Name: Unlocking WAF and API Security with NGINX App Protect
Start: 2024-11-13T21:00:00Z
End: 2024-11-13T21:00:32.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

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. 



Learn how leading organizations are accelerating their AI workflows—from seamless data ingestion for model training and real-time RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) corpus management to optimizing data repatriation from the cloud back to on-premises environments.

Join us for an exclusive webinar with Mark Menger, Solutions Architect at F5, and special guest Keith Pijanowski, AI Solutions Engineer at MinIO. Discover expert insights on how F5 and MinIO are transforming enterprise AI data infrastructure.

This webinar will showcase how F5 BIG-IP’s advanced L4-7 security and intelligent load balancing, combined with MinIO's AIStor robust object storage, provide a powerful integrated solution to streamline and enhance every stage of AI and ML pipelines.

What you'll learn:
- Streamlined AI Workflows: Unlock faster, more efficient AI deployments with optimized data pipelines—from data ingestion and model training to RAG corpus management. 
- Cloud-to-On-Prem Data Control: Master best practices for securely repatriating data from the cloud to on-premises environments to maximize performance, compliance, and control. 
- Enterprise-Grade Security & Scale: Explore how L4-7 security and intelligent load balancing ensure data integrity, application availability, and seamless AI workflow support at scale. 
- Business Value Unlocked: See how F5 and MinIO’s combined solutions reduce complexity, cut costs, and enable scalable, future-ready AI architectures.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how F5 and MinIO are powering the next generation of enterprise AI innovation.

F5 + MinIO: Transforming AI Data Delivery for the Enterprise

AI technology is evolving rapidly, moving from early predictive models and machine learning to the widespread use of generative AI. Enterprises are now deploying these generative capabilities and preparing for the next phase: autonomous agentic AI systems and physical AI that connects the digital and real worlds. Each phase brings increased demands on infrastructure, data delivery, and security.

In this webinar, we will explore how enterprises can scale, secure, and manage modern AI workloads by focusing on two key critical areas: AI Application & Data Delivery and AI Security. As AI workloads extend across hybrid and multicloud environments, its crucial enterprises ensure low-latency performance, reliable data throughput, and robust protection against emerging threats.      
 
Join us to discover how to deliver and defend high-performance AI applications—and protect the data, models, and APIs that drive them.      

Learning Objectives:
-  Protect AI applications, models, and data with full visibility, scalable security, and compliance-ready controls.
-  Accelerate the delivery of AI applications and the high-throughput data flows that power them.
-  Orchestrate seamless API and data connectivity to optimize inference pipelines across hybrid multicloud environments.

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Deliver and Secure Enterprise AI Applications

DNS is the foundation of seamless digital experiences, ensuring applications and websites perform reliably and securely. But with growing user demands, the traditional DNS setup can face limits in resiliency and scalability.  

In this webinar, discover how F5 Distributed Cloud DNS (XC DNS), a cloud-based solution, complements BIG-IP DNS and modernizes DNS infrastructures. By combining enterprise-grade reliability, global availability, and integrated security, F5 XC DNS ensures domains stay resilient and responsive-even during outages or cyberattacks.  

Join us to learn how F5 XC DNS can spark conversations about edge computing, application acceleration, and cloud-scale performance while fortifying DNS reliability and security. 

Key learning objectives:
- Unlock added scalability and performance with F5 XC DNS.
- Enhance DNS security with DNSSEC and cloud-native defenses.  
- Modernize DNS and integrate seamlessly with BIG-IP DNS setups

Boost Resilience and Performance with F5 Distributed Cloud DNS

F5 NGINX is the backbone of modern app delivery, powering critical functions like load balancing, API gateways, reverse proxying, and traffic management in Kubernetes environments. As organizations increasingly rely on NGINX to drive their infrastructure, ensuring its security and scalability isn’t just important—it’s essential.

