Lesson 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

Lesson 2 : Traffic Processing with BIG-IP

• Identifying BIG-IP Traffic Processing Objects
• Overview of Network Packet Flow
• Understanding Profiles
• Overview of Local Traffic Policies and ASM
• HTTP Request Flow
• Chapter Resources

Lesson 3 : Web Application Concepts

• Overview of Web Application Request Processing
• Web Application are Vulnerable Even with SSL
• Layer 7 Protection with Web Application Firewalls
• Overview of Web Communication Elements
• Parsing URLs
• Overview of the HTTP Request Structure

Method: Perform Actions on a Server

• HTTP Methods ASM Accepts by Default
• Comparing POST with GET
• Risks Within Other Methods
• Methods Enforcement for URLs
• HTTP Response Codes
• Examining HTTP Responses
• HTTP User Input Forms: Free Text Input
• User Input Forms: Free Text Input
• How ASM Parses File Types, URLs, and Parameters
• Using the Fiddler HTTP Proxy
• Chapter Resources

Lesson 4 : Common Web Application Vulnerabilities

• Common Exploits Against Web Applications

Lesson 5 : Security Policy Deployment

• Deployment: Combining Positive and Negative Security
• 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
• Deployment Workflow: Advanced Settings
• Viewing Requests
• Security Checks Offered by Rapid Deployment
• Response Checks Using Data Guard
• Chapter Resources

Lesson 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
• Defining 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
• Chapter Resources

Lesson 7 : Attack Signatures

• Defining Attack Signatures
• Creating User-Defined Attack Signatures
• Defining Attack Signature Sets
• Defining Attack Signature Pools
• Updating Attack Signatures
• Understanding Attack Signatures and Staging
• Chapter Resources

Lesson 8 : Positive Security Policy Building

• Defining Security Policy Components
• Defining the Wildcard
• The Entity Staging 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
• Violations Without Learning Suggestions
• Defining the Learning Score
• Defining Trusted and Untrusted IP Addresses

How to Learn: Compact

Chapter Resources

Lesson 9 : Cookies and Other Headers

• ASM Cookies: What to Enforce
• Defining Allowed and Enforced Cookies
• Configuring Security Processing on HTTP headers
• Chapter Resources

Lesson 10 : Reporting and Logging

Reporting: Build Your Own View Reporting: Chart Based on Filters Brute Force and Web Scraping Statistics Viewing ASM Resource Reports PCI Compliance: PCI-DSS 3.0 Generating a Security Events Report Viewing Traffic Learning Graphs Local Logging Facilities and Destinations Viewing Logs in the Configuration Utility Logging Profiles: Build What You Need Chapter Resources

Lesson 11 : Lab Project

Lesson 12 : User Roles and Policy Modification

• Defining User Roles
• Defining ASM User Roles
• Defining Partitions
• Configuring User Partition Access
• Comparing Security Policies with Policy Diff
• Merging Security Policies
• Editing and Exporting Security Policies
• Restoring with Policy History
• Examples of ASM Deployment Types
• ConfigSync and ASM Security Data
• ASMQKVIEW: Provide to F5 Support for Troubleshooting Chapter Resources

Lesson 13 : Advanced Parameter Handling

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

Lesson 14 : Application-Ready Templates

• Application Templates: Pre-Configured Baseline Security
• Chapter Resources

Lesson 15 : 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
• Chapter Resources

Lesson 16 : Web Application Vulnerability Scanners

• Integrating Scanner Output Into ASM
• Will Scan be Used for a New or Existing Policy?
• Importing Vulnerabilities
• Resolving Vulnerabilities
• Using the Generic XML Scanner XSD File
• Chapter Resources

Lesson 17 : Login Enforcement & Session Tracking

• Defining a Login URL
• Login Enforcement: Time and Logout Conditions
• Defining Session Tracking
• Configuring Actions Upon Violation Detection
• Session Hijacking Mitigation
• Why Fingerprint a Client
• Chapter Resources

Lesson 18 : Brute Force and Web Scraping Mitigation

• Defining Anomalies
• Mitigating Brute Force Attacks via Login Page
• Defining Session-Based Brute Force Protection
• Defining Dynamic Brute Force Protection
• Defining the Prevention Policy
• Defining Web Scraping
• Defining Geolocation Enforcement
• Configuring IP Address Exceptions
• Chapter Resources

Lesson 19 : Layered Policies

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

Lesson 20 : Layer 7 DoS mitigation

• Defining Denial of Service Attacks
• Defining DoS Profile General Settings
• Defining Proactive Bot Defense
• Using Bot Signatures
• Defining TPS-based DoS Protection
• Defining Operation Mode
• Defining Mitigation Methods
• Defining Behavioral and Stress-Based Detection
• Defining Behavioral DoS
• Chapter Resources

Lesson 21 : ASM and iRules

• Common Uses for iRules
• Identifying iRule Components
• Triggering iRules with Events
• Defining ASM iRule Events
• Defining ASM iRule Commands
• Using ASM iRule Event Modes
• Chapter Resources

Lesson 22 : Content Profiles

• Defining Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
• Defining JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
• Defining Content Profiles
• The Order of Operations for URL Classification
• Chapter Resources

Lesson 23 : Review and Final Labs