F5 Distributed Cloud WAF leverages F5's Advanced WAF technology, delivering WAF-as-a-Service and combining signature- and behavior-based protection for web applications. It acts as an intermediate proxy to inspect application requests and responses to block and mitigate a broad spectrum of risks stemming from the OW ASP Top 10, persistent and coordinated threat campaigns, bots, and layer 7 DoS. F5 Distributed Cloud WAF requires no hardware or software to implement or maintain, set up, deploy, manage and scale. It provides hybrid deployment options to secure applications wherever they are deployed, including entirely as SaaS via F5's network points-of-presence (PoPs) or locally across public clouds, customer data centers and at the customer edge. This is accomplished leveraging F5's global network and centralized console for critical app security policy enforcement whenever it's required. Benefits F5 Distributed Cloud WAF is designed to ease the burden and complexity of consistently securing distributed web apps by delivering: Simplified operations: SaaS-delivered WAF that’s set up, deployed, managed and scale across clouds, on-premises data centers, and edge sites. DevOps agility + SecOps control: Delivers the programmability that DevOps needs combined with the efficacy and oversight that SecOps mandates, enabling faster application delivery and release cycles. Reduce time to resolution: Improve visibility and insight across WAF and DDoS security events, and into app performance, including intuitive drill-down capabilities. Comprehensive protection with fewer false positives: Utilizes both signature-based and AI/ML based detection techniques with automatic signature tuning to ensure maximum efficacy and reduced SecOps workloads.