Traditional firewalls (Layer 3-4) are purpose built to prevent external access to internal network resources, but these traditional firewalls offer little to no application layer protection. Threat vectors exist today at all layers of the network. Slowloris and HTTP flood attacks are examples of layer 7 attacks which would be undetected by most network firewalls. The impact of these undetected layer 7 attacks is the disruption of your mission critical application services. It is critical to protect at all layers and not just at the traditional network layers.

Join F5 Networks and Carahsoft for a discussion and a hands-on lab with F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM). This Web Application Firewall running on F5 BIG-IP shields your applications from the top 10 most common web threats, as well as many others. Early detection through the use of security intelligence tools has a significant impact on reducing hacker effectiveness. If you are considering deploying applications on-prem or in a public or private cloud environment, learn how F5 can provide L4-L7 application protection and meet your requirements for a Web Application Firewall.

The hands-on labs will focus on: