This course provides a complete functional understanding of the BIG-IP system and BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) as commonly deployed in modern application delivery networks. It is ideal for professionals responsible for installing, configuring, and operating BIG-IP environments.
F5 Configuring Advanced WAF
In this 4-day course, students are provided with a functional understanding of how to deploy, tune, and operate F5 Advanced Web Application Firewall to protect their web applications from HTTP-based attacks
Course Duration
4 Days
Target Audience
This course is intended for SecOps personnel responsible for the deployment, tuning, and day-to-day maintenance of F5 Adv. WAF. Participants will obtain a functional level of expertise with F5 Advanced WAF, including comprehensive security policy and profile configuration, client assessment, and appropriate mitigation types. Experience with LTM is not required. Prior WAF knowledge is not required. This course is on the list of approved study resources for the F5 ASM 303 certification exam.
Course Overview
In this 4-day course, students are provided with a functional understanding of how to deploy, tune, and operate F5 Advanced Web Application Firewall to protect their web applications from HTTP-based attacks.
The course includes lecture, hands-on labs, and discussion about different F5 Advanced Web Application Firewall tools for detecting and mitigating threats from multiple attack vectors such web scraping, Layer 7 Denial of Service, brute force, bots, code injection, and zero day exploits.
Key Learning Objectives
- Describe the role of the BIG-IP system as a full proxy device in an application delivery network
- Provision the F5 Advanced Web Application Firewall
- Define a web application firewall
- Describe how F5 Advanced Web Application Firewall protects a web application by securing file types, URLs, and parameters
- Deploy F5 Advanced Web Application Firewall using the Rapid Deployment template (and other templates) and define the security checks included in each
- Define learn, alarm, and block settings as they pertain to configuring F5 Advanced Web Application Firewall
- Define attack signatures and explain why attack signature staging is important
- Deploy Threat Campaigns to secure against CVE threats
- Contrast positive and negative security policy implementation and explain benefits of each
- Configure security processing at the parameter level of a web application
- Deploy F5 Advanced Web Application Firewall using the Automatic Policy Builder
- Tune a policy manually or allow automatic policy building
- Integrate third party application vulnerability scanner output into a security policy
- Configure login enforcement for flow control
- Mitigate credential stuffing
- Configure protection against brute force attacks
- Deploy Advanced Bot Defense against web scrapers, all known bots, and other automated agents
- Deploy DataSafe to secure client-side data
F5 Configuring Advanced WAF
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F5 Administering BIG-IP & Configuring BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager
- Course Code: LTM
- Delivery Mode:Â ILT, VILT
- Technology:Â BIG-IP, LTM
F5 Troubleshooting BIG-IP
- Course Code: TS
- Delivery Mode:Â ILT, VILT
- Technology:Â BIG-IP, Troubleshooting
This course gives networking professionals hands-on knowledge of how to troubleshoot a BIG-IP system using a number of troubleshooting techniques as well as troubleshooting and system tools.
F5 Developing iRules for BIG-IP
- Course Code: iRules
- Delivery Mode:Â ILT, VILT
- Technology:Â BIG-IP, iRules
This course provides networking professionals a functional understanding of iRules development. The course builds on the foundation of the Administering BIG-IP or Configuring LTM course, demonstrating how to logically plan and write iRules to help monitor and manage common tasks involved with processing traffic on the BIG-IP system.
F5 Configuring BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager
- Course Code: LTM
- Delivery Mode:Â ILT, VILT
- Technology:Â BIG-IP, LTM
This course gives network professionals a functional understanding of BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager, introducing students to both commonly used and advanced BIG-IP LTM features and functionality.
F5 Configuring BIG-IP DNS
- Course Code: DNS
- Delivery Mode:Â ILT, VILT
- Technology:Â BIG-IP DNS
This course gives networking professionals a functional understanding of the BIG-IP DNS system as it is commonly used. The course covers installation, configuration, and management of the BIG-IP DNS system, and includes a combination of lecture, discussion, and hands-on labs.
F5 Configuring BIG-IP AFM
- Course Code: AFM
- Delivery Mode:Â ILT, VILT
- Technology:Â AFM, BIG-IP
This course uses lectures and hands-on exercises to give students real-time experience in setting up and configuring the BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) system.
