CASE STUDY
What F5 technology do you currently
have in place?
ADJD is running the F5 VIPRION platform
equipped with BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager
to simplify, automate and customise
application delivery.
We are also using F5’s Silverline Web
Application Firewall service. This provides a
WAF implementation and unified, scalable
policy enforcement capabilities. The service
also includes 24x7 support from highly
specialised F5 security experts with the
company’s Security Operations Center
(SOC) resources.
In addition, the project features F5’s
Virtual Clustered Multiprocessing, the
industry’s first purpose-built hypervisor,
allowing the complete segmentation of
purpose-built, scalable resources into
independent, virtual ADCs.
What have been the major benefits
of the solution (The F5 VIPRION
platform equipped with BIG-IP Local
Traffic Manager)?
The F5 VIPRION platform is equipped
with BIG-IP LTM to simplify, automate,
and customise application delivery to ensure
greater security, availability and quality
of service.
Essentially, BIG-IP LTM gives us an in-depth
understanding of our network’s application
traffic and comprehensive control over how
it’s handled. It enables the transformation
of chaotic volumes of network traffic into
logically assembled streams of data.
This allows us to make intelligent traffic
management decisions, selecting the right
destination based on server performance,
security and availability.
Because BIG-IP LTM is a full proxy, it means
we can inspect, manage, and report on
application traffic both entering and exiting
the network to achieve a new level of
granular control.
For example, if we want to direct traffic
based on the requested URL, or log specific
server responses to a reporting system, BIG-
IP LTM has the architecture and the tools
to do so.
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BIG-IP LTM can also optimise the speed
and reliability of our applications via both
the network and application layers. Using
real-time protocol and traffic management
decisions based on application and
server conditions, extensive connection
management, and TCP and content
offloading, BIG-IP LTM dramatically
improves page load times and overall
user experience.
How has the solution allowed you
to improve the performance of your
key applications?
BIG-IP LTM allows us to improve the
performance of our applications by
reducing traffic volume and minimising
bottlenecks by dividing the huge traffic into
a controlled stream.
The solution gives us comprehensive load
balancing, application health monitoring,
high availability and transaction assurance.
Other benefits include:
• Automating and customising with
programmable infrastructure: we
can control our applications – from
connection and traffic to configuration
and management – with F5 iRules LX,
the next stage of evolution for network
programmability that brings Node.js
language support to the BIG-IP platform
• Transitioning to SDN and cloud networks:
BIG-IP LTM has the capability to realise
operational consistency and comply with
business needs across physical, virtual
and cloud environments with deployment
flexibility and scalability
• Easily deploying and managing
applications: user-defined F5 iApps BIG IP
LTM’s templates make it easy to deploy,
manage and get complete visibility into
our applications
• Securing critical applications app
protection via industry-leading SSL
performance and visibility
What are the main benefits of
F5’s Silverline Web Application
Firewall Service?
As security attacks across traditional
and cloud environments become
more sophisticated, our in-house security
teams must stay up to date on the latest
attacks and protection measures, as well as
deliver consistent policies and compliance
across environments.
A lack of consistency can result in security
vulnerabilities, higher expenses, and a slower
response to threats and compliance issues.
F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall is a
cloud-based service with 24x7x365 support
from highly specialised security experts.
It helps us protect web applications and
data and enable compliance with industry
security standards. Key benefits include:
• Application security and compliance:
comprehensive protection from advanced
layer seven attacks, OWASP Top 10
application security risks and zero-day
attacks. The solution also helps ensure
compliance with key regulatory mandates
• Identification and mitigation of
malicious bots that bypass standard
detection methods
• Mitigations that learn and adapt to
unique application-layer user interaction
patterns, enabling dynamic defences
based on changing conditions
• Consistent web application security,
availability, and user experience across
traditional data centres and multi-cloud
• Expert support on tap: We receive
24x7x365 access to WAF experts who
build, proactively monitor, and fine-tune
policies against known and emerging
threats. Access real-time attack data
and reports through the cloud-based
customer portal and incorporate external
intelligence to secure apps against
identified threats
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