F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager 5000s - security appliance

Businesses rely on applications for internal productivity and for external customer access. At the same time, applications and the data centers that host them are increasingly under threat from sophisticated, targeted attacks.

F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is a high-performance, stateful, full-proxy network firewall designed to guard data centers against incoming threats that enter the network on the most widely deployed protocols - including HTTP/S, SMTP, DNS, and FTP. By aligning firewall policies with the applications they protect, BIG-IP AFM streamlines application deployment, security, and monitoring. With its scalability, security, and simplicity, BIG-IP AFM forms the core of the F5 application delivery firewall solution.