F5- NGINX
F5-NGINX PLUS is an all-in-one load balancer, reverse proxy, web server, content cache, and API gateway.
NGINX Ingress Controller provides Kubernetes traffic management with API gateway, identity, and observability features.
NGINX App Protect provides WAF and DoS Services to protect apps and APIs.
Features
- Load balancing capabilities
- With its built-in caching mechanisms, improve performance
- Enables secure and efficient communication
- Comes with advanced security features
- Provides comprehensive monitoring and logging capabilities
- Leverage additional features like advanced traffic management
- Is designed to handle high traffic volumes
- Flexible and modular configuration system
- WAF and Denial of Service to protect apps and APIs
- Kubernetes traffic management with API gateway, identity, and observability features
Benefits
- High Performance
- Load Balancing
- Enhance security, simplify access control
- Comprehensive monitoring and logging
- Allows administrators to customize the server's behavior
- Integrate with F5 BIG-IP products and leverage additional features
- Offers a cost-effective option
Pricing
£100 an instance
- Education pricing available
- Free trial available
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
6 6 3 6 4 4 7 9 5 1 2 6 5 0 3
Contact
FullProxy Ltd
Chris Templeton / Ewan Ferguson
Telephone: 0141 291 5500
Email: g-cloud@fullproxy.com
Service scope
- Software add-on or extension
- Yes, but can also be used as a standalone service
- What software services is the service an extension to
- Details provided within supplied documentation
- Cloud deployment model
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- Public cloud
- Private cloud
- Community cloud
- Hybrid cloud
- Service constraints
- Details provided within supplied documentation
- System requirements
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- Requirements dependent upon environment in which products are deployed
- See vendor website or documentation for details
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support response times
- Response time SLAs are negotiable with the client
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- None or don’t know
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support
- Yes, at an extra cost
- Web chat support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support accessibility standard
- None or don’t know
- How the web chat support is accessible
- N/A
- Web chat accessibility testing
- N/A
- Onsite support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support levels
- Access to support differs with contract purchased.
- Support available to third parties
- Yes
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
- Pre-sales consultancy Online Training User documentation
- Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
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- HTML
- End-of-contract data extraction
- No user data is retained as part of the service.
- End-of-contract process
- Renewal notice issued 90 days prior to contract end date.
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Supported browsers
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- Internet Explorer 11
- Microsoft Edge
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Safari
- Opera
- Application to install
- No
- Designed for use on mobile devices
- No
- Service interface
- Yes
- User support accessibility
- WCAG 2.1 AAA
- Description of service interface
- F5 NGINX (formerly NGINX, Inc.) primarily uses HTTP and HTTPS as the service interface for communication with clients and backend servers.
- Accessibility standards
- WCAG 2.1 AAA
- Accessibility testing
- N/a
- API
- Yes
- What users can and can't do using the API
- The NGINX API allows administrators to automate configuration management, monitor NGINX performance, and integrate NGINX with other systems and tools.
- API documentation
- Yes
- API documentation formats
- Open API (also known as Swagger)
- API sandbox or test environment
- Yes
- Customisation available
- Yes
- Description of customisation
- Refer to vendor documentation
Scaling
- Independence of resources
- The underlying resources (CPU and Memory) are under the control of the client and can be extended if required. The product is sold based on per instance therefore a client may have to purchase multiple instances if usage goes beyond initially anticipated levels.
Analytics
- Service usage metrics
- No
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Reseller providing extra features and support
- Organisation whose services are being resold
- F5
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Conforms to BS7858:2019
- Government security clearance
- Up to Security Clearance (SC)
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
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- United Kingdom
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- Other locations
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Datacentre security standards
- Managed by a third party
- Penetration testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Penetration testing approach
- Another external penetration testing organisation
- Protecting data at rest
- Encryption of all physical media
- Data sanitisation process
- Yes
- Data sanitisation type
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- Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
- Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
- Equipment disposal approach
- A third-party destruction service
Data importing and exporting
- Data export approach
- Configuration data can be archived in a compressed multi-file archive or single file format and downloaded. The API can also be used to export the config.
- Data export formats
- Other
- Other data export formats
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- Text
- Zip
- Data import formats
- Other
- Other data import formats
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- Text
- Zip
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- Data protection within supplier network
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
- Availability of the deployed service is the responsibility of the customer
- Approach to resilience
- This information can be made available upon request
- Outage reporting
- This information can be made available upon request
Identity and authentication
- User authentication needed
- Yes
- User authentication
- Username or password
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
- Role based access control
- Access restriction testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Management access authentication
- Username or password
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- Users have access to real-time audit information
- How long user audit data is stored for
- User-defined
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- Users have access to real-time audit information
- How long supplier audit data is stored for
- User-defined
- How long system logs are stored for
- User-defined
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- QMS International Ltd
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 30/11/2022
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- N/A
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Cyber essentials plus
- Yes
- Other security certifications
- No
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- Yes
- Security governance standards
- ISO/IEC 27001
- Information security policies and processes
- Security governance policies available upon request
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Supplier-defined controls
- Configuration and change management approach
- F5 can provide documentation on their configuration and change management approach on request.
- Vulnerability management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Vulnerability management approach
- F5 can provide documentation on their Vulnerability Management approach on request.
- Protective monitoring type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Protective monitoring approach
- F5 can provide documentation on their proactive monitoring approach on request.
- Incident management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Incident management approach
- F5 can provide documentation on their Incident Management approach on request.
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Supplier-defined process
Public sector networks
- Connection to public sector networks
- No
Social Value
- Social Value
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Social Value
- Fighting climate change
- Covid-19 recovery
- Tackling economic inequality
- Equal opportunity
- Wellbeing
Fighting climate change
FullProxy's position on Social Values can be provided upon requestCovid-19 recovery
FullProxy's position on Social Values can be provided upon requestTackling economic inequality
FullProxy's position on Social Values can be provided upon requestEqual opportunity
FullProxy's position on Social Values can be provided upon requestWellbeing
FullProxy's position on Social Values can be provided upon request
Pricing
- Price
- £100 an instance
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
- Free trial available
- Yes
- Description of free trial
- A free or trial version/PoC can be requested from FullProxy. More details can be provided upon request.