Riverbed Stingray Application Firewall

Stingray Application Firewall is a sophisticated, application-aware, web application firewall for deep application security meaning you can protect against known and unknown attacks at the application layer, secure applications, and meet compliance requirements with confidence.


Attacks against web applications are increasing in sophistication, and automation makes them increasingly common. These attacks are geared toward discovering and exploiting weak points, not at the network level, but in the application code and framework itself. However, the target of the attacks remains the same – confidential information.

Stingray Application Firewall is a sophisticated, application-aware Web Application Firewall for deep application security. Now you can protect against known and unknown attacks at the application layer (such as OWASP Top10), secure your application and meet compliance requirements with confidence.

Stingray Application Firewall makes it easy to:
  • Detect and defend against common application vulnerabilities
  • Proactively secure applications
  • Develop sophisticated security policies
  • Monitor and report


Stingray Application Firewall is available as a component of Stingray Traffic Manager, providing a fully-integrated application delivery controller (ADC) and web application firewall system.

Stingray Application Firewall is also available in a uniquely-scalable clustered architecture. Security policies are managed by an administration server and pushed out to a farm of decider processes. Enforcer modules on web and application servers capture traffic bi-directionally and forward to available deciders for validation. Enforcer and decider components may be scaled as required to meet traffic requirements.

Stingray Application Firewall For PCI DSS Compliance

Stingray Application Firewall helps meet the requirements of PCI DSS 6.6, along with other parts of the PCI DSS standard. Section 6.6 of the standard mandates that a merchant must either perform regular security reviews of the source of all public-facing applications or deploy and configure an appropriate web application firewall. Stingray Application Firewall can easily be configured with additional security policies to detect and prevent attacks specific to all applications.