Managing and securing multiple instances of NGINX across environments can be both time-consuming and complex. F5 NGINX Instance Manager is purpose-built to address these challenges, offering you the tools to discover, configure, secure, and monitor your NGINX Open Source and F5 NGINX Plus Instances with precision at scale – all while meeting robust security requirements.

Join us for this webinar/demo session to learn how NGINX Instance Manager empowers you to strengthen your security posture, optimize performance, and simplify operational management.

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How to Discover, Secure, and Manage F5 NGINX at Scale

Modern apps demand reliable delivery and resilient security to protect against evolving threats. The F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) converges fast, scalable app delivery with advanced security controls, ensuring consistent protection for apps, APIs, services, and workloads across hybrid and cloud-native environments. 

NGINX is critical to the app ecosystem as a reverse proxy, ingress controller, and load balancer. It’s the ideal solution to deliver modern apps securely at scale.

With F5 NGINX App Protect and cutting-edge technology like eBPF, organizations can enforce declarative configurations, enterprise-grade WAF, and API protection policies– all while seamlessly integrating with Kubernetes.

Join us to explore how NGINX, integral to F5 ADSP and enhanced with eBPF-driven insights, empowers organizations to simply protect APIs and ensure secure, consistent modern app delivery across cloud-native environments. 

In this session, you’ll learn:

-  How the F5 ADSP strengthens the security and delivery of APIs, apps, and Kubernetes workloads using NGINX
- Protect APIs and app traffic with lightweight WAF, DoS prevention, and adaptable API security policies enhanced by eBPF
-  Manage declarative configurations efficiently within Kubernetes-based architectures while bolstering app security 

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Modern App Security Made Simple with F5 NGINX

To effectively secure applications and APIs in this dynamic environment, organizations need smarter, automated solutions. Introducing F5 Distributed Cloud Web App Scanning: our innovative solution offers continuous dynamic penetration testing with actionable insights, seamlessly augmenting traditional manual testing programs. Protect even the most complex web applications more efficiently, saving time, resources, and money.

This webinar is ideal for security professionals, IT managers, developers, CISOs, and compliance officers who are involved in the security and management of web applications and APIs.

Learn how to:

-  Unlock the Power of Continuous Security Testing: Discover how dynamic runtime security testing can enhance your existing manual efforts and keep your applications safe
-  Experience F5 Distributed Cloud Web App Scanning in Action: Join us for an exciting demo to see how our innovative solution can protect your web apps.
-  Get a Complimentary App Security Assessment: Learn how you can evaluate the current security posture of your organization's web apps with F5's free assessment offer.

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Stay Secure: Embrace Continuous Testing for Modern Web Applications

Quantum computing is progressing at an unprecedented pace, and cybercriminals are already collecting encrypted data with the intention of decrypting it once quantum technology becomes viable. This puts sensitive information—such as customer data, financial records, and proprietary intellectual property—at significant risk.

The longer organizations postpone preparing for the quantum era, the greater their vulnerability becomes. The future of cybersecurity lies in being quantum-ready, and the time to act is now.
Backed by decades of cryptographic leadership, the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) is ready now to help you embrace end-to-end post-quantum cryptography (PQC) with NIST-approved algorithms across hybrid, multicloud, and legacy environments .

Key learning objectives:

-  Understand the quantum threat landscape: Master the fundamentals of PQC and uncover the potential security risks posed by quantum computing advancements.
-  Assess and strengthen your organization’s PQC readiness: Learn how to evaluate your organization's preparedness for PQC and the importance of planning a quantum-resilient security roadmap now.
-  Simplify your transition to quantum-safe security with F5: Explore how F5 ADSP helps streamline the adoption of quantum-safe cryptography and secure your most critical assets 
with ease.

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Future-Proofing Cybersecurity: Navigating PQC

Are you ready to unlock the full potential of AI in your organization? Join our exclusive webinar to discover how F5’s AI Security Solution, part of the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform, can revolutionize your approach to AI operations. 

