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The BIG-IP full proxy architecture has full visibility from the client to the server and from the server to the client. What security benefit does this provide to customers?
The correct answer is D. Provides industry-leading knowledge of application behavior as it travels through a network, and it. The BIG-IP full proxy architecture terminates both the client and server connections independently, giving it complete bidirectional visibility into all application traffic flowing through the system.
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The BIG-IP full proxy architecture has full visibility from the client to the server and from the server to the client. What security benefit does this provide to customers?
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- AOffloads security functionality from other devices such as network firewalls and Intrusion
- Bprovides enhanced support for DNS servers.
- CEstablishes highly detailed policies based on your customer's business in requirements, performs
- DProvides industry-leading knowledge of application behavior as it travels through a network, and it
How the community answered
(20 responses)- A5% (1)
- D95% (19)
Why each option
The BIG-IP full proxy architecture terminates both the client and server connections independently, giving it complete bidirectional visibility into all application traffic flowing through the system.
Offloading security functions from network firewalls is a general deployment benefit of BIG-IP, but it does not specifically describe the security advantage derived from the full proxy architecture's bidirectional traffic visibility.
Enhanced DNS server support is a capability of BIG-IP DNS products and is unrelated to the security benefit of the full proxy architecture's deep application inspection.
Enforcing detailed business-driven policies is an outcome enabled by proxy visibility, but choice C describes a policy management capability rather than the underlying security benefit the full proxy architecture itself provides.
Because BIG-IP acts as a full proxy - terminating the client connection and initiating a separate server-side connection - it can deeply inspect, parse, and understand application traffic in both directions. This comprehensive visibility provides industry-leading awareness of normal versus anomalous application behavior as traffic traverses the network. That behavioral knowledge enables BIG-IP to detect threats, enforce granular security policies, and respond to attacks that pass-through or stateful inspection devices cannot identify.
Concept tested: BIG-IP full proxy architecture security visibility benefit
Source: https://www.f5.com/services/resources/white-papers/big-ip-full-proxy-architecture
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