Users expect easy access to the applications and data they need from any device and any location—whether those resources are in a data center, the cloud, SaaS based, or a hybrid environment. Access isn’t negotiable. The challenge is, to keep applications and data safe, you need to know where users are connecting from, what device they’re using, and what they’re trying to connect to. F5 Networks BIG—IP Access Policy Manager™ (APM) contextually secures, simplifies, and protects user access to apps and data, while delivering the most scalable access gateway on the market. Save time and money by combining your access infrastructure with F5 Networks BIG—IP APM™. Its scalability lets you consolidate your access gateways onto a single device or virtual edition, powered by a single policy engine. F5 Networks BIG—IP APM™ integrates with the enterprise mobility management (EMM) products you already use for enhanced security and ease of use. F5 Networks BIG—IP APM™ also has native VDI proxy support for Citrix™, Microsoft™, and VMware™ on both desktop and mobile devices. This reduces the complexity of your network design via infrastructure consolidation.

Federates user identity, drives adaptive MFA, and supports SSO to applications on—premises, in the cloud, SaaS based, and more. F5 Networks BIG—IP APM™ minimizes the time users spend logging into applications that each require separate credentials. Unifies identity and context—aware, differentiated, anytime/anywhere remote access via SSL VPN. Its secure, adaptive per—app VPN capabilities ensure focused application access from mobile devices based on provisioning, endpoint posture, and more via seamless integration with EMM applications already deployed in your network. Allows secure access and authentication to web and web—based applications. F5 Networks BIG—IP APM™ proxies web applications, providing authentication, authorization, and endpoint inspection. It enhances secure access to web—based applications via step up authentication. Enables simplified, seamless access to virtual apps through a single, consolidated gateway along with its native VDI support and a customizable, user—friendly webtop. Integrates with the access component of F5 Networks BIG—IQ Centralized Management™, so you can centrally deploy policies, centralize graphical reports and dashboards, and compile logs for analysis.

Visual Policy Creation And Management

F5 Networks BIG—IP APM™ includes the Visual Policy Editor™ (VPE), a graphical user interface that makes it easy to create, edit, and manage identity aware, context based policies—just click, pick, and move. The F5 Networks VPE™ saves you time and hassle, as well as giving you a holistic view of your policies and how they’re connected across your network. You won’t find anything quite like it from any other access vendor. F5 Networks BIG—IP Application Security Manager™ (ASM)—gives you the flexibility to deploy web application firewall (WAF) services close to apps, so they’re protected wherever they reside. F5 Networks BIG—IQ Centralized Management™—helps you manage security policies and centralize reports and alerts across F5 Networks BIG—IP AFM and F5 Networks BIG—IP APM™. F5 Networks Secure Web Gateway Services™—paired with F5 Networks BIG—IP APM™, lets you create and administer policies to manage web access, as well as spot and block web borne threats. Uniquely clear and simple F5 Networks APM Visual Policy Editor™—F5 Networks™ products, technologies, and solutions work together to make sure your applications are always protected and work the way they should.

Password Management

If your users have to create a password for every app they use, chances are they aren’t going to create a unique password every time. That makes it easier for attackers to break into your apps and steal your company’s data. F5 Networks BIG—IP APM™ lets you federate user identity and enables single sign on (SSO), simultaneously enhancing and securing access. And that’s true wherever your apps are located—data center, cloud, or hybrid environment. Using the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) standard, F5 Networks BIG—IP APM™—serving as both a SAML identity provider (IdP) and service provider—allows user credentials to remain safe and secure in one place, while a trusted token is passed to applications when a user signs in. F5 Networks BIG—IP APM™ can also handle authentication to all your apps. It supports multiple authentication methods, including multi factor authentication (MFA), so users sign in once and can securely access the apps they need to do their jobs—apps like Office or Microsoft Office 365™, Microsoft Exchange™, Microsoft SharePoint™, Salesforce™, and more—over all networks and from all devices. Extend the effectiveness of F5 Networks BIG—IP APM™ by combining it other Fe Networks products.

Features And Benefits

Cloud—F5 Networks™ application services work exactly the same way in the public and private cloud as they do in the data center. Both the F5 Networks BIG—IP™ family of devices and the VIPRION™ chassis are purpose—built, powerful hardware that F5 software runs on. Software (virtual editions)—F5 Networks BIG—IP™ virtual editions have the same features as those that run on F5 Networks™ purpose—built hardware—and you can deploy them on any leading hypervisor or select cloud providers. F5 Networks BIG—IP™ provides identity federation and single sign on (SSO), fast, secure remote and mobile access, ability to secure and manage web access, support for desktop application and virtualization, integrated forward proxy support, centralized access policy deployment and management, best in class performance and scalability, and the flexibility to customize. F5 Networks BIG—IP APM™ includes the F5 Networks Visual Policy Editor™ (VPE), a graphical user interface that makes it easy to create, edit, and manage identity—aware, context—based policies—just click, pick, and move. The F5 Networks VPE™ saves you time and hassle, as well as giving you a holistic view of your policies and how they’re connected across your network. You won’t find anything quite like it from any other access vendor.