HAProxy Technologies, the company behind the world’s fastest and
most widely used software load balancer and G2 category leader in
API management, container networking, DDoS protection, web
application firewall (WAF), and load balancing, announced at RSA
Conference 2024 the launch of HAProxy Enterprise 2.9 – a milestone
release that defines a new security standard for application
delivery.
The world’s leading companies and cloud providers trust HAProxy
Technologies to protect their applications and APIs. HAProxy
Enterprise 2.9 advances its security solution with next-generation
WAF and bot management capabilities. This release also extends
HAProxy Enterprise’s legendary performance and flexibility to
support real-time applications that use the UDP transport protocol
that powers much of the modern web. Supported by industry-leading
benchmark results, these landmark features offer customers a
powerful solution to security, latency, and scale challenges.
“The application delivery market is poised for disruption, and
we’re eager to play that role,” said Dujko Radovnikovic, CEO,
HAProxy Technologies. “Too often, application teams are forced to
compromise between security, performance, and simplicity. With the
launch of HAProxy Enterprise 2.9, we’re delivering secure
application delivery without compromise. This is the fastest,
simplest, and most secure solution on the market.”
Early Adopters Highlight Incredible Value
Customers who participated in an early adopter preview of
HAProxy Enterprise 2.9 shared their feedback on the new features,
highlighting the value of low-latency security and load balancing
at scale.
"The next-generation HAProxy Enterprise WAF protects our public
APIs and user portal and makes a valuable improvement to our
overall application security posture," said Andro Galinović, Chief
Information Security Officer at Infobip. "Other on-premises
solutions didn't scale well with our global scope and huge API
traffic load, but the new HAProxy Enterprise WAF keeps latency and
resource use low, while having a very low false positive rate.”
“HAProxy Technologies demonstrated great commitment and support
throughout our rigorous vendor selection process, including a
successful proof of concept, functional and non-functional
performance testing, and optimizing security rules for our unique
use case,” said Juraj Ban, Security Architect, Infobip. “The
stability and maturity of the product and the support gives us
confidence in our ability to scale and secure our services."
“The new HAProxy Enterprise UDP Module works efficiently and
quickly to load balance our RADIUS servers with minimal latency
overhead,” said Mikel Cranfill, IT Server Administrator II,
Hendrick Health. “Enabling high availability on our authentication
servers is a great relief to our network team. Additionally, with
HAProxy Fusion Control Plane integrating centralized monitoring
with Grafana, we have experienced a substantial increase in
observability and easier troubleshooting. HAProxy Enterprise has
considerably improved our load balancing infrastructure. Great
customer support (with quick response and thorough resolution),
easy maintenance, and robust security allow us to focus on serving
our customers instead of our load balancers.”
Key Features and Performance of HAProxy Enterprise
2.9
HAProxy Enterprise 2.9 simplifies application delivery, enhances
security, and boosts scalability. Key features include a
next-generation WAF, bot management, and UDP load balancing for
time-sensitive applications.
Web Application Firewall
A web application firewall is crucial for protecting
applications from attacks such as SQL injection, cross-site
scripting (XSS), and remote file inclusion (RFI) that can cause
downtime, data loss, fraud, and more.
The next-generation HAProxy Enterprise WAF powered by the unique
Intelligent WAF Engine brings industry-leading efficacy and
performance, helping customers protect their business and
reputation, simplify security, and reduce the impact on application
performance and user experience. The Intelligent WAF Engine is a
single low-latency process based on the company’s unique data
science, security analytics, and real-world datasets. It identifies
security threats using a non-signature-based detection system
capable of blocking emerging and zero-day threats without requiring
users to create and manage long or complex lists of rules.
HAProxy Enterprise WAF protects application traffic, provides
optional OWASP Core Rule Set compatibility, reduces false
positives, and minimizes latency. In testing based on open source
WAF benchmark data, it scores a balanced accuracy of 98.53%
(compared to the industry average which is below 90%) with latency
below measurable thresholds for the majority of attack payloads.
The OWASP CRS compatibility mode provides an incredibly low false
positive rate of 1.78% at paranoia level 2 (compared with 28.36%
for the ModSecurity WAF at the same paranoia level).
Bot Management
Organizations with websites and web applications must protect
against the effects of malicious bots, which can include DDoS
attacks, ad fraud, content scraping, vulnerability scanning, and
API abuse.
The HAProxy Enterprise Bot Management Module brings fast,
reliable, and flexible management of automated traffic. It empowers
customers to protect their business and reduce the resource cost of
serving requests from unwanted bots.
