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Start: 2023-06-01T18:00:00Z
End: 2023-06-01T18:00:06.000Z
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F5 is a multicloud application security and delivery company committed to bringing a better digital world to life. F5 partners with the world’s largest, most advanced organizations to secure every app—on premises, in the cloud, or at the edge. F5 enables businesses to continuously stay ahead of threats while delivering exceptional, secure digital experiences for their customers. For more information, go to f5.com. 



Join our knowledgeable presenters, Gee Chow, Solutions Architect at F5, and Sundar Tiwari, Sr. Product Manager at F5, for a session that promises to empower your Azure experience with NGINX Plus.

NGINX as a Service is a fully hosted offering that is tightly integrated into the Azure ecosystem, making applications fast, efficient, and reliable with full lifecycle management of advanced NGINX traffic services.

NGINXaaS for Azure, powered by NGINX Plus, eliminates the need to deploy and manage individual instances or clusters of NGINX, and removes the operational burden of managing machines and images.  Unlocking all NGINX Plus use cases of API Gateway, load balancer, programmable ADC, and cache managed through various Azure management tools (portal, CLI, SDK, ARM, and Terraform). And NGINXaaS for Azure can scale to meet your business, technical, or security requirements as they develop.

In this in-depth session, our experts will cover:

-  Seamless Integration with the Azure Ecosystem: Discover how NGINX Plus -  integrates with essential Azure services such as Key Vault, Monitor, and Log -  Analytics, enhancing security and monitoring capabilities.
-  Smooth Migration Path: Learn the steps to transition your existing NGINX configurations to NGINX as a Service for Azure without hassle.
-  Continuous Innovation and Reliability: Understand how NGINXaaS for Azure ensures your instances remain cutting-edge and robust with automatic updates and built-in failover and service resiliency.
-  Cost-Effective Strategies: Leverage your Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC) to make the most of NGINX as a Service for Azure.

Deploy NGINX on Azure faster than you can say 'NGINXaaS for Azure'

Embark on a journey to fortify your API defenses as we delve into the realm of shadow APIs—a silent threat to the digital ecosystem. With the surge in AI-powered applications, the reliance on APIs has skyrocketed, bringing API security to the forefront of cybersecurity challenges.

In this action-packed webinar, we'll unravel the complexities of the API landscape and shed light on the unseen risks that shadow APIs pose. Security can't be an afterthought; it's time to 'Shift Left' and embed security into the very fabric of your development process.

Shift Left Approach: What Threats are Hiding in your APIs

How can you meet your current virtualization needs while you prepare for a future that includes containerized applications and workloads?

Join us for an insightful webinar where we explore the strategic shift in the virtualization landscape. As organizations navigate the uncertainty and seek reliable alternatives, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization emerges as a robust solution, offering a unified platform for container and virtualized workloads.

A challenge for most enterprises is that many mission-critical applications require uptime and security during the migration process.

In this session, you'll learn:

-  The advantages of migrating VMs to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.
-  Practical insights on achieving a secure and streamlined migration.
-  How F5 solutions enhance the security and efficiency of your migration efforts.

Whether you are actively seeking a migration path or simply weighing your virtualization options, this webinar will equip you with the knowledge to make informed decisions and the strategies to execute them effectively. Don't miss the opportunity to the evolving virtualization landscape.

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Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Migration & Security with F5

Join F5 for a webinar with guest speakers from Forrester, Principal Analyst Andre Kindness, and Consultant Courtenay O'Connor, as they unpack their findings and discover how they applied advanced modeling techniques and market considerations to determine the return-on-investment customers can achieve with F5 Distributed Cloud Services. 

Don’t miss this opportunity to equip your organization with the knowledge to make informed decisions on cloud services investment and to optimize your economic outcomes with F5 Distributed Cloud Services.

In this webinar, you’ll learn about:
-  How Distributed Cloud Services can solve the challenges of operating in hybrid and multicloud environments.
-  The return-on-investment and key benefits that you can realize when adopting F5 Distributed Cloud Services.
-  A case study on how these benefits can apply to a typical customer and their business use cases.

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The Forrester Total Economic Impact™ of F5 Distributed Cloud Services

How do you secure your organization in today's ever-evolving threat landscape? As cyberthreats continue to advance in complexity, it’s imperative to stay ahead with a cutting-edge security posture.

