DevCentral's Featured Member for November - Mohamed Salah
Our Featured Member series is a way for us to show appreciation and highlight active contributors in our community. Communities thrive on interaction and ourFeatured Seriesgives you some insight on some of our most engaged folks. F5 Community Member Mohamed Salahis our DevCentral Featured Member for November! He's been helping many other members with some great tips so let's catch up with Mohamed!DevCentral's Featured Member for December - Mohamed Kansoh
Our Featured Member series is a way for us to show appreciation and highlight active contributors in our community. Communities thrive on interaction and ourFeatured Seriesgives you some insight on some of our most engaged folks. F5 Community MemberMohamed Kansohis our DevCentral Featured Member for December! He's been helping many other members with some great tips so let's catch up with Mohamed! First, please explain to the DC community a little about yourself, what you do and why it is important. Mohamed: Well Firstly, thanks for this appreciation. This is Mohamed Kansoh, I’m Egyptian and I’m 26 years old, I’ve earned my bachelor’s degree in “Communications and Electronics” from Faculty of Engineering Menufia University since 2019. After that I worked on myself by taking more online trainings in networks and security field to be more qualified in Labor market. I started my career at the beginning of 2020 at BARQ Systems Company where was my first time to deal with F5 Products and other security Solutions. I started working with Firewalls then F5 Technologies such as BIG-IP LTM and ASM which I have found it more interesting and powerful to know and work with Specially with troubleshooting in network and security issues. At BARQ SYSTEMS I implement new F5 projects from Scratch and support our customers in their technical issues until resolved. DevCentral: You’ve been an active contributor in the DevCentral community. What keeps you involved? Mohamed: Yes, I see that F5 Community as a third hand for anyone who works with F5 technologies. When I get stuck with issues with F5, implement a new service or have any concern, I used to search for an adequate workaround, I find the clue or ideal solution at F5 Community. Also, it’s not fair to see F5 users need help or have technical concerns and I know a proper solution for them and do not reply, indeed! it’s a disappointment to see issues or technical concerns with no answer or reply even if a reply as a matter of thinking out loud. F5 Community expands my scope of knowledge, I learn much from it specially iRules and technical Articles, F5 Community adds to me every day and it keeps me updated. F5 is the closest network solution to my heart and I hope to reach the expert level with All of F5 Technologies one day! I value it and its role in networking, especially with troubleshooting, Also F5 gives you a clear vision throughout your whole network. My word to our customers “if you want a rich, secured and a high-quality network, you must implement F5 to offload your applications.“ DevCentral: Tell us a little about the technical expertise you have. Mohamed: After almost 3 years of working experience in network and Security Field, I have got experience with: Routing, switching and network design. Multiple Vendor Firewall Solutions such as: Juniper SRX Firewall. Palo-alto Firewall. Fortigate firewall. General knowledge with Forcepoint. General Knowledge with Cisco FTD. Web Applications Firewall (F5 ASM). Application Delivery controller (ADC F5 LTM). General Knowledge with Global load balancing (F5 GTM). General Knowledge with Infoblox (DNS, DHCP, IPAM) “DDIP Certified”. General knowledge with Symantec ProxySG. (Forward Proxy). DevCentral: You are a Network and Application Security at Barq Systems. Can you describe your typical workday, how you manage work/life balance and the strong support of F5 solutions? How has the recent pandemic impacted your work? Mohamed: In normal days, I engage with our customers who require to implement new services, have an issue, and need troubleshooting until it solved, start new projects from scratch (implementing, Configuring F5 appliances) till Lunching the targeted production services. Nowadays, I engage with “Telecom Egypt “Company one of the biggest ISPs Companies in Egypt, I support them in a project related to F5 Advanced WAF, I have finished the implementation and Configuration of F5 appliances and now it serves production services. In my free time outside of my work, I pass this time with my wife and my laptop beside me to check the DevCentral Community periodically. I want to see if anyone has inquiries or technical concerns and my wife sees what I do and how I’m happy when I help someone. She becomes thrilled when someone accepts my solution and she loves the right marks ✔! 😄 She encourages me so much to help others. If there are no technical concerns in the community, I study to complete my F5 certification path or reading more technical Articles. I used to play Football when I was a child, but I have given up playing football at college ☹ but still enjoy watching football matches till now. Due to Covid-19 pandemic I have worked much more from home, maybe pandemic does not affect so badly with persons who works in IT field because they can proceed in their work tasks remotely. But it impacts badly with people in other fields which they do all of their work tasks physically with their hands. I hope safety for each one and hope the world to be cleaned from this Covid-19 pandemic. DevCentral: Do you have any F5 Certifications? If so, why are these important to you and how have they helped with your career? Mohamed: Yes, I’m a certified technology specialist in Advanced WAF, I passed F5 (101, 201, 303) exams, and now I am preparing for the rest of 3xx exams specially (F5 301a and 301b). Then I target to start studying F5 GTM, APM, AFM and BigIQ. Really, it’s a disappointment to see questions in F5 Community and I can’t reply or give any solutions related to (APM, GTM or BIGIQ), I still need to be more qualified in other F5 modules. To be honest, F5 Certification improves my understanding, knowledge and self-confidence, there is a noticeable difference in my quality before and after studying and taking exams. I do not think you can support strongly F5 without reading, studying, taking notes, working alone, searching, and organizing yourself in general. Certification has made a difference in my technical personality and self-confidence when dealing with our customers, even in my work promotions! I appreciate the certifications very much and my hope is achieving the expert level of certification path one day. “Sometimes technical certificates speak instead of you and give a very good impression about you!