F5 application strategy status report in 2022: edge deployment and load security become the focus of attention in the Asia Pacific Region

【TechWeb】6 month 23 Daily news , In the near future ,F5 Released for IT Annual survey report of decision makers 《2022 Annual application strategy status report 》, It reveals several cutting-edge trends in the field of application security and delivery , It also interprets the challenges and technologies that enterprises are facing .

Respondents from the Asia Pacific region are “ The most exciting technology ” This choice will be related to security technologies . Survey results show that , The mainland of China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, etc Web The application and API protective （WAAP） Showing a higher interest .

last year ,48% Our enterprises pay more attention to vulnerability management and automation . Other key strategies include cloud security 、 Strengthen staff training and integrate safety manufacturers . future , Most enterprises will need to integrate the above strategies to effectively manage the risk of security vulnerabilities .

Worldwide , More than four fifths of the respondents （84%） Plan to deploy the workload to the edge , To enhance the employee and customer experience . Compared with the results of last year's survey , The edge deployment in the Asia Pacific region is showing an overall growth trend .

According to the report , Among the many available application security and delivery technologies , Identity and access management technologies are now the most common , by  96%  Deployed by the enterprise . This change is surprising , Because the previous enterprises preferred availability technologies such as load balancing  SSL VPN  And firewall .

According to the analysis of the report, identity and access management technologies are highly sought after , To some extent, it reflects the popularity of zero trust security and the sharp increase in the number of remote office workers in the past two years , But it is mostly due to the microservices that can access the application at present 、 Script 、 sensor 、 The number of workloads surged . In the context of application and its supporting technology ,“ user ” The definition of has gone far beyond equipment （ Even mobile devices ） The user's concept . therefore , Most or all security solutions are moving towards identity based management , For the user （ Unlikely to be an employee , And more likely  API、 Service or machine ） Do security authorization .

Besides , The whole traditional security service is second only to identity service , Is the second most commonly deployed technology , Availability technology ranks third .90% Of enterprises have deployed the above three services , have other 85% Of enterprises have deployed application delivery technology , Designed to improve performance .