AI innovation is transforming industries, but it brings new security challenges. Protecting Large Language Models (LLMs), securing APIs, ensuring safe RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) data connectivity, and mitigating shadow AI risks require a holistic approach to safeguard AI workloads. 

This webinar is your gateway to understanding how F5 provides unparalleled visibility, robust security controls, and seamless scaling across hybrid, multi-cloud, and edge environments. Don't miss out on this opportunity to learn from real-world use cases and gain practical knowledge that will empower you to operationalize AI securely and efficiently. 

Whether you're a Cloud Architect, AI Ops team member, or Security leader, this webinar is designed to equip you with the tools and insights needed to protect your AI innovations and drive success in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Key Highlights:
-  Gain insights into securing LLMs with observability and dynamic model routing.
-  Learn how to optimize AI accuracy with secure RAG data source connectivity and discover tools to automatically detect, monitor, and protect APIs powering AI applications.
-  Understand how to securely deploy scalable model inference across hybrid environments.
-  Explore shadow AI detection strategies to prevent unauthorized usage.

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Securing Al: Protecting Models, APIs, and Data

Modern enterprises face significant challenges in deploying, scaling, and securing applications across hybrid multicloud environments. Rising operational complexity, ballooning costs, and compliance demands make it difficult to ensure seamless application availability for customers and partners.

With F5 Distributed Cloud Services on Equinix Network Edge, enterprises can now simplify global application deployment, enable zero-trust partner access, and achieve centralized observability and management, all without the need for physical infrastructure. Our solution enables businesses to reduce their time-to-market for new services while maintaining robust security. F5 and Equinix give you the flexibility to adapt to evolving business needs, ensuring long-term scalability and resiliency while optimizing costs and maintaining compliance.
Join Rahul Phadke, Director of Product Management at F5, and Mandar Joshi, Director of Product Management at Equinix, to discover how this solution empowers industries like financial services, healthcare, and retail to securely expand globally, connect with partners seamlessly and simplify infrastructure for distributed AI applications., all while optimizing costs and compliance.

Join us to:

-  Explore the key market trends fueling the demand for secure, scalable application access on a global scale.
-  Discover how you can drive innovation, agility, efficiency, connectivity & compliance via key use cases.
-  Learn how you can seamlessly begin your journey with F5 and Equinix today.

Simplify App Delivery and Security with F5 and Equinix

In an increasingly complex digital landscape, securing sensitive data has never been more critical—especially as healthcare, financial institutions, retail and other industries face expanding API attack surfaces and the imminent threats posed by quantum computing.

Join security experts Chuck Herrin (F5) and Rich Morrow (Trace3) for an in-depth discussion on safeguarding APIs in today's volatile environment while preparing for tomorrow's quantum-driven challenges. Attendees will gain actionable insights into overcoming API discovery and observability hurdles, addressing the fivefold risk amplification caused by generative AI, and understanding the urgency of adopting post-quantum cryptography to mitigate "harvest now, decrypt later" threats from advanced nation-state actors.

Don't miss this opportunity to future-proof your security strategies and gain clarity on adapting to an evolving threat landscape. Choose your path to a more secure future: Watch today.
 
What You'll Learn
-  Uncover Hidden Vulnerabilities: Identify gaps in API observability and learn how to address them.
-  Stay Ahead of AI Risks: Understand how generative AI expands API attack surfaces and how to mitigate emerging threats.
-  Prepare for the Quantum Era: Explore the impact of quantum computing on data security and the importance of post-quantum cryptography.
-  Future-Proof Your Strategy: Learn strategies for building a resilient API security framework to stay ahead of evolving threats.

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Future-Proofing API Security in the Age of AI and Quantum Computing

Join us for an insightful webinar where we'll dive into scaling and modernizing your BIG-IP operations with innovative tools like Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), GitOps, and automation frameworks.

