Name: Lightboard Lessons: Introducing the F5 Advanced WAF
Start: 2018-12-13T09:00:00Z
End: 2018-12-13T09:01:09.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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F5 is a multi-cloud application services and security company committed to bringing a better digital world to life. F5 partners with the world’s largest, most advanced organizations to secure and optimize every app and API anywhere—on premises, in the cloud, or at the edge. F5 enables organizations to provide exceptional, secure digital experiences for their customers and continuously stay ahead of threats.

A convergence of powerful megatrends is setting the stage for a perfect storm of risk in 2026 and beyond. Start Cybersecurity Awareness Month with F5 Field CISO Chuck Herrin in a strategic webinar briefing on the four forces reshaping the enterprise attack surface.

With rapid advances in quantum computing, the risk of 'Harvest Now, Decrypt Later' has become a pressing issue. Join Chuck as he explores the latest developments in post-quantum cryptography and shares how your organisation can proactively prepare for this inevitable shift.

Gain actionable insights from a defender's view, including strategies for proactive governance, resilient design, and autonomous defence.

Don’t miss this essential briefing that will prepare you to adapt and lead through 2026’s perfect storm of cyber risk.

The Four Megatrends to Watch:
- The API Battlefield: Discover how attackers are targeting the sprawling, ungoverned API ecosystem and exploiting vulnerabilities in business logic to bypass security defences.

- AI’s Dual Threat: Learn to combat AI-powered attacks like AI-generated ransomware and manage internal risks posed by 'Shadow AI' and failed AI experiments within your organisation.

- Geopolitical Shifts: Why data sovereignty and supply chain resilience have pushed multi-cloud strategies to the forefront of enterprise security.

The Quantum Leap: Prepare for "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" Risks as Quantum Computing Accelerates the Race Toward Post-Quantum Cryptography Adoption.

Beyond the horizon: A CISO's briefing on the four megatrends shaping 2026

We are excited to share the pivotal advantages of embracing a hybrid, multicloud strategy and how integrating advanced AI technologies can drive innovation and efficiency within your organisation.

Discover the multifaceted benefits of hybrid, multicloud deployments. Learn how this approach can reduce overall cloud expenditure, enhance system resilience, and streamline AI application deployment.

Watch this session to gain valuable insights and actionable strategies to navigate the complexities of the modern IT landscape and harness the full potential of a multicloud environment powered by AI.

Key Takeaways:
* Discover the driving forces behind the shift towards a multicloud strategy and what makes it compelling for organisations today.
* Understand the challenges associated with implementing a multicloud strategy and how to effectively address them.
* Learn how AI applications are influencing and shaping multicloud strategies.
* Explore how F5's solutions can help you overcome the inherent challenges of multicloud environments.

Driving AI Integration with Hybrid Multicloud Strategies

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, developing robust infrastructure to support large-scale AI applications poses significant challenges. Join us for an insightful webinar where we explore the critical factors that organisations must consider when optimising 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 organisation effectively balance these critical infrastructure drivers.

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

Optimising AI Infrastructure: Power, Latency, Data

Shadow AI is growing fast—and it might be slipping under your radar. Unauthorised 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 organisation 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.

Shadow AI: The Hidden Security Risk

Are you ready to unlock the full potential of AI in your organisation? Watch our webinar to discover how F5’s AI Security Solution, part of the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform, can revolutionise 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 unauthorised usage.

Securing Al: Protecting Models, APIs, and Data

Optimizing AI/ML Infrastructure with F5 Solutions

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 optimise 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
- Utilising Kubernetes Ingress Controller for AI/ML workloads

Don't miss this opportunity to see how F5 empowers enterprises to deploy reliable, secure, and scalable AI solutions with ease. 

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.

Advancing AI Orchestration for Hybrid and Multicloud

As financial services organisations push the boundaries of digital innovation, they face escalating expectations from account holders and significant operational challenges. The 2024 State of Application Strategy report: Financial Services Edition reveals that over 80% of these organisations are deploying AI assistance, despite data system maturity being a major barrier. The average financial services organisation manages 601 APIs, increasing exposure to cyberattacks and complicating security in hybrid, multicloud environments. These challenges are further compounded by the threat of cyberattacks, immature data systems, and a shortage of skilled professionals.

