Name: Session 2: Protect Your Apps and APIs across a Distributed Cloud
Start: 2023-07-21T09:00:00Z
End: 2023-07-21T09:00:31.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 5

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.

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

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 maximise 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.

Embrace AI: Maximise Security Efficacy and Efficiency

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

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 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 responses, which enables compliance with organisation or regulatory requirements and protects against evolving threats.

What is an AI Gateway and Why Do I Need One?

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?

In today’s multicloud world, where the number of applications is forecast to grow by over 150 million by 2029, application delivery is becoming increasingly complex. Rising user expectations, fragmented infrastructures, hybrid app constructs, and limited visibility are pushing you and your operations teams to the limit.

Join us to explore how F5 is actively transforming application delivery for the next era of apps and IT operations. Featuring real-world examples, this session will empower you to continue delivering exceptional application experiences while streamlining your day-to-day operations.

Modernise Application Delivery for the New Era

The rapid adoption of AI brings unprecedented opportunities and challenges. Hybrid, multicloud environments face heightened complexities, new vulnerabilities, and increasing demands on security, cost efficiency, performance, and governance. 

Join us to explore the foundational elements for securing, scaling, and optimising AI applications. Discover how F5, in collaboration with key technology alliance partners, addresses AI-specific challenges. Gain insights into safeguarding intellectual property, ensuring regulatory alignment, and protecting APIs powering AI.

As enterprises embrace AI-enabled applications, F5’s cutting-edge solutions – spanning multicloud orchestration, advanced observability, and custom programmability – are transforming the way organisations securely deliver AI.

Prepare for the Opportunities and Challenges in Enterprise AI

The applications you deliver today rely heavily on APIs. 92% of attacks F5 sees across our customers' applications are targeted specifically at these types of endpoints. As complex architectures proliferate with connected ecosystems through APIs and third-party integrations, they’re creating a precarious “ball of fire,” which is further exacerbated by the rapid adoption of AI.

Partnering with F5, you can gain valuable insights into risks such as application vulnerabilities and tame your ball of fire to safely deploy modern and emerging AI apps. See how F5 can empower your security team to protect your existing apps and APIs – uncovering weaknesses across your digital estate and enabling them to confidently secure your entire organisation.

In this webinar, we will demonstrate how to identify and remediate vulnerabilities to improve your organisation’s security posture. Learn what attackers see by scanning your public-facing digital properties so you can act before they do.

Uncover the Growing Threats to Your Digital Domain

Securing and Optimising AI Architectures: Get a glimpse into the anatomy of a typical AI architecture, with expert guidance on where SecOps teams should focus to protect critical systems and infrastructure. In this session, we'll break down key AI components and workflows, highlight essential security touchpoints, and share proven techniques to enhance the performance and resilience of AI applications.

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.

Unlock the Power of AI: Securing and Optimising AI Architectures

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

The Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) market is rapidly expanding due to evolving business risks, security threats, regulatory mandates, and cyber insurance requirements. Organisations are now seeking flexible deployment options and vendors who can integrate WAAP capabilities into a cohesive offering, ensuring robust protection against online threats.

This integration helps close security gaps and reduces management complexity. According to IDC research, 77% of businesses consider integration between security solutions either 'important’ or ‘critically important’.

Join this webinar to gain insights on:
- The current state of the WAAP market, key vendors and main trends influencing the market over the next 1-2 years

- Top drivers motivating businesses to invest in integrated WAAP solution

- Critical questions buyers should ask when evaluating WAAP offerings

- Impact of compliance and regulations on the WAAP market

- Key WAAP use cases for protecting applications and APIs across all environments

WAAP Market Insights: What Buyers Need to Know in 2025

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

With cloud architectures, protecting both the application business logic and the underlying infrastructure is paramount. With the F5 Distributed Cloud platform, your business logic is secured by comprehensive WAAP functions, providing WAF, DDoS, bot defence, and API security capabilities, while your cloud workloads are kept safe with Application Infrastructure Protection.

In this track, you will learn how easily you can:

• Protect your applications with state-of-the-art WAAP capabilities
• Combine WAAP with cloud workload protection to secure the cloud-native infrastructure
• Enhance application performance, availability, and user experience with advanced DNS and CDN capabilities


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