NGINX App Protect by F5 is a comprehensive web application firewall (WAF) and denial-of-service (DoS) protection solution designed to safeguard modern applications and APIs from layer 7 attacks. It provides bot protection and threat intelligence services, operating across distributed architectures and hybrid environments. The solution integrates into DevOps environments as a lightweight security component running natively on F5 NGINX Plus and F5 NGINX Ingress Controller, supporting deployment options from edge load balancers to individual pods in Kubernetes clusters.