Join us for an insightful webinar where we’ll delve into the importance of upgrading your F5 BIG-IP solutions to not only enhance security but boost performance and unlock valuable new capabilities.

In this webinar we’ll cover these topics:
-  Staying Ahead of the Curve"
Keep your F5 BIG-IP software up to date to avoid end-of-lifecycle complications and mitigate evolving cyberthreats and newly discovered vulnerabilities.

-  Boosting Performance and Automatability with rSeries:
Explore the unparalleled value of upgrading to F5's next-generation hardware system—F5 rSeries—with its superior performance and automatability to lay the foundation for a secure, scalable, and agile environment.

-  Enhancing Performance and Cloud Freedom with the latest BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE):
Dive into the benefits of upgrading to the latest BIG-IP VE software—which includes gaining greater multicloud freedom, reducing cloud operating costs, and obtaining superior performance.

-  Beginning Your Transition to BIG-IP Next:
Get introduced to F5’s revolutionary next-generation BIG-IP software—BIG-IP Next—and see how it simplifies operations, mitigates risk, bolsters resiliency, and enhances observability.

Elevate Security By Modernizing Your BIG-IP

Unleashing Kubernetes Potential: Simplify Connectivity with NGINX Gateway Fabric

Join us to learn about the new platform tool that we introduced for Kubernetes – NGINX Gateway Fabric, a unified application delivery fabric that is designed to streamline and simplify app, service, and API connectivity to, from, and within a Kubernetes cluster.

Learn from experts about deploying NGINX Gateway Fabric for fast, reliable, and secure app and API connections with easy governance. Perfect for Platform Architects, DevOps, and Sysadmins ready to future-proof their Kubernetes communications.

Key Takeaways:
-  Leverage Kubernetes Gateway API independently for streamlined management.
-  Deploy advanced connectivity scenarios effortlessly with NGINX Gateway Fabric.
-  Seamless interoperability of NGINX Gateway Fabric with Kubernetes-native ecosystem, including integrations with Prometheus and Grafana.

Don't miss out – secure your spot in our transformative webinar and elevate your Kubernetes strategy!

Kubernetes Connectivity Evolved: NGINX Gateway Fabric

The rise of AI is not all hype and frenzy. There are real implications—for productivity and competitiveness, and for governance and compliance. Every organization will have to evaluate how AI apps impact their business.

We’ve already reached an untenable state of risk and complexity with the rapid evolution of apps into API-based systems. Adding AI into the mix is like pouring gasoline on an already burning ball of fire. Multi-model and multimodal LLMs along with expanding AI ecosystems drive multicloud architectures—and they’re all connected by APIs.

It is imperative that architects and security teams unpack the massive risk surface for AI apps— and see why AI must be embraced by defenders to tango with adversarial AI that has democratized and supersized attacker arsenals.

In this webinar, we’ll cover:

-  Explore the fundamentals of AI such as Large Language Models, training, and inference.
-  Show the importance of secure multicloud networking and API security for delivering, protecting, and optimizing AI-enhanced digital experiences.
-  Highlight how F5 API security solutions are AI-ready and can help you safely unleash innovation.

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The AI Tsunami: Is Your API Security Ready for the Perfect Storm?

AI and API security are among the top hot-button issues in the security profession these days. Unfortunately, despite all the discussion, there’s not yet enough clarity around the topic. Many organizations still find it particularly difficult to understand when AI can add value and when it is merely being used for its buzz and hype. 

Looking beyond buzz and hype, how can you know when you’re applying AI in a useful way to creatively solve problems? AI works best when it’s carefully, strategically, and methodically leveraged to tackle the specific problems for which it is best suited.

Join F5 for a session on how to apply AI to API security – with best practices to keep in mind.

In this webinar, we’ll cover:

-  Why APIs require special security measures above and beyond those applied to applications.
The 10 best practices for API security that can be applied within your organization.
-  Why AI is a tool that needs to be applied to specific challenges.
-  Ways you can successfully apply AI to API Security.

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10 API Security Best Practices & AI Strategies

The need to meet modern IT requirements is creating difficulties for many organizations. Managing distributed applications across environments including public clouds, data centers, and edge locations is integral to the maintenance of a modernized app and API portfolio, but also adds complexity.

