The environment in which applications are deployed is always changing. Traffic can suddenly spike as a result of legitimate demand. Bots can impersonate users perpetuating fraud or cause other types of mayhem. Determined cyber criminals can break through previously solid defenses. Server outages can disrupt normal traffic patterns, potentially taking an application offline for some or all users.
Application security and delivery technology—such as traffic management, web application firewalls, load balancing, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection, and API management—interacts with the environment around the application, enabling it to adapt to changing conditions. These and other application services help to ensure the performance, security and operability of the applications they support by shaping and steering traffic in response to the application state, the nature of the traffic itself, and other environmental factors.
As digital transformation reshapes the modern enterprise, applications are becoming an increasingly important source of differentiation. In today’s ever more competitive economy, organizations often need to manage hundreds and even thousands of applications with unprecedented speed, scale, and agility.
As innovation continues to increase, so, too, have concerns about security and delivering a consistent experience across environments. Application services help organizations boost performance, maintain availability, improve network and application security, and gain visibility into the behavior and health of their apps. By incorporating F5 application services into their systems today, enterprises can obtain the foundation they need to improve efficiency, increase their adaptability, and achieve a long-term competitive advantage.
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