Forum Discussion

jack_10574's avatar
jack_10574
Icon for Nimbostratus rankNimbostratus
Feb 23, 2017

Can ASM use for protect non http applications.

Hi All

 

recently I am doing a F5 ASM project. The customer are asking can he enable ASM on application not belong to HTTP web server and get benefit from ASM.

 

As I understand ASM are used to protect web application and not for non http applications.

 

Can anyone provide me a very strong point to convince customer , why we should NOT use ASM to protect non-http application.

 

Your comment are really appreciate.

 

application delivery
ASM Advanced WAF
security

1 Reply

Sort By
  • boneyard's avatar
    boneyard
    Icon for MVP rankMVP
    Feb 23, 2017

    simply because it isn't meant for that. ASM is a WEB application firewall. it doesn't do anything useful for non WEB / HTTP traffic, you can't look at URI, filetypes, ... it won't do anything, you won't see any useful results.

     

    if the customer already didn't understand that the first time you explained it then i wonder how it will go the second time :)