Together with report author Lori MacVittie, Sr Director, Solutions Engineering, Andy Franklin, and industry solutions expert, Chad Davis, join us for a fireside chat as we discuss findings and practical insights into the current digital landscape in financial services and explore strategies to effectively manage AI deployments and mitigate associated risks from the 2024 State of Application Strategy report: Financial Services Edition.

Don’t miss this session to hear what your Financial Services peers from around the world are telling us.

Watch this webinar to learn:

- How API Security is expanding in financial services

- The top benefits being delivered by hybrid, multicloud deployments

- Where lagging automation threatens AI success

Overcoming AI and API Hurdles in Financial Services

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:

- Enhanced AI Infrastructure Efficiency: Discover how F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes with NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs optimises data centre resources, reducing latency and improving data traffic management for AI applications.

- Streamlined AI Application Security and Performance: Learn about advanced security features and performance enhancements that protect AI workloads, including DDoS mitigation, API protection, and zero trust architectures.

- Scalable and Flexible AI Use Cases: 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.

Maximising AI Performance for AI Factories with F5

Open finance has rapidly matured into a global movement, with more than 132 million active users and over 330 billion open banking payment transactions each year.
 
As financial institutions embrace this shift, the landscape is evolving quickly – driven by innovative embedded finance use cases, advanced regulatory frameworks, secure API infrastructures, and the growing role of artificial intelligence.
 
In this webinar, financial industry experts from F5 will explore how to:

- Navigate complexity in open finance ecosystems
- Keep pace with the API explosion in open finance
- Manage third-party ecosystems
- Stay ahead of evolving regulatory and data governance requirements
- Strengthen security across hybrid financial environments

Join us to gain deeper insight into the new open finance landscape and how your organisation can thrive in it.

Navigating the New Open Finance Landscape

Curious about how AI apps are built?

In this seven-minute Brightboard Lesson, Buu Lam, Director of Community Evangelism at F5, takes you through the architecture of an AI-based app. He’ll also show you how app services ensure the scale, resilience and security of AI apps.

Whether you’re new to AI or want a clearer picture of what F5 does for AI, you'll want to check out this quick lesson.

What does F5 do for AI?

Discover how F5's multicloud networking solution streamlines the deployment and operation of AI-powered Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) infrastructures. In this session, we'll present a real-world example demonstrating how F5 enables seamless, high-performance interconnectivity for RAG solutions, optimising AI deployment for greater efficiency and scalability.

Across four short demo sessions, we'll show how F5 solutions simplify and strengthen the way you protect modern apps and APIs, secure apps with integrated vulnerability scanning, scale and streamline AI RAG deployments, and optimise the security and performance of AI architectures.

Simplify and Scale Your AI RAG Deployment

Proactively Secure Your Applications with Integrated Vulnerability Scanning: Gain comprehensive visibility and actionable insights across your web applications, from code creation to deployment. F5's Web App Scanning provides a seamless and effective solution for monitoring vulnerabilities throughout your entire application portfolio, helping you strengthen your security posture.

Across four short demo sessions, we'll show how F5 solutions simplify and strengthen the way you protect modern apps and APIs, secure apps with integrated vulnerability scanning, scale and streamline AI RAG deployments, and optimise the security and performance of AI architectures.

Proactively Secure Your Applications with Integrated Vulnerability Scanning

With comprehensive "shift-left" and "shield-right" security solutions, F5 equips organisations with an integrated approach to API discovery and protection. Join us as we explore end-to-end API security, from development to deployment, ensuring your APIs remain secure at every stage of their lifecycle.

Across four short demo sessions, we'll show how F5 solutions simplify and strengthen the way you protect modern apps and APIs, secure apps with integrated vulnerability scanning, scale and streamline AI RAG deployments, and optimise the security and performance of AI architectures.

