Advanced WAF and API Security

ASM became Advanced WAF, and the job grew with it: web applications are now mostly APIs, attackers are mostly automated, and compliance expects evidence rather than a checkbox. We deploy and operate WAF policies that reflect how your applications behave.

Platforms

• BIG-IP Advanced WAF – for applications behind BIG-IP: attack signatures and threat campaigns, positive security built from learning or OpenAPI specifications, bot defense, behavioural layer 7 DoS protection, DataSafe form encryption, and login-page and brute-force protection.
• F5 Distributed Cloud WAAP – the same protection as a service for cloud and edge applications, with API discovery, schema enforcement and centrally managed policies.
• NGINX App Protect – WAF and DoS protection inside Kubernetes and beside NGINX Plus, sharing signatures with Advanced WAF.

How we deploy a policy

• Phase 1 – negative security: signatures, threat campaigns, protocol compliance, data guard and evasion protection, in transparent mode with false-positive review.
• Phase 2 – positive security: file types, URLs, parameters and cookies learned from real traffic or imported from OpenAPI, then enforced.
• Phase 3 – API and bot protection: JSON and GraphQL profiles, JWT validation, rate limiting, bot signatures and behavioural DoS.
• Phase 4 – operations: policies in your pipeline, integration with DAST and vulnerability scanners for virtual patching, logging to your SIEM, and a tuning cadence tied to application releases.

Compliance

For PCI DSS and similar regimes we deliver the policy, the evidence and the reports – including the automated protection of public-facing web applications that PCI DSS 4.0 requires.