F5, J2R Solutions, and Carahsoft attended the F5 DoD Virtual User Group (VUG). Today’s application landscape has changed dramatically. Modern apps in the DoD use microservices to run-in containers, communicate via APIs, and are automated, orchestrated, and deployed via CI/CD pipelines. DevSecOps teams need to integrate security controls authorized by the security team across a distributed on-prem and cloud environment without delaying release speed to the mission partner, negating security posture, or slowing down performance. NGINX App Protect is a modern software-based app-security solution that works seamlessly in DevOps environment as a robust WAF or app-level DoS defense by helping you deliver secure apps from code out to the warfighter.

In this VUG and Lab, attendees learned how NGINX App Protect and DoS can help protect modern application environments. We covered the following topics:

• Deploy and secure modern application with modern tools
• API Security
• NGINX App Protect in Linux host
• NGINX App Protect in Docker
• NGINX App Protect in Kubernetes Ingress Controller
• Advanced features