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Why Managing WAFs at Scale Requires Centralized Visibility and Configuration Management In F5’s The State of Application Strategy in 2022 report, 90% of IT decision makers reported that their organizations manage between 200 and 1,000 apps, up 31% from five years ago. In another survey by Enterprise Strategy Group about how Modern App Security Trends Drive WAAP Adoption (May 2022, available courtesy of F5), the majority of IT decision makers said application security has become more difficult over the past 2 years, with 72% using a WAF to protect their web applications. As organizations continue their digital transformation and web applications continue to proliferate, so too does the need for increased WAF protection. But as with most tools, the more WAFs you have, the harder they are to manage consistently and effectively. The challenges of managing WAFs at scale include: Lack of adequate visibility into application‑layer attack vectors [ more… ]

5 Videos from Sprint 2022 that Reeled Us In The oceanic theme at this year’s virtual Sprint conference made for smooth sailing – all the way back to our open source roots. The water was indeed fine, but the ship would never have left the dock without all of the great presentations from our open source team and community. That’s why we want to highlight some of our favorite videos, from discussions around innovative OSS projects to demos involving writing poetry with code. Here, we’ve picked five of our favorites to tide you over until next year’s Sprint. In addition to the videos below, you can find all the talks, demos, and fireside chats from NGINX Sprint 2022 in the NGINX Sprint 2022 YouTube playlist. Best Practices for Getting Started with NGINX Open Source NGINX Open Source is the world’s most [ more… ]

Observability and Remote Configuration with NGINX Agent At NGINX Sprint 2022, we committed to modernizing the way we manage NGINX open source projects and engage with our community. As part of that promise, we announced the upcoming release of NGINX Agent, a daemon that manages individual NGINX deployments as companion software, providing observability and a configuration API. Today we’re proud to follow through on that promise by launching NGINX Agent under the Apache 2 license. At F5 NGINX, our vision is to build an ecosystem that extends into every facet of application management and deployment. NGINX Agent plays a pivotal role in that vision by providing Development and Platform Ops teams with granular controls and added functionality for configuring, monitoring, and managing NGINX instances. What Does NGINX Agent Do? NGINX Agent is a lightweight daemon that can be deployed alongside [ more… ]