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Sushant
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Jul 03, 2021

Placing F5 between application and database

What are the Pros and Cons of placing F5 between application and database ?
ASM Advanced WAF
database
security
TMOS
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    Daniel_Wolf
    Sep 13, 2021

    The WAF would not do the policy enforcement on SQL level, but the database security product. The database security would signal the result to the WAF and then the WAF would either allow the request to pass or not.

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Sushant
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Hello Daniel,

 

The logical way I was thinking looks to be correct .. RIght ?

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Sushant
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Sep 13, 2021

ok daniel atleast i got idea about some of the database security products and the things that could get integrated with WAF