Name: 4-Part BIG-IP Next Series: PT2: Optimize Your WAF with BIG-IP Next
Start: 2024-05-29T18:00:00Z
End: 2024-05-29T18:00:43.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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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 us for an insightful webinar where we explore the critical factors that organizations must consider when optimizing their AI ecosystems.

Discover the concept of "power gravity," where computational resources gravitate to regions with abundant and cost-effective power, and "data gravity," where data attracts applications and services. Learn how to balance these forces and make informed decisions for designing AI infrastructure that balances performance, reliability, and latency.

Equip yourself with the knowledge to build scalable, efficient, and sustainable AI infrastructures.

Don't miss this opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the strategies and technologies that can help your organization effectively balance these critical infrastructure drivers.

Join our webinar to explore:

-  Strategies for AI infrastructure that balance power and latency needs
-  Managing data gravity and ensuring compliance
-  Developing an AI strategy that is optimized for hybrid cloud deployments
-  Insights into current trends and future directions, including the role of renewable and nuclear energy sources

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Optimizing AI Infrastructure: Power, Latency, Data

Shadow AI is growing fast—and it might be slipping under your radar. Unauthorized generative AI tools are rapidly emerging as a critical blind spot for SecOps teams, increasing the risk of data leaks, compliance violations, and costly breaches. Want to get ahead of the threat?

Join us for this webinar where we’ll break down the emerging risk of Shadow AI—and show you how F5 BIG-IP SSL Orchestrator can help you take control. 

Learn how to regain visibility, easily deploy multi-layered security, and protect your organization from AI-driven threats.

Key learning objectives:

-  Understanding Shadow AI: Explore the concept of Shadow AI and uncover why it poses a significant blind spot for security operations.
-  Enhancing Visibility and Control: Discover how F5's advanced solutions provide deep insights into encrypted traffic and dynamic security orchestration to effectively manage Shadow AI threats.
-  Strengthening Security Measures: Learn practical strategies to streamline and fortify your security approach, ensuring robust protection against AI-driven risks.

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Shadow AI: The Hidden Security Risk

In this webinar, we’ll explore how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are transforming web application security – making it faster, smarter, and more cost effective. From zero-day prevention to automated WAF tuning, we’ll discuss how AI reduces false positives, improves threat accuracy, and empowers teams to do more with less.

Join us to see how security teams are leveraging AI not just to defend against today’s threats but to gain strategic control over time, cost, and liability in an ever-evolving threat landscape.

In this webinar, we’ll cover:

-  Improve detection accuracy and block malicious actors with fewer false positives.
-  Rapidly identify and contain novel vulnerabilities before they’re exploited.
-  Speed up investigations and reduce MTTR with AI-powered event analysis.
-  Automate policy tuning and strengthen posture with less manual effort.

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How AI is Rewriting the Rules of Web Application Security

By joining this F5 hosted webinar featuring Forrester, you'll gain valuable insights into trends that are driving the convergence of application delivery and security technologies. You will also learn how the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) addresses the challenges associated with these trends. Most importantly, you’ll discover how to streamline application delivery and security processes, reduce complexity, and improve efficiency.

Join F5 for a webinar with guest speaker from Forrester, Principal Analyst Andre Kindness, as we explore how to transform application delivery and security to meet these new challenges.
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Essential Insights:
-  Evolution of applications, application infrastructure, and application security.
-  Need for comprehensive delivery and security for every app and API.
-  Importance of a consistent policies across hybrid multicloud application deployments.

F5 Webinar Featuring Forrester: Navigating the New Era of App Delivery and Security

Join F5 for an insightful webinar on how F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes, deployed on NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs, transforms AI application performance and data center resource management. This session will explore the latest technical innovations that enhance networking, security, and traffic management, ensuring optimal AI inferencing and GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) performance. Discover how this powerful integration addresses the complexities of large-scale AI infrastructure, including AI factories, delivering improved efficiency, security, and scalability for your AI workloads.
Watch this webinar to learn about:
- Discover how F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes with NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs optimizes data center resources, reducing latency and improving data traffic management for AI applications.
- Learn about advanced security features and performance enhancements that protect AI workloads, including DDoS mitigation, API protection, and zero trust architectures.
- Understand the benefits of GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) and inferencing services, offering dynamic resource allocation, multi-tenancy, and handling diverse AI workloads for better user experiences and reduced costs.

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Maximizing AI Performance for AI Factories with F5

What was the webinar about? While there’s much to be said about lagging regulatory oversight, concerns about safety, and advancements in attacker sophistication, let’s not lose sight of the positive. 

AI is at the nexus of the digital world and will transform businesses across the globe—increasing operational efficiencies and enabling defenders and operators alike to better deliver secure digital experiences in a new era of business. 
Reacting to AI is not a nice-to-have but a must-do business imperative in order to compete in the 21st century.

