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 Network Packet Flow
• Understanding Profiles
• Overview of Local Traffic Policies and ASM

Chapter 3: Web Application Concepts

• Overview of Web Application Request Processing
• Web Application are vulnerable even with SSL
• Layer 7 Protection with Web Application Firewalls
• Examining HTTP and Web Application Components
• Overview of Web Communication Elements
• Parsing URLs
• Overview of the HTTP Request Structure
• HTTP Methods ASM Accepts by Default
• Comparing POST with GET
• Risks Within Other Methods
• HTTP Request Components: Headers
• Examining HTTP Responses
• User Input Forms: Free Text Input
• How ASM Parses File Types, URLs, and Parameters
• Using the Fiddler HTTP Proxy Tool

Chapter 4: Common Web Application Vulnerabilities

• Common Exploits Against Web Applications

Chapter 5: Security Policy Deployment

• Comparing Positive and Negative Security Models
• Approaching Deployment: Positive or Negative Security?
• The Deployment Wizard: How will Policy Builder Be Used?
• The Deployment Wizard Workflow
• Reviewing Requests
• Security Checks Offered by Rapid Deployment
• Response Checks Using Data Guard

Chapter 6: Policy Tuning and Violations

• Post-Configuration Traffic Processing
• Defining False Positives
• How Violations are Categorized
• Violation Rating: A Threat Scale
• Enforcement Settings & Staging: Global Policy Control
• Defining Signature Staging
• Defining the Enforcement Readiness Period
• Defining Learning
• Violations and Learning Suggestions
• Defining Learning Suggestions
• Choosing a Learning Mode: Automatic or Manual
• Defining the Learn, Alarm and Block settings
• Interpreting the Enforcement Readiness Summary
• Configuring the Blocking Response Page

Chapter 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 8: Positive Security Policy Building

• Defining Security Policy Components
• Choosing the Learning Scheme
• How To Learn: Add All Entities
• Staging and Entities: The Entity Lifecycle
• How to Learn: Never (Wildcard Only)
• How to Learn: Selective
• Learning Differentiation: Real Threats or False Positives

Chapter 9: Cookies and Other Headers

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

Chapter 10: Reporting and Logging

• Reporting: Build Your Own View
• Brute Force and Web Scraping Statistics
• PCI Compliance: PCI-DSS 3.0
• Viewing DoS Reports
• Generating a Security Events Report
• Local Logging Facilities and Destinations
• Viewing Current Log Files via Configuration Utility
• Logging Profile: Build What You Need

Chapter 11: User Roles and Policy Modification

• Defining User Roles
• Allowed Object References across Partitions
• Partitions Facilitate Administrative Agility
• Comparing Security Policies
• 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 12: Lab Project 1

Chapter 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 14: Application-Ready Templates

• Templates: Pre-Configured Baseline Security

Chapter 15: Automatic Policy Building

• Overview of Automatic Policy Building
• Choosing a Policy Type
• Defining Trusted and Untrusted IP Addresses
• Defining the Learning Score

Chapter 16: Web Application Vulnerability Scanners

• Integrating ASM with Vulnerability Scanners
• Will Scan be Used for a New or Existing Policy?
• Importing vulnerabilities
• Resolving Vulnerabilities
• Using the Generic XML Scanner XSD file

Chapter 17: Login Enforcement & Session Tracking

• Defining a Login URL
• Defining Session Tracking
• Configuring Violation Detection Actions
• Session Hijacking Mitigation
• Fingerprinting Overview

Chapter 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
• Mitigating Web Scraping
• Defining Geolocation Enforcement
• Configuring IP Address Exceptions

Chapter 19: Layer 7 DoS mitigation

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

Chapter 20: ASM and iRules

• Identifying iRule Components
• Defining ASM iRule Commands
• Triggering iRules with Events
• Defining ASM iRule Events
• Using ASM iRule Event Modes

Chapter 21: XML and Web Services

• Defining XML
• Defining Web Services
• Using Web Services Security
• Defining the XML Profile
• XML Attack Signatures

Chapter 22: Web 2.0 Support: JSON Profiles

• Defining Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
• Defining JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
• Configuring a JSON profile

Chapter 23: Review and Final Labs

Chapter 24: Additional Training and Certification

• Getting Started Series Web-Based Training
• F5 Instructor Led Training Curriculum
• F5 Professional Certification Program

Appendix A (Helpful Hints)

Appendix B (Rapid Deployment Methodology)

Appendix C (Additional Topics)

Appendix D (L1 and L2 Support Checklist)