Configuring BIG-IP Advanced WAF: Web Application Firewall

Chapter 1: Introducing the BIG-IP System

• Initially Setting Up the BIG-IP System
• Archiving the BIG-IP System Configuration
• Leveraging F5 Support Resources and Tools

Chapter 2: Traffic Processing with BIG-IP

• Identifying BIG-IP Traffic Processing Objects
• Understanding Profiles
• Overview of Local Traffic Policies
• Visualizing the HTTP Request Flow

Chapter 3: Overview of Web Application Processing

• Web Application Firewall: Layer 7 Protection
• Layer 7 Security Checks
• Overview of Web Communication Elements
• Overview of the HTTP Request Structure
• Examining HTTP Responses
• How F5 Advanced WAF Parses File Types, URLs, and Parameters
• Using the Fiddler HTTP Proxy

Chapter 4: Overview of Web Application Vulnerabilities

• A Taxonomy of Attacks: The Threat Landscape
• Common Exploits Against Web Applications

Chapter 5: Security Policy Deployments: Concepts and Terminology

• Defining Learning
• Comparing Positive and Negative Security Models
• The Deployment Workflow
• Assigning Policy to Virtual Server
• Deployment Workflow: Using Advanced Settings
• Configure Server Technologies
• Defining Attack Signatures
• Viewing Requests
• Security Checks Offered by Rapid Deployment

Chapter 6: Policy Tuning and Violations

• Post-Deployment Traffic Processing
• How Violations are Categorized
• Violation Rating: A Threat Scale
• Defining Staging and Enforcement
• Defining Enforcement Mode
• Defining the Enforcement Readiness Period
• Reviewing the Definition of Learning
• Defining Learning Suggestions
• Choosing Automatic or Manual Learning
• Defining the Learn, Alarm and Block Settings
• Interpreting the Enforcement Readiness Summary
• Configuring the Blocking Response Page

Chapter 7: Using Attack Signatures and Threat Campaigns

• Defining Attack Signatures
• Attack Signature Basics
• Creating User-Defined Attack Signatures
• Defining Simple and Advanced Edit Modes
• Defining Attack Signature Sets
• Defining Attack Signature Pools
• Understanding Attack Signatures and Staging
• Updating Attack Signatures
• Defining Threat Campaigns
• Deploying Threat Campaigns

Chapter 8: Positive Security Policy Building

• Defining and Learning Security Policy Components
• Defining the Wildcard
• Defining the Entity Lifecycle
• Choosing the Learning Scheme
• How to Learn: Never (Wildcard Only)
• How to Learn: Always
• How to Learn: Selective
• Reviewing the Enforcement Readiness Period: Entities
• Viewing Learning Suggestions and Staging Status
• Defining the Learning Score
• Defining Trusted and Untrusted IP Addresses
• How to Learn: Compact

Chapter 9: Securing Cookies and other Header Topics

• The Purpose of F5 Advanced WAF Cookies
• Defining Allowed and Enforced Cookies
• Securing HTTP headers

Chapter 10: Visual Reporting and Logging

• Viewing Application Security Summary Data
• Reporting: Build Your Own View
• Reporting: Chart based on filters
• Brute Force and Web Scraping Statistics
• Viewing Resource Reports
• PCI Compliance: PCI-DSS 3.0
• Analyzing Requests
• Local Logging Facilities and Destinations
• Viewing Logs in the Configuration Utility

• Defining the Logging Profile
• Configuring Response Logging

Chapter 11: Lab Project 1

Chapter 12: Advanced Parameter Handling

• Defining Parameter Types
• Defining Static Parameters
• Defining Dynamic Parameters
• Defining Parameter Levels
• Other Parameter Considerations

Chapter 13: Automatic Policy Building

• Defining Templates Which Automate Learning
• Defining Policy Loosening
• Defining Policy Tightening
• Defining Learning Speed: Traffic Sampling
• Defining Track Site Changes

Chapter 14: Integrating with Web Application Vulnerability Scanners

• Integrating Scanner Output
• Importing Vulnerabilities
• Resolving Vulnerabilities
• Using the Generic XML Scanner XSD file

Chapter 15: Deploying Layered Policies

• Defining a Parent Policy
• Defining Inheritance
• Parent Policy Deployment Use Cases

Chapter 16: Login Enforcement and Brute Force Mitigation

• Defining Login Pages for Flow Control
• Configuring Automatic Detection of Login Pages
• Defining Brute Force Attacks
• Brute Force Protection Configuration
• Source-Based Brute Force Mitigations
• Defining Credential Stuffing
• Mitigating Credential Stuffing

Chapter 17: Reconnaissance with Session Tracking

• Defining Session Tracking
• Configuring Actions Upon Violation Detection

Chapter 18: Layer 7 Denial of Service Mitigation

• Defining Denial of Service Attacks
• Defining the DoS Protection Profile
• Overview of TPS-based DoS Protection
• Creating a DoS Logging Profile
• Applying TPS Mitigations
• Defining Behavioral and Stress-Based Detection

Chapter 19: Advanced Bot Defense

• Classifying Clients with the Bot Defense Profile
• Defining Bot Signatures
• Defining F5 Fingerprinting
• Defining Bot Defense Profile Templates

• Defining Microservices protection

Chapter 20: Final Projects