In this webinar, we’ll cover:

-  How predictive AI has long been used, and will continue to be used, by defenders to maximize security efficacy.
-  Ways defenders and operators can embrace Generative AI to streamline operations and augment day-to-day tasks.
-  Why certain industries are fast movers in the AI space and where they are placing their bets.

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Embrace AI: Maximize Security Efficacy and Efficiency

AI applications introduce unique challenges due to the dynamic nature of both inbound prompts and outbound responses. Traditional application security methods do not address the non-deterministic nature of AI interactions requiring new platforms. F5 AI Gateway provides the security, visibility and scalability needed to deploy and operate AI applications confidently.

Join our upcoming webinar to dive deeper into the features and benefits of the F5 AI Gateway. Our experts will provide detailed insights, showcasing how our solution can transform your approach to AI application security.
In this webinar, we’ll cover:
-  Comprehensive protection: Understand how F5 AI Gateway offers deep inspection of dynamic AI interactions to secure your applications effectively.
-  Scalability, visibility and reliability: Learn how the architecture of F5 AI Gateway ensures your AI applications can scale, perform and be iterated to perform and evolve reliably in any environment.
-  Extensible security: Software development kits (SDKs) readily enable modification or updating actions on prompts and response which enables compliance with organization or regulatory requirements and protect against evolving threats.

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What is an AI Gateway? And Why do I need one?

Join industry experts from Red Hat and F5 in an insightful webinar focused on securely scaling generative AI workloads through the integration of Red Hat OpenShift AI and F5 Distributed Cloud API Security across the open hybrid cloud.

Discover how OpenShift AI offers a powerful, scalable MLOps platform for developing, training, and deploying AI models, while F5 Distributed Cloud provides advanced API security to protect your inference endpoints.

In this session, we will also delve into how F5's AI Factory approach facilitates the deployment of AI applications across hybrid and multicloud environments, ensuring they are secure, scalable, and reliable.

Key Learning Takeaways:
-  Understand how OpenShift AI enables scalable deployment of generative AI
-  Explore how F5 Distributed Cloud enhances security with features like API discovery, schema enforcement, and sensitive data redaction, demonstrated through a live demo.
-  Gain insights into F5's AI Factory approach and its effectiveness in supporting AI applications across various environments.

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Securing Model Serving in Red Hat OpenShift AI with F5 Distributed Cloud API Security

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Beyond API Security: Why F5 AI Gateway is Essential for Protecting, Accelerating and Observing AI

As AI applications become increasingly integral to modern business operations, the unique security and delivery challenges they present cannot be overlooked. Join us for an in-depth webinar where we explore the complexities of AI security and delivery, and how F5 AI Gateway provides comprehensive solutions to these challenges. 
Learn about best practices for deployment, the importance of monitoring AI traffic, and the innovative security measures needed to protect AI models from threats such as prompt injection, model manipulation, and AI-powered attacks. 
Whether you're leveraging AI as a service or managing hybrid and multicloud environments, this webinar will equip you with the knowledge and tools to secure and accelerate your AI applications effectively.

Key Takeaways:
-   Learn why traditional API security measures are insufficient for AI models.
-  Discover how F5 AI Gateway offers unique capabilities to protect AI models and applications by addressing specific threats such as prompt injection, model manipulation, hallucinations, and AI-powered attacks.
-  Explore the importance of observing and logging AI traffic for legal and compliance purposes, and how traffic steering policies and controls can accelerate AI application performance while preventing volumetric attacks.
-  Learn how F5 AI Gateway supports hybrid, multicloud deployments and integrates seamlessly with existing F5 solutions.

AI Under Attack: F5 AI Gateway Solves Unique Security Challenges

It's AI Friday! This week, we unpack the latest AI news and trends, including the top AI use cases for 2025, intriguing new developments from OpenAI, AI in nuclear safety with PG&E (what could possibly go wrong?), novel defenses against prompt injection attacks with CaMeL, and even LLM-powered conversations with dolphins. Join Aubrey, Joel, Ken, and Byron as they blend in-depth insights with good-natured humor.

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Protecting applications and APIs is crucial. While F5 BIG-IP administrators have managed this for years, emerging threats have made it increasingly complex and time-consuming. Adding multiple point solutions has only amplified this complexity.

F5 Distributed Cloud Services can enhance your BIG-IP systems with a cloud-based tool that extends your application DMZ, enables API discovery and protection, and increases visibility to help you reduce complexity and save time.

This webinar will demonstrate how to connect BIG-IP to Distributed Cloud Services to discover applications and APIs and expand the application DMZ.

