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Lightweight and Modern WAF
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.
DevOps teams need to integrate 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.
Prevent Downtime and Breaches by Securing Your Modern Apps and APIs
Wondering How NGINX App Protect Stacks Up Against Other WAFs?
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Save Time with Seamless NGINX Integration
Looking to add a WAF and advanced application security quickly to your NGINX Plus instances?
NGINX App Protect:
- Enables seamless integration of strong security controls with NGINX Plus and NGINX Ingress Controller
- Outperforms other WAFs for improved user experience
- Reduces complexity and tool sprawl while delivering modern apps
Deploy App-Centric Security
Push high‑performance, scalable, and proven security closer to your apps, protecting against revenue‑impacting attacks and data thefts.
Secure Apps with Rapid Threat Defense and Analytics
Want a WAF that’s lightweight but high‑performance and designed for modern apps?
NGINX App Protect:
- Provides expanded security beyond basic signatures to ensure adequate controls
- Utilizes F5 app‑security technology for efficacy superior to ModSecurity and other WAFs
- 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
Protect Modern Apps
Run on NGINX Plus to enable consistent app security controls for web applications, microservices, containers, and APIs.
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
Reduce Costs with Automation
Manage and automate approved security controls via CI/CD pipelines, removing workflow bottlenecks and supporting DevOps.
Technical Specifications
Distributions
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Architectures
- x86
Operating Systems
- CentOS
- Debian
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Ubuntu
- Alpine
Cloud Platforms
- Amazon Web Services
- Google Cloud Platform
- Microsoft Azure
For more technical specifications and lists of features and modules, see the full technical specifications.
