F5, Inc. specializes in application security, multi-cloud management, online fraud prevention, application delivery networking (ADN), application availability & performance, network security, and access & authorization. Collaborating with Cisco, F5 SSL Orchestrator can improve speed & efficiency via centralized traffic decryption and re-encryption for network security devices, including Cisco Firepower NGFW and WSA resulting in cost efficiency and better user experience. This enables Cisco Firepower NGFW to focus on providing advanced threat protection before, during, and after attacks.
Overview
Product Integrations
- Panoptica: The integration with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) plugin allows to capture Trace Sources for Panoptica's API Security controller.
- Panoptica: The integration to Nginx based on plugin allows to capture Trace Sources for Panoptica's API Security controller.
- Secure Workload: Through an open API, Cisco Secure Workload can be easily integrated with F5 BIG-IP to extend application visibility and policy enforcement to L4–L7. The F5 BIG-IP platform is a smart evolution of ADC technology, providing load balancing, WAF, DDoS, L4 firewall, and SSL VPN services to applications. F5 BIG-IP's full proxy gives visibility into—and the power to inspect, encrypt, decrypt, and control—all of the traffic that passes through the network. This combination of Secure Workload and F5 BIG-IP provides full visibility and policy enforcement from L2–L7 solution
- Secure Firewall: Through the partnership, F5 and Cisco Security have validated two deployment architectures that help customers secure critical networks, applications and end-points while achieving optimal performance. In addition, customers can architect for scale and redundancy by eliminating single points of failure.
To improve security through automation, Cisco Secure Firewall and F5 have created a remediation capability that allows critical security events such as malware (FireAMP) and IPS/IDS events to initiate rule configuration on F5's BIG-IP appliances.