These distributed infrastructures introduce operational challenges, increased costs, reduced visibility, and heightened vulnerability to cyberattacks. To effectively solve these issues, a comprehensive approach with the right technologies is essential to properly connect and secure multicloud networks.

Join F5 experts for an insightful discussion on the top 2024 trends, challenges, and best practices for addressing the needs of both traditional and modern applications, all while maintaining granular control, visibility, and security—without adding complexity.

In this webinar, we’ll cover:

-  The complexities associated with hybrid and multicloud environments
-  Essential elements for achieving streamlined management across multiple clouds
-  Security strategies for consistently navigating multicloud networking challenges

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Secure Multicloud Trends and Challenges in 2024

In a digital landscape where performance, security, and efficiency are paramount, NGINX stands as a cornerstone for delivering high-performing modern applications. However, the complexity of configuring, securing, and managing NGINX can be challenging.

This webinar will demystify the complexities of NGINX, guiding you through the most effective methods to unify your security controls, enhance your system’s visibility, and embrace automation for a more resilient and responsive platform.

Whether you’re looking to refine your current NGINX setup or are in the early stages of adoption, this webinar is your stepping stone to a more streamlined and robust NGINX experience. Join us to unlock the full potential of your app infrastructure with less complexity and more confidence.

Our expert speakers will delve into practical techniques and best practices for deploying and using NGINX Instance Manager to streamline and simplify the management of your NGINX deployments.

This webinar is for Platform Architects & Engineers, DevOps teams, and system administrators seeking to elevate their NGINX management strategies.

By the end of this session, you will learn:

-  A comprehensive understanding of security best practices tailored specifically for NGINX environments.
-  How to gain actionable insights from monitoring and logging tools that offer greater visibility into your system’s performance and security posture.
-  Extensive automation techniques that will expedite your self-service deployment processes, improve accuracy, and free up valuable resources.

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NGINX Uncomplicated: Security, Visibility & Automation

Join us for a look at BIG-IP Next Access, the next generation of F5 BIG-IP app access control. An API-first solution, BIG-IP Next Access delivers secure access-as-code. This means you can now integrate access security directly into the app development process — ideal for those embracing automation in security controls.

Learn how this modern access security platform streamlines key use cases like Identity Aware Proxy and SSL VPN. A demo with BIG-IP Next Access Visual Policy Designer (VPD) will show how easy and fast it is to create policy with minimal UI work.

4-Part BIG-IP Next Series: PT4: Get Zero-Trust App Access with F5 BIG-IP Next

Say goodbye to complexity and welcome a new era of simple, fast, and secure encrypted threat protection with BIG-IP Next SSL Orchestrator. Taking an API-first approach and harnessing automation, BIG-IP Next SSL Orchestrator makes it way easier and faster for you to address the complexities of modern apps and the evolving cyber threat landscape.

Join this session to experience firsthand the transformative capabilities of BIG-IP Next SSL Orchestrator. Discover the pivotal enhancements that simplify and accelerate the deployment and management of encrypted traffic visibility and orchestration services. A demo will showcase BIG-IP Next SSL Orchestrator’s intuitive user interface, designed to streamline workflows and prioritize API-centric interactions.

4-Part BIG-IP Next Series: PT3: Encrypted Threat Protection F5 BIG-IP Next SSLO

Explore the power and advantages of the next generation of F5 web application firewall (WAF). The F5 BIG-IP Next WAF protects applications — addressing web app security by keeping pace with the constantly evolving application threat landscape.

Join this session to gain valuable insights, guidance, and best practices for a successful transition to BIG-IP Next WAF and discover many benefits along the way. A live demo will guide you on defending applications against various threats, boosting your app development and security efficiencies, and optimizing your WAF with speed and simplicity.

4-Part BIG-IP Next Series: PT2: Optimize Your WAF with BIG-IP Next

Deploying an app to a single location or to multiple locations has never been easier than it is with BIG-IP Next. But why stop there? Connect those apps wherever they live and build global resiliency into your network with F5 BIG-IP Next DNS, so users never visit an unhealthy or low-performing application.

