F5 Networks - Configuring BIG-IP ASM - Application Security Manager v13.x

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The BIG-IP Application Security Manager course provides participants with the expertise needed to detect, mitigate, and prevent HTTP-based attacks on web applications.

 

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Who Should Attend

This course is intended for network administrators, operators, and engineers responsible for managing the normal day-to-day operation and administration of a BIG-IP application delivery network.

Course Objectives

    After course completion, participants will be able to differentiate between negative and positive security models, and configure the most appropriate protection for their own web applications.

Agenda

1 - SETTING UP THE BIG-IP SYSTEM
  • Introducing the BIG-IP System
  • Initially Setting Up the BIG-IP System
  • Archiving the BIG-IP System Configuration
  • Leveraging F5 Support Resources and Tools
2 - TRAFFIC PROCESSING WITH BIG-IP
  • Identifying BIG-IP Traffic Processing Objects
  • Overview of Network Packet Flow
  • Understanding Profiles
  • Overview of Local Traffic Policies and ASM
  • HTTP Request Flow
  • Chapter Resources
3 - WEB APPLICATION CONCEPTS
  • Overview of Web Application Request Processing
  • Web Application Are Vulnerable Even with SSL
  • Layer 7 Protection with Web Application Firewalls
  • Overview of Web Communication Elements
  • Parsing URLs
  • Overview of the HTTP Request Structure
  • Method: Perform Actions on a Server
  • HTTP Methods ASM Accepts by Default
  • Comparing POST with GET
  • Risks Within Other Methods
  • Methods Enforcement for URLs
  • HTTP Response Codes
  • Examining HTTP Responses
  • HTTPUser Input Forms: Free Text Input
  • User Input Forms: Free Text Input
  • How ASM Parses File Types, URLs, and Parameters
  • Using the Fiddler HTTP Proxy
  • Chapter Resources
4 - COMMON WEB APPLICATION VULNERABILITIES
  • Common Exploits Against Web Applications
5 - SECURITY POLICY DEPLOYMENT
  • Comparing Positive and Negative Security Models
  • Deployment: Combining Positive and Negative Security
  • The Deployment Workflow
  • Policy Type: How Will the Policy Be Applied
  • Policy Template: Determines the Level of Protection
  • Policy Templates: Automatic or Manual Policy Building
  • Deployment Workflow: Advanced Settings
  • Viewing Requests
  • Security Checks Offered by Rapid Deployment
  • Response Checks Using Data Guard
  • Chapter Resources
6 - POLICY TUNING AND VIOLATIONS
  • Post-Deployment Traffic Processing
  • Defining Violations
  • Defining False Positives
  • How Violations are Categorized
  • Violation Rating: A Threat Scale
  • Defining Staging and Enforcement
  • Defining Enforcement Mode
  • Defining the Enforcement Readiness Period
  • Defining 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 Resources
7 - ATTACK SIGNATURES
  • Defining Attack Signatures
  • Creating User-Defined Attack Signatures
  • Defining Attack Signature Sets
  • Defining Attack Signature Pools
  • Updating Attack Signatures
  • Understanding Attack Signatures and Staging
  • Chapter Resources
8 - POSITIVE SECURITY POLICY BUILDING
  • Defining Security Policy Components
  • Defining the Wildcard
  • The Entity Staging 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
  • Violations Without Learning Suggestions
  • Defining the Learning Score
  • Defining Trusted and Untrusted IP Addresses
  • How to Learn: Compact
  • Chapter Resources
9 - COOKIES AND OTHER HEADERS
  • ASM Cookies: What to Enforce
  • Defining Allowed and Enforced Cookies
  • Configuring Security Processing on HTTP headers
  • Chapter Resources
10 - REPORTING AND LOGGING
  • Reporting: Build Your Own View
  • Reporting: Chart based on filters
  • Brute Force and Web Scraping Statistics
  • Viewing ASM Resource Reports
  • PCI Compliance: PCI-DSS 3.0
  • Generating a Security Events Report
  • Viewing Traffic Learning Graphs
  • Local Logging Facilities and Destinations
  • Viewing Logs in the Configuration Utility
  • Logging Profiles: Build What You Need
  • Chapter Resources
11 - LAB PROJECT
12 - USER ROLES AND POLICY MODIFICATION
  • Defining User Roles
  • Defining ASM User Roles
  • Defining Partitions
  • Configuring User Partition Access
  • Comparing Security Policies with Policy Diff
  • Merging Security Policies
  • Editing and Exporting Security Policies
  • Restoring with Policy History
  • Examples of ASM Deployment Types
  • ConfigSync and ASM Security Data
  • ASMQKVIEW: Provide to F5 Support for Troubleshooting
  • Chapter Resources
13 - ADVANCED PARAMETER HANDLING
  • Defining Parameter Types
  • Defining Static Parameters
  • Defining Dynamic Parameters
  • Defining Dynamic Parameter Extraction Properties
  • Defining Parameter Levels
  • Other Parameter Considerations
  • Chapter Resources
14 - APPLICATION-READY TEMPLATES
  • Application Templates: Pre-Configured Baseline Security
  • Chapter Resources
15 - AUTOMATIC POLICY BUILDING
  • Overview of Automatic Policy Building
  • Defining Templates Which Automate Learning
  • Defining Policy Loosening
  • Defining Policy Tightening
  • Defining Learning Speed: Traffic Sampling
  • Defining Track Site Changes
  • Chapter Resources
16 - WEB APPLICATION VULNERABILITY SCANNERS
  • Integrating Scanner Output Into ASM
  • Will Scan be Used for a New or Existing Policy?
  • Importing Vulnerabilities
  • Resolving Vulnerabilities
  • Using the Generic XML Scanner XSD file
  • Chapter Resources
17 - LOGIN ENFORCEMENT & SESSION TRACKING
  • Defining a Login URL
  • Login Enforcement: Time and Logout Conditions
  • Defining Session Tracking
  • Configuring Actions Upon Violation Detection
  • Session Hijacking Mitigation
  • Why Fingerprint A Client
  • Chapter Resources
18 - BRUTE FORCE AND WEB SCRAPING MITIGATION
  • Defining Anomalies
  • Mitigating Brute Force Attacks via Login Page
  • Defining Session-Based Brute Force Protection
  • Defining Dynamic Brute Force Protection
  • Defining the Prevention Policy
  • Defining Web Scraping
  • Defining Geolocation Enforcement
  • Configuring IP Address Exceptions
  • Chapter Resources
19 - LAYERED POLICIES
  • Defining a Parent Policy
  • Defining Inheritance
  • Parent Policy Deployment Use Cases
  • Chapter Resources
20 - LAYER 7 DOS MITIGATION
  • Defining Denial of Service Attacks
  • Defining DoS Profile General Settings
  • Defining Proactive Bot Defense
  • Using Bot Signatures
  • Defining TPS-based DoS Protection
  • Defining Operation Mode
  • Defining Mitigation Methods
  • Defining Behavioral and Stress-Based Detection
  • Defning Behavioral DoS
  • Chapter Resources
21 - ASM AND IRULES
  • Common Uses for iRules
  • Identifying iRule Components
  • Triggering iRules with Events
  • Defining ASM iRule Events
  • Defining ASM iRule Commands
  • Using ASM iRule Event Modes
  • Chapter Resources
22 - CONTENT PROFILES
  • Defining Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
  • Defining JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
  • Defining Content Profiles
  • The Order of Operations for URL Classification
  • Chapter Resources
23 - REVIEW AND FINAL LABS
  • Course Review Questions