Whether you’re a BIG-IP operator, network administrator, or IT professional looking to streamline your workflows and improve operational scalability, this session is for you. 

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to take your BIG-IP administration to the next level and support your organization’s growth with confidence.

Discover practical insights including how to:

-  Scale, automate, and ensure consistency in BIG-IP infrastructure and application delivery/security service administration
-  Utilize seamless tools for BIG-IP administration, including automation frameworks, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), GitOps, and more
-  Optimize your automation strategy and lifecycle management for your BIG-IP estate, now and into the future

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Scale, Enhance, and Evolve BIG-IP Administration

Cyberattacks are becoming more frequent and more advanced, and recovery is taking longer, putting intense pressure on healthcare organizations (HCOs) to strengthen their data protection strategies. As HCOs race to adopt agentic and generative AI in their applications to stay competitive and cut costs, the value of their data—and the risk of a breach—continues to grow. The impact of a cyberattack now goes far beyond financial loss; it can damage operations, reputation, and patient trust.

In this webinar, F5 and guest speaker Forrester Principal Analyst Arielle Trzcinski will present recent research on healthcare trends.

We’ll cover:
-  How AI adoption is changing the risk landscape—and what to expect in 2026
-  Why consumers are demanding stronger protection for their personal health and financial data
-  Why meeting compliance standards isn’t enough—and how to make cybersecurity best practices your foundation

Learn how to shift from reactive defense to proactive resilience—and prepare your organization for what is next.

Beyond Compliance: Building the Future of Healthcare Resilience

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

Gain exclusive insights from Twimbit’s “2025 Global State of Open Finance” report, sponsored by F5, and discover innovative use cases reshaping financial services globally. Open finance has rapidly matured into a global movement, with over 132 million active users and more than 330 billion annual open banking payment transactions. singly embrace open finance, the landscape is evolving quickly, driven by innovative embedded finance use-cases, advanced regulatory frameworks, secure API infrastructures, and artificial intelligence integrations.

In this exclusive session, financial industry experts from Twimbit and F5 share deep insights from the just released "2025 Global State of Open Finance" report. Explore breakthrough strategies, learn from world-class examples, and stay ahead of emerging trends reshaping financial innovation.

Key Insights You'll Gain:
-  Twimbit’s Global Open Finance Maturity Index: Discover insights from Twimbit’s exclusive maturity assessment of 32 leading countries and identify what differentiates market leaders from fast followers.
-  Innovative Use Cases and Advanced Regulatory Strategies: Gain practical insights from real-world embedded finance success stories alongside proactive regulatory approaches pushing the boundaries of open finance.
-  API Security and the Power of AI: Explore secure strategies for managing API-driven ecosystems amid the rising complexity posed by artificial intelligence integrations and increased cybersecurity risks.

Who Should Attend? This webinar is ideal for professionals already involved with open finance, including banking and financial services executives, fintech leaders, product and innovation teams, compliance and risk professionals, digital strategy leaders, and technology infrastructure teams looking to elevate their open finance initiatives.


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2025 Global State of Open Finance

APIs are pivotal in today’s digital landscape, driving innovation and efficiency by enabling seamless interactions between services and platforms. However, this increased reliance on APIs has expanded the attack surface, exposing vulnerabilities that traditional security measures struggle to defend against.

Join our webinar to discover how F5 NGINX App Protect v5.0 offers consistent, enterprise-grade security for APIs and services with tailored visibility, control, and protection across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments all while ensuring zero impact on the data plane through the separation of control plane.

What you’ll learn:

-  Defend diverse services, AI technologies, platforms, and applications in cloud environments, including container-based orchestrations, with extended support beyond K8s, and K3s.
-  Enhance security with tailored visibility and control, ensuring zero impact on the data plane through the separation of the control plane.
-  Leverage lightweight, high-performance WAF, DoS, and API security.

Watch a demo showcasing how NGINX App Protect secures services using APIs, including its deployment on NIC and NAPaaS on Azure.

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