Join this session and learn how to unlock operational enhancements, streamline app delivery, and gain crucial performance and health insights with F5 BIG-IP Next Central Manager. Discover the seamless transition of capabilities from F5 BIG-IP TMOS, including improvements that ensure rapid and repeatable app deployments that will provide you with more granular visibility and control.

4-Part BIG-IP Next Series: PT1: Transform App Delivery With F5 BIG-IP Next

Your network infrastructure integration and automation are key elements in the foundation of your digital environment – something that remains a top priority for users of Cisco ACI and F5 BIG-IP. And gaining better visibility can help with your journey to building a more effective network infrastructure. 

Join us for a webinar to learn how F5 can help you directly and efficiently enable L4-L7 capabilities as well as gain improved end-to-end visibility into your Cisco ACI fabric. We will be demonstrating these use cases and more.

In this webinar, we’ll cover:

-  How to unify visibility and monitor application health and traffic status 
-  Flexibly provisioning and deploying L4-L7 configuration – with or without templates
-  Facilitate network stitching between APIC logical devices and BIG-IP

Unify Your Deployment for Visibility with Cisco and the F5 ACI ServiceCenter

Join us for a webinar to discuss protecting healthcare data and Epic applications and addressing the urgent need for strengthened defenses against rising cyber threats. Recent 2023 data shows a significant increase in healthcare data breaches, highlighting the critical importance of safeguarding protected health information (PHI). In March 2024, breaches surged by 50% compared to February, marking the highest rate since September 2020. These breaches result in substantial financial losses and jeopardize patient privacy and trust.

In this webinar, we'll spotlight the collaboration between F5 and Epic, offering real-world insights into mitigating risks and ensuring regulatory compliance. Learn how our joint efforts enhance healthcare data security and protect PHI.

Learning Objectives
During this session, subject-matter experts will discuss:
-  Understanding the escalating threat landscape facing healthcare organizations today and tomorrow.
-  Recognizing the financial impact of breaches and the importance of PHI protection.
-  Discovering practical strategies for mitigating risks and achieving regulatory compliance.
-  Learning how F5 and Epic's collaboration strengthens healthcare data security.

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Securing Healthcare Data with F5

Navigating Modern API Security: Trends, Challenges, and Strategies for Financial Services

The financial services sector is increasingly relying on applications. The way consumers interface with their institutions, the growing number of third-party and auxiliary services like payments and collections, and the myriad of internal services are predominantly application-based.

With these services comes the complex mesh of API calls between front-end, back-end, and 3rd party applications, that span traditional and modern private data centers, co-lo exchanges, and a growing number of public clouds.
Not surprisingly, as financial services organizations have realized the importance of APIs, so have attackers. While there’s a dizzying array of solutions to protect against these attackers, not all API security solutions are created equally. So, how can teams find the right-fit approach to reach the summit of peak API protection?

Join us for this webinar where we’ll discuss:

-  Cybersecurity financial services risk predictions for 2024
-  The challenges of API security in a hybrid, multi-cloud digital world
-  API best practices for modern financial services

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How to Navigate Modern API Security in FinServ

The rapid evolution of AI is allowing developers to create the next generation of powerful apps and user experiences. Google Cloud makes that possible through the new Gemini family of AI models that offer enterprise-ready AI capabilities. But even the most advanced AI-powered apps need protection against cyberthreats, especially with a vast multicloud attack surface.

Join this webinar to learn how F5 and Google Cloud are using AI to accelerate app modernization and security. Uncover how to solve your app challenges in a multicloud world, including protecting the APIs that power your AI apps, defending against automated attacks, and connecting clouds, apps, and microservices anywhere.

Protect AI: Securing Your Modern Multicloud Apps with F5 and Google Cloud .

So, what is WAAP? It is an evolution of the WAF, conceptually and it stands for Web Application & API Protection (WAAP). It is similar to WAF in that the primary focus is to defend against layer 7 attacks - slowloris, brute force, L7 DOS, etc. - and also to provide protocol enforcement at layer 4. Another similarity is that both WAF and WAAP focus on the OWASP Top 10 as a framework for development. The glaring difference between the two is the necessitated inclusion of the OWASP Top 10 for APIs, as it is estimated that some 80% of the internet's traffic is now API related. WAAP has an understood bot defense component, as well. In the days of WAF, this was not as prevalent, but I think we all know that bot traffic is nothing short of explosive these days. 

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