Lesson 1 : Setting Up the BIG-IP System

1. Introducing the BIG-IP System

2. Initially Setting Up the BIG-IP System

3. Archiving the BIG-IP System Configuration

4. Leveraging F5 Support Resources and Tools

Lesson 2 : Traffic Processing with BIG-IP

1. Identifying BIG-IP Traffic Processing Objects

2. Overview of Network Packet Flow

3. Understanding Profiles

4. Overview of Local Traffic Policies and ASM

5. HTTP Request Flow

6. Chapter Resources

Lesson 3 : Web Application Concepts

1. Overview of Web Application Request Processing

2. Web Application Are Vulnerable Even with SSL

3. Layer 7 Protection with Web Application Firewalls

4. Overview of Web Communication Elements

5. Parsing URLs

6. Overview of the HTTP Request Structure

7. Method: Perform Actions on a Server

8. HTTP Methods ASM Accepts by Default

9. Comparing POST with GET

10. Risks Within Other Methods

11. Methods Enforcement for URLs

12. HTTP Response Codes

13. Examining HTTP Responses

14. HTTPUser Input Forms: Free Text Input

15. User Input Forms: Free Text Input

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

17. Using the Fiddler HTTP Proxy

18. Chapter Resources

Lesson 4 : Common Web Application Vulnerabilities

1. Common Exploits Against Web Applications

Lesson 5 : Security Policy Deployment

1. Comparing Positive and Negative Security Models

2. Deployment: Combining Positive and Negative Security

3. The Deployment Workflow

4. Policy Type: How Will the Policy Be Applied

5. Policy Template: Determines the Level of Protection

6. Policy Templates: Automatic or Manual Policy Building

7. Deployment Workflow: Advanced Settings

8. Viewing Requests

9. Security Checks Offered by Rapid Deployment

10. Response Checks Using Data Guard

11. Chapter Resources

Lesson 6 : Policy Tuning and Violations

1. Post-Deployment Traffic Processing

2. Defining Violations

3. Defining False Positives

4. How Violations are Categorized

5. Violation Rating: A Threat Scale

6. Defining Staging and Enforcement

7. Defining Enforcement Mode

8. Defining the Enforcement Readiness Period

9. Defining Learning

10. Defining Learning Suggestions

11. Choosing Automatic or Manual Learning

12. Defining the Learn, Alarm and Block Settings

13. Interpreting the Enforcement Readiness Summary

14. Configuring the Blocking Response Page

15. Chapter Resources

Lesson 7 : Attack Signatures

1. Defining Attack Signatures

2. Creating User-Defined Attack Signatures

3. Defining Attack Signature Sets

4. Defining Attack Signature Pools

5. Updating Attack Signatures

6. Understanding Attack Signatures and Staging

7. Chapter Resources

Lesson 8 : Positive Security Policy Building

1. Defining Security Policy Components

2. Defining the Wildcard

3. The Entity Staging Lifecycle

4. Choosing the Learning Scheme

5. How to Learn: Never (Wildcard Only)

6. How To Learn: Always

7. How to Learn: Selective

8. Reviewing the Enforcement Readiness Period: Entities

9. Violations Without Learning Suggestions

10. Defining the Learning Score

11. Defining Trusted and Untrusted IP Addresses

12. How to Learn: Compact

13. Chapter Resources

Lesson 9 : Cookies and Other Headers

1. ASM Cookies: What to Enforce

2. Defining Allowed and Enforced Cookies

3. Configuring Security Processing on HTTP headers

4. Chapter Resources

Lesson 10 : Reporting and Logging

1. Reporting: Build Your Own View

2. Reporting: Chart based on filters

3. Brute Force and Web Scraping Statistics

4. Viewing ASM Resource Reports

5. PCI Compliance: PCI-DSS 3.0

6. Generating a Security Events Report

7. Viewing Traffic Learning Graphs

8. Local Logging Facilities and Destinations

9. Viewing Logs in the Configuration Utility

10. Logging Profiles: Build What You Need

11. Chapter Resources

Lesson 11 : Lab Project

Lesson 12 : User Roles and Policy Modification

1. Defining User Roles

2. Defining ASM User Roles

3. Defining Partitions

4. Configuring User Partition Access

5. Comparing Security Policies with Policy Diff

6. Merging Security Policies

7. Editing and Exporting Security Policies

8. Restoring with Policy History

9. Examples of ASM Deployment Types

10. ConfigSync and ASM Security Data

11. ASMQKVIEW: Provide to F5 Support for Troubleshooting

12. Chapter Resources

Lesson 13 : Advanced Parameter Handling

1. Defining Parameter Types

2. Defining Static Parameters

3. Defining Dynamic Parameters

4. Defining Dynamic Parameter Extraction Properties

5. Defining Parameter Levels

6. Other Parameter Considerations

7. Chapter Resources

Lesson 14 : Application-Ready Templates

1. Application Templates: Pre-Configured Baseline Security

2. Chapter Resources

Lesson 15 : Automatic Policy Building

1. Overview of Automatic Policy Building

2. Defining Templates Which Automate Learning

3. Defining Policy Loosening

4. Defining Policy Tightening

5. Defining Learning Speed: Traffic Sampling

6. Defining Track Site Changes

7. Chapter Resources

Lesson 16 : Web Application Vulnerability Scanners

1. Integrating Scanner Output Into ASM

2. Will Scan be Used for a New or Existing Policy?

3. Importing Vulnerabilities

4. Resolving Vulnerabilities

5. Using the Generic XML Scanner XSD file

6. Chapter Resources

Lesson 17 : Login Enforcement & Session Tracking

1. Defining a Login URL

2. Login Enforcement: Time and Logout Conditions

3. Defining Session Tracking

4. Configuring Actions Upon Violation Detection

5. Session Hijacking Mitigation

6. Why Fingerprint A Client

7. Chapter Resources

Lesson 18 : Brute Force and Web Scraping Mitigation

1. Defining Anomalies

2. Mitigating Brute Force Attacks via Login Page

3. Defining Session-Based Brute Force Protection

4. Defining Dynamic Brute Force Protection

5. Defining the Prevention Policy

6. Defining Web Scraping

7. Defining Geolocation Enforcement

8. Configuring IP Address Exceptions

9. Chapter Resources

Lesson 19 : Layered Policies

1. Defining a Parent Policy

2. Defining Inheritance

3. Parent Policy Deployment Use Cases

4. Chapter Resources

Lesson 20 : Layer 7 DoS mitigation

1. Defining Denial of Service Attacks

2. Defining DoS Profile General Settings

3. Defining Proactive Bot Defense

4. Using Bot Signatures

5. Defining TPS-based DoS Protection

6. Defining Operation Mode

7. Defining Mitigation Methods

8. Defining Behavioral and Stress-Based Detection

9. Defining Behavioral DoS

10. Chapter Resources

Lesson 21 : ASM and iRules

1. Common Uses for iRules

2. Identifying iRule Components

3. Triggering iRules with Events

4. Defining ASM iRule Events

5. Defining ASM iRule Commands

6. Using ASM iRule Event Modes

7. Chapter Resources

Lesson 22 : Content Profiles

1. Defining Asynchronous JavaScript and XML

2. Defining JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

3. Defining Content Profiles

4. The Order of Operations for URL Classification

5. Chapter Resources

Lesson 23 : Review and Final Labs

1. Course Review Questions

2. Answers to Review Questions

Lesson 24 : Additional Training and Certification

1. Getting Started Series Web-Based Training

2. F5 Instructor Led Training Curriculum

3. F5 Professional Certification Program