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Wednesday, February 21, 2018

How to Set up F5 Application Connector

Last week we covered the basic overview of Application Connector and this week we’ll look at how to set it up. [The link to the setup guide] Settle in, this is detailed. F5 Application Connector is made up of two components: The Proxy and the Service Center. Step One is to set up the Service […]

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Thursday, February 1, 2018

DevCentral’s Featured Member for February – Lee Sutcliffe

After a brief hiatus for the New Year, we’re kicking off the 2018 Featured Member series with a new DevCentral MVP: MrPlastic, Lee Sutcliffe. Like Kevin this past December, Lee does a great job with the opening question, so we’ll let him tell his story. A long-time DevCentral member and always engaged with the community, […]

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Friday, January 26, 2018

Post of the Week: Two-Factor Auth and SSO with BIG-IP

In this Lightboard Post of the Week, I answer a question about 2FA and SSO with AD/RSA on BIG-IP by creating a SSO Credential Mapping policy agent in the Visual Policy Editor, that takes the username and password from the logon page, and maps them to variables to be used for SSO services. Special thanks […]

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Friday, December 29, 2017

Blog Roll 2017

It’s that time of year when we gift and re-gift, just like this text from last year. And the perfect opportunity to re-post, re-purpose and re-use all my 2017 entries. If you missed any of the 64 attempts including 16 videos, here they are wrapped in one simple entry. I read somewhere that lists in […]

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Thursday, December 28, 2017

The Top 10, Top 10 Predictions for 2018

The time of year when crystal balls get a viewing and many pundits put out their annual predictions for the coming year. Copying off since 2012, rather than thinking up my own, I figured I’d regurgitate what many others expect to happen. Top 10 Cyber Security Predictions for 2018 – Infosec Institute kicks off this […]

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Friday, December 22, 2017

Post of the Week: SSL on a Virtual Server

In this Lightboard Post of the Week, I answer a few questions about SSL/https on Virtual Servers. BIG-IP being a default deny, full proxy device, it’s important to configure specific ports, like 443, to accept https traffic along with client and server side profiles and include your SSL certificates. We cover things like SAN/SNI certificates […]

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Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Lightboard Lessons: What is DDoS?

Over the last quarter, there were approximately 500 DDoS attacks daily around the world with some lasting as long as 300 hours. In this Lightboard Lesson I light up some #basics about DoS and DDoS attacks.   ps Related: DDoS attacks in Q2 2017 DDoS attack – Distributed Denial of Service DDoS Attacks 101: Types, […]

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DevCentral’s Featured Member for November – Nathan Britton

Nathan Britton works as a Principal Security Consultant in the UK for a security solutions provider called NTT Security, part of the NTT Group. They work with customers to design and implement security solutions and his team specializes in application delivery and security in particular. His specific role is focused on solution design and technical […]

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Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Lightboard Lessons: What are Bots?

In this Lightboard Lesson, I light up some #basics about internet bots and botnets. Humans account for less than 50% of internet traffic and the rest is spread between the good bots and bad ones. ps Related: The Facts about Botnets The state of botnets in late 2015 and early 2016 What are bots? Advertisements

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Tuesday, September 5, 2017

DevCentral’s Featured Member for September – Rob Carr

Rob Carr is a Senior Trainer/Professional Services Consultant with Red Education Pty in Australia, covering the Oceania and Asia markets. He has done training and engagements from New Zealand to Taiwan and points in between. About 60% of his time...

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Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Deploy an Auto-Scaled BIG-IP VE WAF in AWS

Today let’s look at how to create and deploy an auto-scaled BIG-IP Virtual Edition Web Application Firewall by using a Cloud Formation Template (CFT) in AWS. CFTs are simply a quick way to spin up solutions that otherwise, you may have to create manually. The idea behind this CFT is it is going to create […]

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Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Lightboard Lessons: BIG-IP ASM Layered Policies

In this Lightboard Lesson, I light up some use cases for BIG-IP ASM Layered Policies available in BIG-IP v13. With Parent and Child policies, you can: Impose mandatory policy elements on multiple policies; Create multiple policies with baseline pro...

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Sunday, June 25, 2017

DevCentral Cloud Month – Week Five

What’s this week about? This is the final week of DevCentral’s Cloud Month so let’s close out strong. Throughout the month Suzanne, Hitesh, Greg, Marty and Lori have taken us on an interesting journey to share their unique cloud expertise. Last week we covered areas like high availability, scalability, responsibility, inter-connectivity and exploring the philosophy […]

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Sunday, June 18, 2017

DevCentral Cloud Month – Week Four

What’s this week about? Ready for another week of Cloud Month on DevCentral? Suzanne, Hitesh, Greg, Marty and Lori are ready! Last week we looked at services, security, automation, migration, Ansible and other areas to focus on once you get your cloud running. We also had a cool Lightboard Lesson explaining BIG-IP in the public […]

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Monday, June 12, 2017

DevCentral Cloud Month – Week Three

What’s this week about? We hope you’re enjoying DevCentral’s Month thus far and Suzanne, Hitesh, Greg, Marty and Lori ready to go again this week. Last week we got you deployed in AWS and Kubernetes, learned the basics of Azure, got knee-deep in Cloud/Automated architectures and celebrated SOA’s survival. Now that your cloud is installed […]

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Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Deploying F5’s Web Application Firewall in Microsoft Azure Security Center

Use F5’s Web Application Firewall (WAF) to protect web applications deployed in Microsoft Azure. Applications living in the Cloud still need protection. Data breaches, compromised credentials, system vulnerabilities, DDoS attacks and shared resources can all pose a threat to your cloud infrastructure. The Verizon DBIR notes that web application attacks are the most likely vector […]

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Tuesday, May 2, 2017

DevCentral’s Featured Member for May – NTT Security’s Leonardo Souza

Leonardo Souza lives in the United Kingdom, with his partner, 5-year-old daughter, and a (very) recently newborn son. He’s Brazilian and lived in Portugal for quite a while. He then moved to UK about 5 years ago ‘because of the amazing weather,’ he jokes. Leonardo started to work with computers when he was 18 years […]

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Tuesday, March 7, 2017

What is Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

What is VDI? Imagine not having to carry around a laptop or be sitting in a cubicle to access your work desktop applications. Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is appealing to many different constituencies because it combines the benefits of anywhere access with desktop support improvements. Employees typically use a wide range of mobile devices from […]

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Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Shared Authentication Domains on BIG-IP APM

How to share an APM session across multiple access profiles. A common question for someone new to BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) is how do I configure BIG-IP APM so the user only logs in once. By default, BIG-IP APM requires authentication for each access profile. This can easily be changed by sending the domain […]

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Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Lightboard Lessons: IoT on BIG-IP

As more organizations deploy IoT applications in their data centers and clouds, they’re going to need their ADC to understand the unique protocols these devices use to communicate. In this Lightboard Lesson, I light up how IoT protocol MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) works on BIG-IP v13. iRules allow you to do Topic based load […]

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