In this webinar, we’ll cover:

-  Discover key use cases for augmenting BIG-IP: Learn how to enhance your F5 BIG-IP systems with F5 Distributed Cloud Services
-  Implement service discovery: Discover how to set up service discovery in your F5 BIG-IP environment
-  Enhance protection and observability: Add layers of protection and observability to your applications

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Bridging the Gap: Bring the Cloud to BIG-IP

Gear up for another deep dive! In this episode of AI Friday, we've got the crew—Aubrey, Joel, Byron, and Pete—ready to unpack the latest in AI technology and hardware. Join us as we break down Google's groundbreaking Ironwood TPU, exploring its impressive potential and the math behind AI acceleration. We'll also examine OpenAI's brand-new Agent, Operator, discussing how effectively it can handle real-world tasks and possible security implications. As we look ahead, we dissect the cybersecurity threats anticipated for 2025, from ransomware to AI-powered attacks, and explore how defenders might keep pace with rapidly evolving threats. Grab your thinking caps and coffee—it's time for another deep dive into the world of AI.

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Join experts from F5 and Microsoft for a panel discussion on F5 NGINXaaS for Azure. Learn why this ADC as a Service solution was created, how it addresses cloud-native app delivery and security challenges, and the benefits it brings to Azure-based workloads. 

Gain insights directly from the teams behind the solution and discover why it's a game-changer for performance, scalability, reliability, and customization in the cloud.

Key learning objectives:
-  Understand the challenges in cloud-native app delivery and security that led to the creation of F5 NGINXaaS for Azure.
-  Learn about the collaboration between F5 and Microsoft and its impact on creating a powerful solution for demanding use cases.
-  Explore the features and benefits of F5 NGINXaaS that help organizations optimize their cloud strategies and deliver exceptional user experience

F5 & Microsoft: Unleashing Cloud Power with NGINXaaS for Azure

Join us for an insightful webinar on advancing AI orchestration to simplify AI/ML infrastructure while enhancing AI model contextual awareness. This session will delve into high-performance connectivity strategies for hybrid and multicloud environments, designed to optimize retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and inference workflows for robust, secure, and scalable AI deployments.

Our experts will guide you through:
-  Orchestration techniques from data integration to inference
-  Improving AI accuracy during inference using RAG
-  Securing hybrid multicloud connectivity for AI infrastructure
-  Utilizing Kubernetes Ingress Controller for AI/ML workloads

Learn how to enrich AI with enterprise data for contextually-aware responses, streamline AI/ML workloads, and enhance performance and security across various deployment models.

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Advancing AI Orchestration for Hybrid and Multicloud

Join us for an informative webinar on migrating from VMware to Nutanix with the help of F5 BIG-IP. Industry experts will cover critical steps, best practices, and technical nuances for a successful migration.

As organizations seek efficiency and cost-effectiveness, many are moving to Nutanix. F5 BIG-IP plays a key role in this migration by enhancing application delivery with load balancing, security, and high availability, ensuring smooth and secure operations.

Nutanix offers a unified platform that integrates storage, compute, and network resources, simplifying management and reducing complexity. This hyperconverged infrastructure allows for scalability, flexibility, and cost savings by minimizing the need for extensive hardware and software licenses.

Key Learning Objectives:
Introduction to Nutanix: Understand the benefits and architecture of Nutanix's hyperconverged infrastructure and AHV hypervisor.

Migration Strategies: Explore methods and tools for transitioning from VMware to Nutanix, including the role of F5 BIG-IP in maintaining application availability.

F5 BIG-IP Solution: Learn how to integrate F5 BIG-IP with Nutanix for load balancing, application security, and high availability.

Use Cases and Best Practices: Gain insights from real-world examples of successful migrations, challenges encountered, and best practices to ensure minimal downtime and maximum efficiency.

This webinar is tailored for IT decision makers, administrators, infrastructure architects, system engineers, and anyone involved in managing or planning virtualized environments. Whether you're considering migration or are in the midst of one, this session offers valuable guidance and actionable insights

Don't miss the chance to deepen your understanding of VMware to Nutanix migrations with F5 BIG-IP. Register now to secure your spot and take the first step towards a more robust and scalable infrastructure.

Accelerate VMware to Nutanix Migration with F5 BIG-IP

Bots evolve to bypass even sophisticated bot management controls, as highlighted in a recent F5 Labs report. In this webinar, F5 Labs researchers will demonstrate the persistent bot problem in cybersecurity by analyzing over 200 billion web and API transactions from F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense customers. We will explore how attacks evolve against various industries and application functionalities. 

Using F5 data, we will delve into the workings of residential proxies. These proxies are now a preferred tool for attackers to bypass IP address restrictions.

This webinar will provide security professionals with insights into the current state of bot management, bot attacks, and their implications for enterprise security.

Attend this webinar to:
Understand the findings from the 2025 Advanced Persistent Bot Report, and different ways that bots target each industry
Learn how the rapid growth in residential IP proxy networks is empowering bot operators, allowing them to bypass most bot defenses
Strategies for strengthening bot defense and safeguarding your organization.

How Bots Evolve When You Block Them

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

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