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Ensure Holistic Protection for
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.
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 a robust WAF or app‑level DoS defense, helping you deliver secure apps from code to customer.
Wondering How NGINX App Protect Stacks Up Against Other WAFs?
Read the ReportWhy Use NGINX App Protect?
Save Time with Seamless NGINX Integration
Looking to quickly and easily integrate advanced app security into your NGINX Plus data‑plane instances?
NGINX App Protect:
- Seamlessly integrates strong security controls with NGINX Plus and NGINX Ingress Controller
- Defends against many advanced threats and evasive attacks
- Reduces complexity and tool sprawl while delivering modern apps
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Secure Apps with Rapid Threat Defense and Analytics
Want complete data plane security that’s lightweight, high‑performance, and designed for modern apps?
NGINX App Protect:
- Provides agile, app‑centric security from the most advanced threats – well beyond basic signatures
- Easily forwards security telemetry to third‑party analytics and visibility solutions
- Leverages F5’s leading and trusted security expertise
- Reduces false positives with high‑confidence signatures and automated behavior analysis
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Align and Integrate Security with Agile DevOps Practices
Looking to automate controls and build a “Security-as-Code” practice?
NGINX App Protect:
- Helps teams integrate security natively into CI/CD pipelines
- Deploys as a lightweight software package, agnostic of underlying infrastructure
- Leverages a declarative model for authoring security policies
- Reduces time to market and lowers costs with DevOps‑aligned security controls
- Decreases developer burden with a feedback loop for quick security remediation
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Protect Apps with a Powerful, DevOps‑Aligned WAF
Looking to secure your apps against the most sophisticated attacks?
NGINX App Protect WAF:
- Provides robust security beyond basic signatures using trusted and proven F5 security technology
- Secures apps anywhere NGINX Plus is deployed – on‑prem, Kubernetes environments, and everything in between
- Shifts security closer to the application—baking it in, not bolting it on
- Simplifies security provisioning and abstracts complexity through a tight integration with NGINX Controller
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Secure Apps from Hard-to-Detect Attacks
Want to defend apps from advanced, evasive Layer 7 DoS attacks?
NGINX App Protect DoS:
- Defends against hard-to-detect Layer 7 DoS attacks including HTTP(S) Slowloris, Slow
POST, Challenge Collapsar, and more - Uses automated user and site behavior analysis to secure apps and improve policies
- Leverages a no‑touch configuration model to simplify DoS security for modern applications
- Applies consistent controls across app deployment environments
- Integrates seamlessly with the NGINX platform
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Technical Specifications
Distributions
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Architectures
- x86
Operating Systems
- Alpine Linux
- CentOS
- Debian
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Ubuntu
Cloud Platforms
- Amazon Web Services
- Google Cloud Platform
- Microsoft Azure
Visit NGINX Docs For Full Technical Specifications
Learn about modern app security solution that works seamlessly in DevOps environments.
NGINX App Protect documentation
NGINX Webinars
Application Security with NGINX
Join this webinar to learn how easy it is to leverage NGINX security solutions to protect your applications.
Blog
Can Application Security Be Pain Free?
Application security is hard, but there are some best practices to help you achieve it: automate as much as possible, build security as a guardrail instead of a gate, select solutions that...
Ebooks
Web Application Security
Available compliments of NGINX, this O’Reilly Media eBook features practical security tips and advice that your development and security teams can use right away.
