BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)

Network firewall module for the F5 BIG-IP platform, available on BIG-IP/VIPRION hardware, as a virtual edition, and as cloud CNF/VNF. BIG-IP AFM is a core component of F5’s application protection solutions, which combine four key security elements: firewall, DDoS mitigation, DNS security, and application Intrusion Protection Systems (IPS). BIG-IP AFM is a high-performance, full-proxy network security solution designed to protect networks and data centers against incoming threats that enter the network on the most widely deployed protocols. BIG-IP AFM, an ICSA lab certified firewall, drives accurate detection with machine learning, stress monitoring, dynamic signatures, and attack mitigation. It is recorded as supporting application control, central management console, deep packet inspection and intrusion prevention (ips).

Current Version

21.1.0.1

Product Page

f5.com/…/advanced-firewall-manager

Market

EnterpriseService Provider

Licence

Paid

Price

Quote

Record Created

2026-09-19

Last Updated

2026-10-28

F5 is an application delivery company, founded in Seattle in 1996 and listed on Nasdaq, and its equipment sits in front of applications rather than on endpoints: load balancing traffic, terminating encryption and enforcing policy at the point where users meet a service. Its security products grow out of that position. BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager is the network firewall module within its BIG-IP platform, and BIG-IP Next Edge Firewall CNF is the container-native version for Kubernetes environments; alongside them sit its web application firewall, bot defence and API security products, and NGINX, the web server and proxy it acquired in 2019 and still publishes as open source. What F5 protects is the application side of a network, which is not what the endpoint laboratories test. Its rows here record the firewall products rather than comparative malware results. Vendor page →

Website

f5.com

Country

🇺🇸United States

Headquarters

🇺🇸Seattle, United States

Year Established

1996

Customers

23K organisations

Users

100M users

Revenue

$3.1B (2025)