Setting up BIG-IP System

1. Introducing the BIG-IP System

2. Initially Setting Up the BIG-IP System

3. Archiving the BIG-IP Configuration

4. F5 Support Resources and Tools

Traffic Processing with BIG-IP

1. Identifying BIG-IP Traffic Processing Objects

2. Understanding Network Packet Flow

3. Understanding Profiles

4. Overview of Local Traffic Policies and ASM

Web Application Concepts

1. Anatomy of a web application

2. An Overview of Common Security Methods

3. Examining HTTP and Web Application Components

4. Examining HTTP Headers

5. Examining HTTP Responses

6. Examining HTML Components

7. How ASM Parses File Types, URLs, and Parameters

8. Using the Fiddler HTTP proxy tool

Web Application Vulnerabilities

1. OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities

Security Policy Deployment

1. Comparing Positive and Negative Security

2. Using the Deployment Wizard

3. Deployment Wizard: Local Traffic Deployment

4. Deployment Wizard: Workflow

5. Reviewing Requests

6. Security Checks offered by Rapid Deployment

7. Configuring Data Guard

Policy Tuning and Violations

1. Post-Configuration Traffic Processing

2. Defining False Positives

3. How Violations are Categorized

4. Violation Ratings

5. Enforcement Settings and Staging: Policy Control

6. Defining Signature Staging

7. Defining Enforcement Readiness Period

8. Defining Learning

9. Violations and Learning Suggestions

10. Learning Mode: Automatic or Manual

11. Defining Learn, Alarm and Block settings

12. Interpreting Enforcement Readiness Summary

13. Configuring the Blocking Response Page

Attack Signatures

1. Defining Attack Signatures

2. Creating User-Defined Attack Signatures

3. Attack Signature Normalization

4. Attack Signature Structure

5. Defining Attack Signature Sets

6. Defining Attack Signature Pools

7. Updating Attack Signatures

8. Understanding Attack Signatures and Staging

Positive Security Policy Building

1. Defining Security Policy Components

2. Choosing an Explicit Entities Learning Scheme

3. How to learn: Add All Entities

4. Staging and Entities: The Entity Lifecycle

5. How to Learn: Never (Wildcard Only)

6. How to Learn: Selective

7. Learning Differentiation: Real Threats vs. False positives

Cookies and Other Headers

1. ASM Cookies: What to Enforce

2. Understanding Allowed and Enforced Cookies

3. Configuring Security Processing on HTTP Headers

Reporting and Logging

1. Reporting Capabilities in ASM

2. Viewing DoS Reports

3. Generating an ASM Security Events Report

4. Viewing Log files and Local Facilities

5. Understanding Logging Profile

User Roles and Policy Modification

1. Understanding User Roles and Partitions

2. Comparing Policies

3. Editing and Exporting Security Policies

4. Examples of ASM Deployment Types

5. Overview of ASM Synchronization

6. Collecting Diagnostic Data with asmqkview

Lab Project

1. Lab Project 1

Advanced Parameter Handling

1. Defining Parameters

2. Defining Static Parameters

3. Understanding Dynamic Parameters and Extractions

4. Defining Parameter Levels

5. Understanding Attack Signatures and Parameters

Application-Ready Templates

1. Application Template Overview

Automatic Policy Building

1. Overview of Automatic Policy Building

2. Choosing a Policy Type

3. Defining Policy Building Process Rules

4. Defining the Learning Score

Web Application Vulnerability Scanners

1. Integrating ASM with Vulnerability Scanners

2. Importing Vulnerabilities

3. Resolving Vulnerabilities

4. Using the Generic XML Scanner Output

Login Enforcement & Session Tracking

1. Defining a Login URL

2. Defining Session Awareness and User Tracking

Brute force and Web Scraping Mitigation

1. Defining Anomalies

2. Mitigating Brute Force Attacks

3. Defining Session-Based Brute Force Protection

4. Defining Dynamic Brute Force Protection

5. Defining the Prevention Policy

6. Mitigating Web Scraping

7. Defining Geolocation Enforcement

8. Configuring IP Address Exceptions

Layer 7 DoS Mitigation

1. Defining Denial of Service Attacks

2. Defining General Settings L7 DoS Profile

3. Defining TPS-Based DoS Protection

4. Defining Operation Mode

5. Defining Mitigation Methods

6. Defining Stress-Based Detection

7. Defining Proactive Bot Defense

8. Using Bot Signatures

ASM and iRules

1. Defining Application Security iRule Events

2. Using ASM iRule Event Modes

3. iRule Syntax

4. ASM iRule Commands

XML and Web Services

1. Defining XML

2. Defining Web Services

3. Configuring an XML Profile

4. Schema and WSDL Configuration

5. XML Attack Signatures

6. Using Web Services Security

Web 2.0 Support: JSON Profiles

1. Defining Asynchronous JavaScript and XML

2. Defining JavaScript Object Notation

3. Configuring a JSON Profile

Review and Final Labs

Additional Training and Certification

1. Getting Started Series Web-Based Training

2. F5 Instructor Led Training Curriculum

3. F5 Professional Certification Program