Configuring F5 Advanced WAF
Technical Training | 02-05 June | Exclusive Networks
Due to the Corona social distancing measures this training will be given
as an interactive online class.
The trainer will contact you personally with practical details.
Date: 02-05/06/2020
Duration: 4 days
Timing: every day from 9am to 5pm
Price: €3245
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.
Target Audience:
This course is intended for security and network administrators who will be responsible for the installation, deployment, tuning, and day-to-day maintenance of the F5 Advanced Web Application Firewall.
Course Objectives
- Describe the role of the BIG-IP system as a full proxy device in an application delivery network
- Provision F5 Advanced Web Application Firewall resources
- 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
- Contrast positive and negative security policy implementation and explain benefits of each
- Configure security processing at the parameter level of a web application
- Use an application template to protect a commercial 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 and session tracking
- Configure protection against brute force, web scraping, and Layer 7 denial of service attacks
- Implement iRules using specific F5 Advanced Web Application Firewall events and commands
- Use Content Profiles to protect JSON and AJAX-based applications
- Implement Bot Signatures
- Implement Proactive Bot Defense
Course Topics
- Resource provisioning for F5 Advanced Web Application Firewall
- Traffic processing with BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
- Web application concepts
- Web application vulnerabilities
- Security policy deployment
- Security policy tuning
- Attack signatures
- Positive security building
- Securing cookies and other headers
- Reporting and logging
- Policy Diff, merging, and exporting
- Advanced parameter handling
- Using application templates
- Using Automatic Policy Builder
- Integrating with web vulnerability scanners
- Login enforcement
- Brute force mitigation
- Session tracking
- Web scraping detection and mitigation
- Geolocation Enforcement and IP Address Exceptions
- Using Parent and Child policies
- Layer 7 DoS protection
- F5 Advanced Web Application Firewall and iRules
- Using Content Profiles for AJAX and JSON applications
- Advanced Bot Detection and Defense
- Proactive Bot Defense
Location
Exclusive Networks bvba
A. Stocletlaan 202
2570 Duffel (Antwerp)
Trainer
This course is given by a certified F5 trainer with several years of experience.
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Exclusive Networks BeLux, A. Stocletlaan 202, 2570 Duffel