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.

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Learning Objectives

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.

1
  • Module 1: Setting Up the BIG-IP System

  • Introducing the BIG-IP System
    Initially Setting Up the BIG-IP System
    Archiving the BIG-IP System Configuration
    Leveraging F5 Support Resources and Tools

2
  • Module 2: Traffic Processing with BIG-IP

  • Identifying BIG-IP Traffic Processing Objects
    Overview of Network Packet Flow
    Understanding Profiles
    Overview of Local Traffic Policies
    Visualizing the HTTP Request Flow

3
  • Module 3: Web Application Concepts

  • Overview of Web Application Request Processing
    Web Application Firewall: Layer 7 Protection
    F5 Advanced WAF Layer 7 Security Checks
    Overview of Web Communication Elements
    Overview of the HTTP Request Structure
    Examining HTTP Responses
    How F5 Advanced WAF Parses File Types, URLs, and Parameters
    Using the Fiddler HTTP Proxy

4
  • Module 4: Common Web Application Vulnerabilities

  • A Taxonomy of Attacks: The Threat Landscape
    What Elements of Application Delivery are Targeted?
    Common Exploits Against Web Applications

5
  • Module 5: Security Policy Deployment

  • Defining Learning
    Comparing Positive and Negative Security Models
    The Deployment Workflow
    Policy Type: How Will the Policy Be Applied
    Policy Template: Determines the Level of Protection
    Policy Templates: Automatic or Manual Policy Building
    Assigning Policy to Virtual Server
    Deployment Workflow: Using Advanced Settings
    Selecting the Enforcement Mode
    The Importance of Application Language
    Configure Server Technologies
    Verify Attack Signature Staging
    Viewing Requests
    Security Checks Offered by Rapid Deployment
    Defining Attack Signatures
    Using Data Guard to Check Responses

6
  • Module 6: Policy Tuning and Violations

  • Post-Deployment Traffic Processing
    Defining Violations
    Defining False Positives
    How Violations are Categorized
    Violation Rating: A Threat Scale
    Defining Staging and Enforcement
    Defining Enforcement Mode
    Defining the Enforcement Readiness Period
    Reviewing the Definition of Learning
    Defining Learning Suggestions
    Choosing Automatic or Manual Learning
    Defining the Learn, Alarm and Block Settings
    Interpreting the Enforcement Readiness Summary
    Configuring the Blocking Response Page

7
  • Module 7: Attack Signatures & Threat Campaigns

  • Defining Attack Signatures
    Attack Signature Basics
    Creating User-Defined Attack Signatures
    Defining Simple and Advanced Edit Modes
    Defining Attack Signature Sets
    Defining Attack Signature Pools
    Understanding Attack Signatures and Staging
    Updating Attack Signatures
    Defining Threat Campaigns
    Deploying Threat Campaigns

8
  • Module 8: Positive Security Policy Building

  • Defining and Learning Security Policy Components
    Defining the Wildcard
    Defining the Entity Lifecycle
    Choosing the Learning Scheme
    How to Learn: Never (Wildcard Only)
    How to Learn: Always
    How to Learn: Selective
    Reviewing the Enforcement Readiness Period: Entities
    Viewing Learning Suggestions and Staging Status
    Violations Without Learning Suggestions
    Defining the Learning Score
    Defining Trusted and Untrusted IP Addresses
    How to Learn: Compact

9
  • Module 9: Cookies and Other Headers

  • F5 Advanced WAF Cookies: What to Enforce
    Defining Allowed and Enforced Cookies
    Configuring Security Processing on HTTP headers

10
  • Module 10: Reporting and Logging

  • Overview: Big Picture Data
    Reporting: Build Your Own View
    Reporting: Chart based on filters
    Brute Force and Web Scraping Statistics
    Viewing F5 Advanced WAF Resource Reports
    PCI Compliance: PCI-DSS 3.0
    The Attack Expert System
    Viewing Traffic Learning Graphs
    Local Logging Facilities and Destinations
    How to Enable Local Logging of Security Events
    Viewing Logs in the Configuration Utility
    Exporting Requests
    Logging Profiles: Build What You Need
    Configuring Response Logging

11
  • Module 11: Lab Project 1

  • Lab Project 1

12
  • Module 12: Advanced Parameter Handling

  • Defining Parameter Types
    Defining Static Parameters
    Defining Dynamic Parameters
    Defining Dynamic Parameter Extraction Properties
    Defining Parameter Levels
    Other Parameter Considerations

13
  • Module 13: Automatic Policy Building

  • Overview of Automatic Policy Building
    Defining Templates Which Automate Learning
    Defining Policy Loosening
    Defining Policy Tightening
    Defining Learning Speed: Traffic Sampling
    Defining Track Site Changes

14
  • Lesson 14: Web Application Vulnerability Scanner Integration

  • Integrating Scanner Output
    Importing Vulnerabilities
    Resolving Vulnerabilities
    Using the Generic XML Scanner XSD file

15
  • Lesson 15: Deploying Layered Policies

  • Defining a Parent Policy
    Defining Inheritance
    Parent Policy Deployment Use Cases

16
  • Lesson 16: Login Enforcement and Brute Force Mitigation

  • Defining Login Pages for Flow Control
    Configuring Automatic Detection of Login Pages
    Defining Session Tracking
    Brute Force Protection Configuration
    Source-Based Brute Force Mitigations
    Defining Credentials Stuffing
    Mitigating Credentials Stuffing

17
  • Lesson 17: Reconnaissance with Session Tracking

  • Defining Session Tracking
    Configuring Actions Upon Violation Detection

18
  • Lesson 18: Layer 7 DoS Mitigation

  • Defining Denial of Service Attacks
    Defining the DoS Protection Profile
    Overview of TPS-based DoS Protection
    Creating a DoS Logging Profile
    Applying TPS Mitigations
    Defining Behavioral and Stress-Based Detection

19
  • Lesson 19: Advanced Bot Protection

  • Classifying Clients with the Bot Defense Profile
    Defining Bot Signatures
    Defining Proactive Bot Defense
    Defining Behavioral and Stress-Based Detection
    Defining Behavioral DoS Mitigation

20
  • Lesson 20: Form Encryption using DataSafe

  • Targeting Elements of Application Delivery
    Exploiting the Document Object Model
    Protecting Applications Using DataSafe
    The Order of Operations for URL Classification

21
  • Lesson 21: Review and Final Labs

  • Review and Final Labs

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.

Language

English

Prerequisites

Administering BIG-IP; basic familiarity with HTTP, HTML and XML; basic web application and security concepts.

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