Name: The Forrester Total Economic Impact™ of F5 Distributed Cloud Services
Start: 2025-05-19T07:49:00Z
End: 2025-05-19T07:49:59.000Z
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With 20+ years of application service experience, F5 provides the broadest set of services and security for enterprise-grade apps, whether on-premises or across any multi-cloud environment.

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APIs power today’s digital experiences—but they also introduce new and often invisible security risks. Traditional web security tools simply aren’t built to handle the complexity and velocity of modern APIs.

Many organizations operate with limited visibility, unaware of shadow or undocumented APIs that quietly expand the attack surface and increase operational risk.

In this webinar, you'll learn how to uncover these hidden gaps. Discover how F5 Distributed Cloud Services, integrated with your BIG-IP platform, enables real-time API discovery—so you can gain full visibility and take control of your API ecosystem.

Register now and learn how to build a stronger, more visible API security posture.

Uncover API Blind Spots with Real-Time API Discovery on BIG-IP

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.

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.

Don't miss this opportunity to stay ahead of the curve and learn how to maximize the potential of your AI applications with confidence.

What Is an AI Gateway? And Why Do I Need One?

Join F5 for an interactive webinar to dive into unlocking the potential of artificial intelligence using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG.) RAG is becoming a popular and cost-effective way to use proprietary corporate data to enhance the use of large language models (LLMs) to deliver timely, precise, and context-aware AI model outputs.

During this webinar hosted by F5, discover how F5 and NetApp's growing technology alliance partnership can enable your organization to turn NetApp-stored information into a strategic AI advantage.

Key Learning Objectives:
>How to combine a pre-trained model with proprietary organizational data for more accurate and contextually aware responses
> Explore how RAG incorporates organizational data to complement models and deliver better inference
> Enabling high-performance data mobility and security for AI workloads anywhere with F5 and NetApp

Secure and Expedite RAG AI Deployments with F5 and NetApp

Secure Your Spot: AI, APIs, and the Future of Security
The rise of AI is reshaping the business and technology landscape—but it also amplifies risks. As API-driven ecosystems expand and AI applications grow more complex, organizations must act to secure multicloud architectures and defend against adversarial AI threats.

In this webinar, you’ll learn:
> Learn the importance of secure multicloud networking and API security for delivering, protecting, and optimizing AI-enhanced digital experiences.
> Explore the fundamentals of AI such as Large Language Models, training, and inference.
> See how F5 API security solutions are AI-ready and can help you safely unleash innovation.

Don’t miss this opportunity to tackle the challenges of AI while unleashing its full potential.

The Future is AI-Driven: How Secure Are Your APIs?

We are excited to invite you to our upcoming webinar, “Secure, Deliver, and Optimize Your Modern Generative AI Apps with F5,” where we will dive into the latest strategies and solutions to ensure your AI applications are secure, efficient, and high performing.

As generative AI continues to revolutionize industries, it’s crucial to understand how to effectively manage and protect these advanced applications. In this webinar, we will cover key topics, including:

Securing Generative AI Applications: Learn about the latest security threats and how to safeguard your AI apps against vulnerabilities.
Optimizing Performance: Discover the best practices for enhancing the performance of your AI applications to ensure they run smoothly and efficiently.
Delivering Reliable AI Services: Explore techniques for ensuring the consistent and reliable delivery of AI-powered services to your users.

Secure, Deliver, and Optimize Your Modern Generative AI Apps with F5

Application Programming Interfaces (API) are crucial for modern software development and integration but often present significant security challenges. This session offers an in-depth exploration of how the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) can be effectively applied to enhance the security of APIs and leverage the structured approach provided by the NIST CSF.

Key functions covered:
- Identify: Catalog API assets and resources, and document potential vulnerabilities and risks.
- Protect: Implement security measures to safeguard APIs, and shift left while shielding right.
- Detect: Monitor and detect anomalous activities and potential breaches using logging, continuous monitoring tools, and API-specific incident detection systems.
- Respond: Analyze and mitigate API breaches using forensic tools, develop and execute response strategies, and coordinate communication during security events.
- Recover: Ensure API service continuity, minimize downtime, and update security practices based on incident learnings.

Designed for cybersecurity professionals, IT managers, and API custodians, this session will equip you with actionable strategies to safeguard your digital assets and maintain trust in your API services. Don't miss this opportunity to bolster your API security with expert guidance on applying the NIST CSF framework.

Secure your spot now and take a decisive step towards mastering API security!

Mastering API Security with the NIST CSF Framework: A Deep Dive into Protecting Your Digital Ecosystem

In today’s hyper-connected, AI-driven world, digital resiliency is no longer optional—it's essential. A single system failure can lead to devastating consequences, from customer dissatisfaction to financial losses and regulatory scrutiny. The ability to assess, prevent, and recover from application failures is critical to the success of organizations and the global economy.

Join us for an exclusive webinar and demo session to explore advanced solutions that empower organizations to achieve unparalleled digital resilience. Discover how cutting-edge technologies can help you secure, optimize, and automate applications and APIs across multiple data centers, clouds, and hybrid environments—ensuring high availability, scalability, and robust protection.

