Setting Up App Security as-a-Service for NGINX in Under 5 Minutes with F5 Essential App Protect
Setting Up App Security as-a-Service for NGINX in Under 5 Minutes with F5 Essential App Protect Modern applications require modern app security solutions. With the ever‑increasing pace of framework‑based app development, the growth of microservices topologies, and the ever‑changing security landscape, app security is becoming increasingly challenging for developer teams. This is where modern web application firewall (WAF) solutions step in. F5 Essential App Protect, launched earlier this year, and NGINX App Protect both provide WAF capabilities for NGINX and NGINX Plus by focusing on signature‑based app protection and are built with DevOps and CI/CD in mind. However, they are architected, configured, and deployed in different ways, and serve different purposes depending on your organization’s needs: NGINX App Protect runs on NGINX Plus and is deployed as a lightweight software package within your app infrastructure to provide advanced security protection for your [ more… ]