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Muhammad_Irfan1's avatar
Aug 10, 2016

Which module of F5 is required for the purpose of WAF (Web application Firewall)?

Which modules are required to make F5 box a complete WAF?

 

  • Hi,

     

    You need LTM for reverse proxying/load balancing and ASM as application firewall.

     

  • Hi,

     

    You need LTM for reverse proxying/load balancing and ASM as application firewall.

     

    • Nuruddin_Ahmed_'s avatar
      Nuruddin_Ahmed_
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      You can buy license for APM if you want your applications to get authenticated from F5 and not from backend server. Like with LTM, you can offload SSL, in the same way, with APM, you can offload authentication

       

  • APM is the Access Policy Manager, you do not need it for the WAF function (ASM Application Security Manager)

     

  • Provision LTM and ASM for complete WAF solution.

     

    -Jinshu