In this webinar, you will learn how to:
- Secure and optimize any applications and APIs across multiple data centers, clouds and hybrid environments
- Enhance security and protect against evolving threats
- Simplify management and automation, reducing operational complexity
- Gain real-time visibility and analytics in a single management console

Don't miss this opportunity to learn how we can help your organization stay resilient, secure, and ahead in today’s digital landscape.

Strengthening Digital Resilience: Optimize and Protect Applications Across Hybrid Environments

In today’s fast-paced digital ecosystem, APIs are the unsung heroes, enabling seamless integration and communication across various services and platforms. However, with great connectivity comes great responsibility – the responsibility to protect these vital interfaces from ever-evolving threats.Introducing Our Exclusive Webinar: API Security Going Beyond Discovery with Comprehensive Protection.

Join us for an insightful webinar that peels back the layers of API security to reveal the complexities of protecting your APIs.

What you will learn:
- Identify and Mitigate API Vulnerabilities: Understand the most pervasive API vulnerabilities that compromise systems and learn how to effectively mitigate them.
- Advanced Security Measures: Dive into critical security measures and control mechanism for APIs.
- Holistic API Visibility: Discover strategies for achieving holistic API visibility and the critical role of continuous oversight in maintaining the integrity of your API infrastructure.

Prepare to dive deep into the realm of API security, where you will gain the knowledge and tools to not just discover, but also effectively defend your APIs against sophisticated attacks.

API Security: Going Beyond Discovery with Comprehensive Protection

As financial services organizations 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 organizations are deploying AI assistance, despite data system maturity being a major barrier. The average financial services organization 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 Cindy Borovick 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.

Key takeways:
- How API Security is expanding in financial services
- The top benefits being delivered by hybrid, multicloud deployments
- Where lagging automation threatens AI success

Navigating AI and API Challenges in Financial Services Insights from the 2024 State of Application Strategy Report

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.

Get Zero-Trust App Access with F5 BIG-IP Next

The API landscape in APAC is booming, but are you keeping up with the latest trends and happenings? In collaboration with our research partner, Twimbit, our latest report, "2024 Strategic Insights: API Security in APAC", dives deep into the unique security challenges faced by organizations in the region.

Join us in this webinar together with our analysts from Twimbit, Nitin Acharekar and Sanjana Bangia, where we will learn more about:

Top API Security Risk Concerns in APAC, using OWASP Top 10 API Security Risks as a reference point
APAC organization’s key priorities in an API Security Lifecycle
Emerging Solutions for Enhanced Protection: Our report reveals one in five APAC organizations look to AI/ML-powered solutions to tackle API security challenges. Gain a better understanding of APAC organizations with regards to their current API security posture.

We are also excited to welcome Suresh Srinivasan, Group Head - Cyber Security & Data Privacy at Axiata, for an insightful conversation on the evolving API security landscape and best practices in the industry.

2024 Strategic Insights: API Security in APAC

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.

Simple, fast, and secure encrypted threat protection with F5 BIG-IP Next SSL Orchestrator

Is your firewall ready for the future? Join this webinar session to discover the power and advantages of the next generation of F5 web application firewall (WAF). The F5 BIG-IP Next Web Application Firewall (WAF) addresses web app security by keeping pace with the always-evolving application threat landscape.

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.

Register your webinar spot today!

Optimize Your WAF with speed and simplicity

Are you looking to enhance the performance, security, and efficiency of your NGINX deployments? Look no further!

We are excited to invite you to our upcoming webinar, "NGINX Uncomplicated: Security, Visibility & Automation". This session is designed to demystify the complexities of NGINX and empower you with the knowledge to take your applications to the next level.

What to Expect:
Discover how to unify security controls and increase system visibility.
Learn from expert speakers about using NGINX Instance Manager.
Gain insights on the best practices for NGINX deployment and management.
Explore practical techniques to embrace automation for a more resilient platform.
Who Should Attend: This webinar is perfect for Platform Architects & Engineers, DevOps teams, and system administrators who are serious about optimizing their NGINX management strategies.

Takeaways: By the end of the webinar, you'll have a comprehensive understanding of:
Security best practices for NGINX environments.
Monitoring and logging tools that provide actionable insights.
Automation techniques to streamline deployments and save resources.
Whether you're fine-tuning your setup or just starting out, this webinar will pave the way for a more efficient and confident approach to application delivery.

Register now to secure your spot and join a community of professionals committed to excellence in NGINX management.

NGINX Uncomplicated: Security, Visibility, and Automation

F5 commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a study to investigate how businesses are leveraging Distributed Cloud Services and in particular the net returns they are experiencing post deployment. In this insightful webinar, we will explore the positive economic impacts of Distributed Cloud Services across multiple dimensions, including:

- Optimizing Cloud Infrastructure Resilience
- Enhancing the Software Development Lifecycle
- Boosting Overall Staff Productivity

Join us for an engaging session featuring guest speaker from Forrester—Consultant, Xin Tao. She will share the findings and explain how advanced modeling techniques and market insights were used to assess the return on investment (ROI) that customers can achieve with F5 Distributed Cloud Services.

This is a valuable opportunity to equip your organization with the knowledge needed to make informed decisions about your cloud services investments and to maximize 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.

The Forrester Total Economic Impact™ of F5 Distributed Cloud Services

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