F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) - Excellent Module for Firewall Functionality
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What is F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)?
F5 Networks offers the F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager, a firewall software combining a number of features including DDoS, DNS security, and other protections.
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F5 Networks offers the F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager, a firewall software combining a number of features including DDoS, DNS security, and other protections.
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What is F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)?
F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is a full-proxy network security solution designed to protect networks and data centers against incoming threats that enter the network on the most widely deployed protocols. Built on F5’s BIG-IP hardware and software platform, BIG-IP AFM is presented as a scalable platform that delivers the flexibility, performance, and control needed to mitigate aggressive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and protocol attacks before they overwhelm and degrade business critical services.
F5 intrusion prevention system (IPS), natively a part of F5 BIG-IP AFM, performs Layer 5-7 inspection of all incoming traffic and protects more than 25 protocols and infrastructure applications against security incidents and exploits. BIG-IP AFM’s IPS solution reviews traffic for adherence to protocol standards, matching it against hundreds of known attack signatures. It protects DNS infrastructure against protocol attacks and exploits that can impact performance. For service providers, BIG-IP AFM IPS protects the network edge, performing traffic inspection and protocol adherence for prevalent service provider protocols such as SS7, Diameter, HTTP/2, GTP, SCTP and SIP traffic coming into the network over UDP, TCP, and SCTP.
F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) Features
Firewall Features
- Supported: Identification Technologies
- Supported: Visualization Tools
- Supported: Content Inspection
- Supported: Policy-based Controls
- Supported: Firewall Management Console
- Supported: Reporting and Logging
- Supported: High Availability
- Supported: Stateful Inspection
- Supported: Proxy Server
Additional Features
- Supported: High-volume logging controls - Supports, SNMP, SIP, DNS, IPFIX collectors, and protects log servers from being overwhelmed.
- Supported: S/GI firewall for service providers - Defends network infrastructure and mobile subscribers from attacks such as DDoS.
- Supported: SSH Channel Protection - Provides granular, policy-based control over SSH traffic in data centers.
F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) Videos
In this video F5 demonstrates how offloading DDoS detection and mitigation from BIG-IP AFM VE to an Intel SmartNIC empowers organizations to prevent large, complex attacks from overwhelming their virtualized environments.
F5 DevCentral's John Wagnon discusses solutions to apply BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) policies dynamically based on geolocation of source IP address.
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F5 Networks offers the F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager, a firewall software combining a number of features including DDoS, DNS security, and other protections.
Arbor Sightline, Radware DefensePro, and NETSCOUT Arbor DDoS Protection are common alternatives for F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM).
The most common users of F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
