consistent policy management, teams can apply virtual patching to mitigate OWASP Top 10 and safeguard against zero-day risks while simplifying operations across hybrid multicloud deployments.
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