Protect Your Modern Apps and APIs with End-to-End Security

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, organisations are increasingly harnessing the power of edge computing to drive innovation and maintain a competitive advantage. By bringing computational resources closer to the source of data generation, edge computing minimises latency and reduces bandwidth use, leading to more efficient operations.

As AI-driven applications proliferate, the adoption of edge computing is set to accelerate due to its ability to synthesise and analyse data at unprecedented speeds. This trend underscores the importance of understanding and embracing edge strategies to stay at the forefront of technological advancement.

 In this webinar, our experts will cover:

- Business drivers and technical requirements for edge computing
- Traditional solutions vs. novel approaches
- Deploying, managing, and protecting applications at the edge
- Practical approaches to Edge AI and federated learning

Join us to gain actionable insights and solutions for effectively managing the edge ecosystem

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AI on the Edge

The rise of AI is not all hype and frenzy. There are real implications – for productivity and competitiveness, for governance and compliance, and for security.

Cyber security is a principal concern for those tasked with delivering AI services. Generative AI and other AI toolkits are becoming prime attack surfaces for cyber criminals, who are both targeting AI and leveraging AI for malicious gains.

It is imperative that architects and security teams unpack the massive risk surface for AI applications.

In this webinar, we’ll cover:
- AI app architectures: Deploying and protecting AI apps across distributed environments

- AI security issues: Addressing new threats such as prompt injection attacks, data leakage, and OWASP Top 10 for LLM Apps

- App services for AI security: Leveraging solutions such as API security, DDoS protection, and bot defence

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Is Your AI Security Ready for the Perfect Storm?

APIs are fundamental to the digital economy, serving as the bridge to modernise legacy apps. However, the rise of API-based architectures introduces unforeseen risks from an expanding ecosystem of third-party integrations, making APIs an attractive vector for adversaries.

Join us for an insightful webinar with guest Forrester, as we delve into the market challenges, the development of the API landscape, and the security risks associated with API deployment. We will discuss the critical components of API security and offer practical suggestions to defend against API-specific attacks and threats.

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Shielding Your APIs: Practical Tips and AI-Powered Security

Big advances in performance and more flexible virtualisation allow customers to consolidate their existing older BIG-IP or VIPRION systems on to fewer, more capable systems. Powerful declarative APIs make it faster and easier for DevOps, NetOps, and other BIG-IP-reliant teams to manage and automate their BIG-IP deployments.

After more than eight years of service in the most demanding environments, the F5 VIPRION B2000 series blades reached End of Sale April 2023. What makes its successor, the new VELOS chassis, a compelling option? Wondering how to get a head start planning your move to the new system?

Join this live webinar to learn the capabilities of the new rSeries appliances and VELOS chassis.

In this webinar, you’ll learn how to:

- Integrate rSeries and VELOS into modern application environments
- Plan a convenient migration path from older F5 BIG-IP systems
- Size a system refresh or new deployment appropriately
- Use automation to simplify day-to-day operations

Are you Ready? Time to Move to VELOS and rSeries

In this session, we'll dive into the portfolio of Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) solutions that allow you to secure your workloads no matter where or how they are deployed. You will hear how we are unifying the experiences across our application security portfolio to make them easier to manage and deploy. The session will also cover how F5 products deal with advanced threats that can only be defeated with AI/ML available within the F5 product portfolio.
  
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Securing Apps & APIs Across Hybrid and Multicloud

The F5 Advanced Web Application Firewall (WAF) provides a powerful set of security features that will keep your Web Applications safe from attack. Many WAFs offer a basic level of protection from attack at the higher layers of the OSI stack, but the F5 Advanced WAF takes things even further and offers some serious security features like Anti Bot Mobile SDK, Credential Stuffing threat feeds, Proactive Bot Defense, and Datasafe to name a few. In this video, John outlines many of the exciting features offered in the F5 Advanced WAF.

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Lightboard Lessons: Introducing the F5 Advanced WAF

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