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Configuring F5 Advanced WAF (previously licensed as ASM) v14.1

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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.<br><br>The course includes lecture, hands-on labs, and discussion about different F5 Advanced Web Application Firewall tools for detecting and...

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Last updated : 23/07/2026
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Duration:

32.00 hours

26.0 CPD hours

Overview:

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.

Description:

- Resource provisioning for F5 Advanced Web Application Firewall
- Traffic processing with BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
- Web application concepts
- Mitigating the OWASP Top 10 and other vulnerabilities
- Security policy deployment
- Security policy tuning
- Deploying Attack Signatures and Threat Campaigns
- Positive security building
- Securing cookies and other headers
- Reporting and logging
- Advanced parameter handling
- Using Automatic Policy Builder
- Integrating with web vulnerability scanners
- Login enforcement for flow control
- Brute force and credential stuffing mitigation
- Session tracking for client reconnaissance
- Using Parent and Child policies
- Layer 7 DoS protection
- Transaction Per Second-based DoS protection
- Layer 7 Behavioral DoS Protection
- Configuring Advanced Bot Defense
- Web Scraping and other Microservice Protection
- Working with Bot Signatures
- Using DataSafe to Secure the client side of the Document Object Model
- Certification
- 303 ASM Specialist

Course Outline:

Chapter 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
Chapter 2: Traffic Processing with BIG-IP

- Identifying BIG-IP Traffic Processing Objects
- Understanding Profiles
- Overview of Local Traffic Policies
- Visualizing the HTTP Request Flow
Chapter 3: Web Application Concepts

- Overview of Web Application Request Processing
- Web Application Firewall: Layer 7 Protection
- 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
Chapter 4: Web Application Vulnerabilities

- A Taxonomy of Attacks: The Threat Landscape
- Common Exploits Against Web Applications
Chapter 5: Security Policy Deployment

- Defining Learning
- Comparing Positive and Negative Security Models
- The Deployment Workflow
- Assigning Policy to Virtual Server
- Deployment Workflow: Using Advanced Settings
- Configure Server Technologies
- Defining Attack Signatures
- Viewing Requests
- Security Checks Offered by Rapid Deployment
- Defining Attack Signatures
Chapter 6: Policy Tuning and Violations

- Post-Deployment Traffic Processing
- 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
Chapter 7: Attack Signatures and 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
Chapter 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
- Defining the Learning Score
- Defining Trusted and Untrusted IP Addresses
- How to Learn: Compact
Chapter 9: Securing Cookies and Other Headers

- The Purpose of F5 Advanced WAF Cookies
- Defining Allowed and Enforced Cookies
- Securing HTTP headers
Chapter 10: Visual Reporting and Logging

- Viewing Application Security Summary Data
- Reporting: Build Your Own View
- Reporting: Chart based on filters
- Brute Force and Web Scraping Statistics
- Viewing Resource Reports
- PCI Compliance: PCI-DSS 3.0
- Analyzing Requests
- Local Logging Facilities and Destinations
- Viewing Logs in the Configuration Utility
- Defining the Logging Profile
- Configuring Response Logging
Chapter 11: Lab Project 1

Chapter 12: Advanced Parameter Handling

- Defining Parameter Types
- Defining Static Parameters
- Defining Dynamic Parameters
- Defining Parameter Levels
- Other Parameter Considerations
Chapter 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
Chapter 14: Web Application Vulnerability Scanner Integration

- Integrating Scanner Output
- Importing Vulnerabilities
- Resolving Vulnerabilities
- Using the Generic XML Scanner XSD file
Chapter 15: Deploying Layered Policies

- Defining a Parent Policy
- Defining Inheritance
- Parent Policy Deployment Use Cases
Chapter 16: Login Enforcement and Brute Force Mitigation

- Defining Login Pages for Flow Control
- Configuring Automatic Detection of Login Pages
- Defining Brute Force Attacks
- Brute Force Protection Configuration
- Source-Based Brute Force Mitigations
- Defining Credential Stuffing
- Mitigating Credential Stuffing
Chapter 17: Reconnaissance with Session Tracking

- Defining Session Tracking
- Configuring Actions Upon Violation Detection
Chapter 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
Chapter 19: Advanced Bot Defense

- Classifying Clients with the Bot Defense Profile
- Defining Bot Signatures
- Defining F5 Fingerprinting
- Defining Bot Defense Profile Templates
- Defining Microservices protection
Chapter 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
Chapter 21: Review and Final Labs

- Final Lab Project (Option 1) – Production Scenario
- Final Lab Project (Option 2) – Managing Traffic with Layer 7 Local Traffic Policies

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