Cloud providers take infrastructure security very seriously. However, it’s up to you to ensure the security of the applications and data and you put in the cloud. Running BIG-IP products in a colocation environment allows you to insert security controls at the most effective point: the digital edge, where traffic enters and exits your cloud application. You can also use purpose-built hardware for intensive tasks like rapid SSL encryption/decryption. In fact, you can recreate your security stack in a colocation facility or consolidate more of your security controls with BIG-IP solutions.
Freedom of choice.
With the BIG-IP platform, you can control access and apply common policy across cloud providers. Your application remains cloud-vendor agnostic, making it easier to implement a multi-cloud strategy or move your applications between cloud vendors as your needs change and technology advances.
Key benefits of the BIG-IP platform in colocation environments.
- Protect and control traffic to and from the public cloud.
- Apply access and security policies to applications running in the public cloud.
- Manage your solutions from a common interface across all your infrastructures.
Use cases: BIG-IP solutions in colocation environments.
- Single sign on (SSO) and cloud federation—Get simplified, secure access to applications, regardless of location.
- Web application firewall (bi-directional)—Protect your applications (and the data behind them) from application layer attacks.
- SSL termination and content inspection—Decrypt, inspect, and re-encrypt all SSL traffic to and from your cloud applications.
- DDoS protection—Shield your mission-critical applications from volumetric attacks.