F5 Distributed Cloud WAAP helps enterprises effectively defend against robot attacks with leading security protection capabilities

Today's applications have become an important engine driving business development, which means that application security is more important than ever. However, as the modernization of application architecture advances, more and more enterprises are choosing to move to the cloud, and workloads are also expanding to the edge - this means that the attack surface of enterprise applications is also expanding exponentially. In such an environment, traditional web application firewalls (WAF) and distributed denial of service (DDoS) solutions are no longer sufficient to protect your complex combination of applications and APIs from growing threats and evolving attacks. Therefore, enterprises need more comprehensive, easier to deploy, and real-time defense security protection to deal with Bot attacks and threats against APIs, which happens to be the advanced security capabilities that F5's distributed cloud WAAP solution can provide.

F5 Distributed Cloud WAAP (Web Application and API Protection) is a multi-layer protection solution that provides leading WAF capabilities while combining DDoS mitigation, Bot defense, and API security. By integrating all these security capabilities into an easy-to-deploy Software as a Service (SaaS) product, F5 provides leading security performance with a set of simplified controls to protect applications and APIs from a variety of threats.

Prevent malicious bot attacks

According to the "2021 Bot Attack Change Report" released by Kasada, most of the surveyed companies (83%) experienced at least one Bot attack (network robot attack) last year, resulting in revenue loss and increased operating costs. Among them, 77% of companies lost 6% or more of their revenue due to Bot attacks, and 39% of companies reported revenue losses of 10% or more.

F5 provides comprehensive protection against malicious Bot attacks, allowing the enterprise's application ecosystem to obtain ease of use, visibility, and the ability to identify automation and malicious traffic, no matter where or how it is deployed, to protect application and data security. Of course, this is also inseparable from F5's close cooperation with industry technology partners to ensure the company's continued return on investment and maintain the ability of existing security measures. All these measures are designed to enable enterprises to deploy comprehensive Bot protection more easily and quickly.

F5 distributed cloud services run in a global data center network, providing a cloud-native application architecture and powerful, effective application and API protection services over a wide range of areas. F5 distributed cloud bot defense is an important part of comprehensive application protection. The solution can process and divert malicious automation programs while acting as a proxy for legitimate machine-to-machine communications to defend against business logic risks such as network fraud, intellectual property theft, database attacks, account takeover, corporate espionage, and denial of service. Its main functions include:

Layered defense that protects bandwidth and services from degradation and outages

Prevent credential stuffing attacks and mitigate unauthorized access and account takeover

Client-side defense to prevent attacks that steal sensitive data through browser or third-party vulnerabilities

Behavioral defense that significantly reduces fraud losses by preventing attacks that mimic human behavior

Improve the overall user experience by removing friction including CAPTCHA and multi-factor authentication (MFA)

Share threat intelligence with similar attack signatures and risk surfaces to maximize defense effectiveness

Dynamic mitigation allows you to maintain comprehensive protection even as attackers restructure their attacks to counter existing defenses

For customers and partners who already know F5 and its Bot Defense capabilities, the above capabilities are not surprising, but what is different is how these services are delivered through the F5 distributed cloud platform. The platform enables a powerful new ecosystem and an exciting new integration opportunity. This is a truly exciting prospect for F5 employees, F5 technology partners, and the users that F5 serves.

In terms of Anti-Bot protection, F5 is constantly working to develop platforms that can more easily integrate telemetry and usage data to eliminate or reduce current limitations. For example, through F5's collaboration with Promon, customers can use the Promon SDK integrator to add F5 distributed cloud bot defense to their mobile applications in a quick and simple way. In the retail industry, F5 uses connectors to easily integrate F5 distributed cloud bot defense to protect customers' Salesforce Commerce Cloud applications.

With the F5 distributed cloud platform, it will be possible to use SDK or similar tools to directly extract previously unavailable telemetry data to the secure edge. In this way, F5 distributed cloud bot defense will take necessary security and response measures at the edge before the malicious code reaches the source server. This will eliminate unnecessary resource consumption at the source or along the way, thereby reducing the operating costs of the enterprise.

Soon, F5’s customers and alliance partners will be pleased to see F5’s distributed cloud bot defense capabilities expand into new areas as its integrated solutions are deployed across all cloud PaaS solutions, SaaS applications, hybrid architectures, and CDN vendor platforms to ensure that every enterprise has access to advanced bot defenses and sophisticated security monitoring.