Prevent Downtime and Breaches by Securing Your Modern Apps and APIs

Today’s application landscape has changed dramatically. Modern apps are microservices that run in containers, communicate via APIs, and deploy via automated CI/CD pipelines. Everything is optimized for time to market.

DevOps teams need to integrate the non‑disruptive security controls authorized by the security team across distributed environments without slowing release velocity or performance.

NGINX App Protect is a modern app‑security solution that works seamlessly in DevOps environments as you deliver apps from code to customer. Built on F5’s market‑leading WAF, our software runs natively on NGINX Plus and integrates security controls into your apps.

Why NGINX App Protect?

Deploy App‑Centric Security

Push high‑performing, scalable, and proven security closer to your apps, protecting against revenue‑impacting attacks and data thefts

Protect Modern Apps

Run on NGINX Plus as a WAF that enables consistent app security controls for web applications, microservices, containers, and APIs

Reduce Costs with Automation

Manage and automate approved security controls via CI/CD pipelines, removing workflow bottlenecks and supporting DevOps

How Do We Help You?

Save Time with Seamless NGINX Integration

Are you looking to add a WAF and advanced application security quickly to your NGINX Plus instances?

NGINX App Protect:

Enables strong security controls integrated seamlessly with NGINX Plus
Outperforms other WAFs for improved user experience
Reduces complexity and tool sprawl while delivering modern apps

Secure Apps with Rapid Threat Defense and Analytics

Want scalable, enterprise‑grade security that’s faster and more effective than ModSecurity?

NGINX App Protect:

Provides expanded security beyond basic signatures to ensure adequate controls
Utilizes F5 app-security technology for efficacy superior to ModSecurity and others
Builds on proven F5 expertise, so you can confidently run in “blocking” mode in production
Offers high‑confidence signatures for extremely low false positives
Increases visibility, integrating with third‑party analytics solutions

Make Security Agile with DevOps Integration

Need to automate security controls with Infrastructure-as-Code built into your CI/CD pipeline?

NGINX App Protect:

Integrates security and WAF natively into the CI/CD pipeline
Deploys as a lightweight software package that is agnostic of underlying infrastructure
Facilitates declarative policies for “security as code” and integration with DevOps tools
Decreases developer burden and provides feedback loop for quick security remediation
Accelerates time to market and reduces costs with DevSecOps‑automated security