# Real-Time Web Application Protection for VMware Cloud Foundation

Protect web applications in real time and achieve compliance with a centralized and scalable Web Application Firewall (WAF).

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## Context-Aware Protection for Web Applications

Avi App Security offers context-aware, real-time protection for web apps. It ensures security compliance with closed-loop analytics, centralized management, and adaptive security policies with WAF.

### Simplify Application Security

Streamline app security with unified WAF, DDoS and bot protection, managed easily from one centralized dashboard.

### Ensure Regulatory Compliance

Gain protection against threats in real time including OWASP Top 10 using live threat intelligence, closed-loop analytics, updated rules, centralized policies, and ensures PCI-DSS and GDPR compliance.

### Gain Visibility for Real Time Threat Protection

Gain real-time visibility and threat protection with centralized analytics and machine learning. Get actionable security insights on app performance, user interactions and security events.

### Deliver Elastic and Agile Security

Avi WAF scales dynamically against attacks, detects zero-day threats early with live intelligence and analytics, ensuring continuous, adaptive protection while maintaining app performance.

We saved over 50% to 60% in application troubleshooting time and effort.

- Joris Vuffray, Head Of Network & System Management, Swisslos

## Features and Benefits

#### Web Application Protection

Protect Web apps against threats at the ingress to the application infrastructure.

#### Context Aware WAF

Robust context-aware firewall to protect apps and ensure compliance with PCI-DSS, GDPR and OWASP.

#### Bot Management

Determine if traffic is human or bot, then permit or block based on business policies.

#### SSL Offload

Gain visibility into encrypted traffic and enhance application performance with decryption and re-encryption services.

#### DDoS Mitigation

As the last line of defense, the load balancer must detect and mitigate L4-L7 attacks.

## Use Cases

## Achieve Web Application Compliance

Gain easy compliance with real-time visibility and automatic scaling, defending against threats and meeting regulations like GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS, which mandate WAF deployment by March 31, 2025.

## Empower DevOps with Self Service capability

Simplified self-service and automation for DevOps and infrastructure teams via API-driven configuration, enabling rapid onboarding and consistent security policy enforcement.

## Scalable Application Security with WAF

Obtain scalable application security through a centralized, elastic platform designed for modern environments unlike appliance based traditional WAF solutions.

## Real-Time Threat Intelligence

Gain live threat intelligence with curated signatures and real-time updates to protect web applications from OWASP Top 10 attacks and more.