F5 Distributed Cloud WAF 101¶
Last updated: 2022-01-19 2:00 AM ET
F5’s Distributed Cloud SaaS Web Application Firewall (WAF) can help you mitigate application threats with an updated WAF engine that inherits the shared capabilities of F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF, and NGINX App Protect. During this hands-on lab you will learn about the following:
F5’s Distributed Cloud Platform for providing edge WAF and DDoS protection
Updates to F5 Distributed Cloud’s WAF engine that is powered by F5’s WAF engine
Hands-on lab of deploying Distributed Cloud’s WAF
Protecting existing Public IP resource via F5’s hosted Distributed Cloud WAF
Deploying Distributed Cloud WAF into a cloud provider network (AWS) to protect internal Private IP resources via F5’s Volterra WAF
Lab Environment¶
During this lab you will be using the shared Distributed Cloud Platform f5-sales-public tenant (the first lab exercise will cover how to access this environment).
The lab will also be using a AWS account where we have deployed the following resources.
NGINX webserver that is exposed to the Public internet (“Public Endpoint”)
F5 Distributed Cloud Mesh node that can be used to connect to AWS VPC (network)
NGINX webserver that only has a private IP address
During the lab exercises we will explore different methods of protecting and exposing applications/webserver that are included in the lab