The HAProxy Enterprise Bot Management Module identifies bot
traffic reliably and with low latency. Detection, processing, and
enforcement are done locally on each HAProxy Enterprise instance,
with no reliance on an external connection. This keeps customers’
data local and secure, enabling compliance with privacy and data
protection regulations.
Flexible integration with HAProxy Enterprise's suite of other
powerful security layers (including the next-generation HAProxy
Enterprise WAF and Global Rate Limiting) allows customers to tailor
their protection and enforcement options based on the context
provided by the HAProxy Enterprise Bot Management Module and the
other security signals available in HAProxy Enterprise.
UDP Proxying and Load Balancing
UDP is a connectionless protocol used for time-sensitive
applications such as DNS lookups, streaming video, playing online
games, and transporting log data. Load balancing is critical to
providing reliable and performant application delivery.
HAProxy Enterprise provides unified load balancing with support
for a broad range of protocols. HAProxy Enterprise 2.9 extends
HAProxy Enterprise’s performance and reliability to UDP
applications (such as those using DNS, NTP, RADIUS, or Syslog).
The HAProxy Enterprise UDP Module provides best-in-class UDP
performance, enabling customers to scale higher, eliminate
performance bottlenecks, reduce resource utilization on servers and
cloud compute, and decrease overall costs.
In a performance benchmark of Syslog throughput with a log line
message size of 1,472 Bytes, a single instance of HAProxy
Enterprise 2.9 processed 3.8 million Syslog messages per second
(46Gb/s) – 4.6X faster than the nearest enterprise competitor. When
sending Syslog messages to log servers with a bandwidth of 40Gb/s,
HAProxy Enterprise 2.9 achieved a very high delivery rate of 99.2%
– 4X more reliable message delivery than the nearest enterprise
competitor. UDP does not perform error correction, so reliable
message delivery is critical to providing high quality of
service.
An Enterprise Platform with Robust Open Source
Foundations
HAProxy Technologies provides the world’s most trusted load
balancing solution, leading G2’s Grid Reports with a Satisfaction
Score of 97. This is a testament to HAProxy Technologies’ powerful
enterprise platform and robust open source foundations.
The release of HAProxy Enterprise 2.9 reinforces HAProxy
Technologies’ position as the industry leader in application
delivery and security. It significantly advances the company’s
flagship enterprise product with even better performance,
flexibility, and security. The enterprise suite, which includes
HAProxy Fusion for centralized management, monitoring, and
automation of the proxy layer, provides a secure application
delivery platform for modern enterprises and applications.
Customers continue to benefit from the combination of HAProxy’s
open source core and robust peer review with HAProxy Technologies’
authoritative support and high-performance modules focused on the
needs of today’s enterprises. HAProxy Enterprise 2.9 incorporates
the features and enhancements previously announced in version 2.9
of the community version, which further extends HAProxy's
performance, flexibility, and observability.
HAProxy Technologies is setting the
new security standard for application delivery. High-performing
teams delivering mission-critical applications and APIs need the
most secure, reliable, and efficient application delivery engine
available. HAProxy Enterprise’s no-compromise approach to secure
application delivery empowers organizations to deliver next-level
enterprise scale and innovation.
See HAProxy Technologies and
HAProxy Enterprise 2.9 at RSA Conference 2024
HAProxy Technologies is a bronze
sponsor at RSA Conference 2024 and is exhibiting at booth #4325.
Attendees can learn more about HAProxy Enterprise 2.9 by joining
the session “Don’t let bots get you down: better bot management for
stronger enterprise security” presented by Nenad Merdanovic,
Principal Solutions Architect and by watching the on-demand session
“Beating the Top 3 Challenges Facing the Critical WAF Security
Layer” presented by Jakub Suchy, Director, Solutions
Engineering.
Upgrade to HAProxy Enterprise 2.9
Existing customers can upgrade to HAProxy Enterprise 2.9 today.
To start the upgrade process, view the upgrade instructions for
HAProxy Enterprise.
Application teams using another load balancer or application
delivery controller can request a free trial that includes all
features of the HAProxy Enterprise suite with no performance
limitations. Our experts will guide users through the trial process
and seamless upgrade to the full license at the end of the trial
period with no traffic interruptions.
About HAProxy Technologies
HAProxy Technologies is the company behind HAProxy, the world’s
fastest and most widely used software load balancer. Rapidly deploy
HAProxy products to deliver websites and applications with the
utmost performance, observability, and security at any scale and in
any environment. HAProxy Technologies is headquartered in Waltham,
MA, with multiple offices across the US and Europe. Learn more at
HAProxy.com.
Media Contact:
Deb Randel, VP MarketingHAProxy Technologies,
LLCdrandel@haproxy.com(614) 204-4643
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