CODE: F5N_BIG-AFM
LENGTH: 2 day(s)
PRICE: £1,395.00
This 2-day course uses lectures and hands-on lab exercises to give participants real-time experience in setting up and configuring the BIG-IP® Advanced Firewall Manager system.
Students are introduced to the AFM user interface, stepping through various options that demonstrate how AFM is configured to build a network firewall and to detect and protect against DoS (Denial of Service) attacks. Reporting and log facilities are also explained and used in the course labs.
Further Firewall functionality and additional DoS facilities for DNS and SIP traffic are discussed.
Course Topics
After completing this course, participants will be able to complete the following tasks:
• Configure and manage an AFM system
• Configure AFM Network Firewall in a positive or negative security model
• Configure Network Firewall to allow or deny network traffic using rules based on protocol, source, destination, geography, and other predicate types
• Prebuild firewall rules using lists and schedule components
• Enforce firewall rules immediately or test them using policy staging
• Use Packet Tester and Flow Inspector features to check network connections against your security configurations for Network Firewall, IP intelligence and DoS features
• Configure various IP Intelligence features to identify, record, allow or deny access by IP address
• Configure the Device DoS detection and mitigation feature to protect the BIG-IP device and all applications from multiple types of attack vectors
• Configure DoS detection and mitigation on a per-profile basic to protect specific applications from attack
• Use DoS Dynamic Signatures to automatically protect the system from DoS attacks based on long term traffic and resource load patterns
• Configure and use the AFM local and remote log facilities
• Configure and monitor AFM’s status with various reporting facilities
• Export AFM system reports to your external monitoring system directly or via scheduled mail
• Allow chosen traffic to bypass DoS checks using Whitelists
• Isolate potentially bad clients from good using the Sweep Flood feature
• Isolate and re-route potentially bad network traffic for further inspection using IP Intelligence Shun functionality
• Restrict and report on certain types of DNS requests using DNS Firewall
• Configure, mitigate, and report on DNS based DoS attacks with the DNS DoS facility
• Configure, mitigate, and report on SIP based DoS attacks with the SIP DoS facility
• Configure, block, and report on the misuse of system services and ports using the Port Misuse feature
• Build and configure Network Firewall rules using BIG-IP iRules
• Be able to monitor and do initial troubleshooting of various AFM functionality
This course is intended for system and network administrators responsible for the configuration and ongoing administration of a BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) system.
Prerequisites
Students must complete one of the following F5 prerequisites before attending this course:
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The following free web-based courses, although optional, will be very helpful for any student with limited BIG-IP administration and configuration experience.
The following general network technology knowledge and experience are recommended before attending any F5 Global Training Services instructor-led course:
The following course-specific knowledge and experience is suggested before attending this course:
Chapter 1: Setting up the BIG-IP System
Chapter 2: AFM Overview
Chapter 3: Network Firewall
Chapter 4: Logs
Chapter 5: IP Intelligence
Chapter 6: DoS Protection
Chapter 7: Reports
Chapter 8: DoS White Lists
Chapter 9: DoS Sweep Flood Protection
Chapter 10: IP Intelligence Shun
Chapter 11: DNS Firewall
Chapter 12: DNS DoS
Chapter 13: SIP DoS
Chapter 14: Port Misuse
Chapter 15: Network Firewall iRules
Chapter 16: Recap
Chapter 17: Additional Training and Certification
Other courses available:
F5N_BIG-LTM-CFG-3, Configuring BIG-IP LTM: Local Traffic Manager v.16.1
F5N_BIG-DNS-I, Configuring BIG-IP DNS (formerly GTM) v.16.1
F5N_BIG-AWF-CFG, Configuring F5 Advanced WAF (previously licensed as ASM) v16.1
F5N_BIG-EGW-APM, Configuring BIG-IP APM: Access Policy Manager v.16.1
F5N_BIG-IRULE-CFG, Developing iRules for BIG-IP v.16.1
F5N_BIG-TRBL-INT2, Troubleshooting BIG-IP v.16.1
Course Changes since v15
Updates for the v16.1 release are minor. Course material including student guide and labs steps have been updated to reflect the version change and for any product changes to GUI appearance and screen options.