Question

Is a WAF like Akamai or an F5 ASM external and internal systems a great resource for organizations worried about losing their availability due to a DOS or DDOS attack?

Answer 1

Yes, a WAF like Akamai or an F5 ASM external and internal systems are a great resource for organizations worried about losing their availability due to a DOS or DDOS attack:

F5 ASM is the acronym for F5 Application Security Manager. It is basically a flexible Web Application Firewall (WAF) securing web applications in traditional, virtual, and private cloud environments. It thus provides advanced WAF protection. It is the best WAF. Moreover, F5 company is positioned as a leader in The Forrester Wave: Web Application Firewalls (WAFs), Q2 2018 and is at a top ranking in the market presence category. It is a right WAF solution for companies. F5 Advanced WAF protects enterprise or companies' apps from the most recent threats irrespective of them are on-premises or in the cloud. It offers:
* Best-in-class protection from any credential theft and abuse.
* It provided detailed mitigation of web and mobile bot threats.
* It offers L7 (Layer 7) or application layer DoS (Denial of Service) and DDoS detection using machine learning and behavioral analytics.
* It also protects, systems, web-applications from DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks.
* It basically provides defense against attacks.
* It identifies and verifies attacks.
* It evaluates attack sources.
* It ensures secure access.
* It eliminates security threats.
* It has a satisfaction rating.

What unique capabilities F5 Advanced WAF has that sets itself apart from other WAF solutions is it identifies and blocks attacks other WAF solutions miss. F5 with its BIG-IP ASM solution or product has helped organizations become aggressive in tuning their devices for their security needs in general. Organizations do a better job of blocking bad traffic such as DoS, DDoS, and other traffic while allowing valid traffic with legitimate requests.
* It also helps organizations defend against web attacks and achieve regulatory compliance.
* Its key benefit is ensuring application availability stopping and defending attacks from any location and IP address, improving application security and in turn its performance.
* It improves protection with external intelligence.
* It provides detailed security.
* It provides out-of-the-box protection.
* It protects web applications' sensitive data exposed to potential theft, security vulnerabilities, and multi-layer attacks.
* It, in turn, protects organizations' reputation maintaining the confidentiality, availability, and performance of their applications critical to their company's business.
* It secures applications against unknown vulnerabilities.
* It strengthens traffic management, network firewall, application access, DDoS protection, SSL inspection, and DNS security.
* It provides protection from cross-site request forgery.
* Protection from session hijacking.
* It provides comprehensive attack protection from XML bombs or DoS.
* Protection from SQL injection.
* It provides geolocation-based blocking security feature.
* It provides integrated XML firewall.
* Provides DataGuard and cloaking.
* Offers data center firewall solution.

Even WAF like Akamai product or solution would provide and offer same, similar, and more or less the same options, features, benefits, and solutions.