“ DevCentral: Describe one of your biggest Customer challenges and how the community helped in that situation. (Does not necessarily have to be DevCentral) Mohamed: I do not remember a specific challenge because DevCentral Community has helped me many times, but my biggest challenges were with iRules. With navigating Devcentral community, I can say that my level in writing codes has been improved by detecting my errors in them and solve them quickly. Sometimes you don’t find your technical needs in F5 articles, and you find it easily with DevCentral so I am grateful to this community which includes helpful people. DevCentral: If you weren’t doing what you’re doing – what would be your dream career? Or better, when you were a kid – what did you want to be when you grew up? Mohamed: I aimed to be an engineer and I’m lucky to achieve my childhood dream which became my destiny, so I think that I am on the right way in my career and doing my best rather than thinking of another one. DevCentral: What are You a Force For? Mohamed:I am a force for my wife. I’m grateful to her and my parents as well. I am a force for rejecting racism and I believe in a decent life for all. ---Thanks Mohamed! The DevCentral Community really appreciate your willingness to share with our Members. Connect and Follow on Social: Mohamed on LinkedIn BARQ Systems on Twitter BARQ SYSTEMS on LinkedIn BARQ Systems WebsiteDevCentral's Featured Member for April - Mihai Cziraki
Our Featured Member series is a way for us to show appreciation and highlight active contributors in our community. Communities thrive on interaction and ourFeatured Seriesgives you some insight on some of our most engaged folks. DevCentral MVPMihai Czirakiis our Featured Member for April 2023! He's been helping lots of other members with some great tips so let's catch up with Mihai! DevCentral: First, please explain to the DevCentral Community a little about yourself, what you do and why it is important. Mihai: I am a Data Center Network Senior Design Engineer working for _VOIS – Vodafone Intelligent Solutions. I have been working with load-balancing/ADC for the last 8 years (with some gaps). I started my career 15 years ago as a Network Support Engineer. At some point, I started working with F5 LTM and really enjoyed it. Since then, this has been my favorite part of my job. At some point, I wish this would be all I do, ‘playing’ with these types of devices and technologies. The other part that I discovered in the last years is Automation (Ansible,Python). In my free time, I like spending time with my family(I have 2 kids), traveling, and cycling (Road and MTB) DevCentral: You’ve been an active contributor in the DevCentral community. What keeps you involved? Mihai: I really like helping people. One, because when I started working with F5 BIG-IP LTM, I found help in this forum, and Second, because I feel I need to pass on the things I've learned. It also helps me reminding things that I have not used for some time. DevCentral: Tell us a little about your technical expertise. Mihai: I started as Support Network Engineer focusing and on routing/switching, then moved to firewalls and load-balancing/ADC. I’ve worked with BIG-IP LTM (no other modules unfortunately) and then moved to Citrix Netscaler. I really like working on deploying new applications/services using these devices. Next, I was(still am) into Network Automation. I started with Bash, then Ansible, and now Python. Now I am working in DC Network Design and sometimes this involves BIG-IP LTM devices. DevCentral: You are a Senior Design Engineer at _VOIS. Can you describe your typical workday, how you manage work/life balance and the strong support of F5 solutions? How has the pandemic impacted your work? Mihai: Since the pandemic, I’ve been working only remotely and I’ve started to like it. It gives me more time by not having to travel to the office. For almost 2 years I have been working at _VOIS – Vodafone Intelligent Solutions. “_VOIS is a global, multi-functional organisation, a Centre of Excellence for Intelligent Solutions focused on adding value and delivering business outcomes for Vodafone. “ On a normal day, the first thing I do is getting my daughter to school. When I get back, I start working. I am involved in multiple projects, so I am checking every day what I can do for each project. Sometimes I work on only one project for days, other times I can do small bits on multiple projects. When I have time I check the DevCentral forum to see what issues have 0 answers. If I know how to help or have an idea, I test it in the lab environment I have at home. (I have an Intel NUC with Vmware ESXI installed and an Eve-ng VM where I have an LTM with 2 web servers in the backend.) I check the forum several times per day. Sometimes I find interesting problems that someone has already answered and that I don't know how to solve, but I'm learning from them. Working in Network Design, sometimes I get a network design that involves an F5 device usually, but we also have other vendors. These are my favorites. Usually, they are about the topology and what features they can use for the solution or an app. So I have more of a consultant role. I don’t do implementations or operations anymore. I miss working with irules/profiles, setting up virtual servers for challenging web applications, securing an app etc. (But I have my lab for this) After my job schedule ends, I pick up my son or my daughter from school/kindergarten and spend some time with both of them. DevCentral: Do you have any F5 Certifications? If so, why are these important to you and how have they helped with your career? Mihai: After 7 years of working with load-balancing technologies, last year I decided to give it a try and get a certification. So I got F5-CA, BIG-IP. I did it because I had time and I wanted to remind myself of some things I have forgotten by not using them. I believe that experience with a technology beats a certification. That’s why I was not keen to have one. Even now I feel that I have to take the next level certification because the current one does not reflect my experience with these technologies. DevCentral: Describe one of your biggest Customer challenges and how the Community helped in that situation. (Does not necessarily have to be DevCentral) Mihai: It is not a Customer challenge but more an internal request to upgrade to a new OS version. It was back in 2015 when I was struggling to convert HTTP classes back to irules, because HTTP classes were getting deprecated. Doing it manually would have taken me quite a lot of time. So I opened my first DevCentral request. One of the members helped me with a regex command to convert a file of HTTP classes to an irule. Here it is : https://community.f5.com/t5/technical-forum/http-class-to-irule-conversion/td-p/242504 The DevCentral MVP member is: StephanManthey Thanks again! 🙂 DevCentral: Lastly, if you weren’t doing what you’re doing – what would be your dream career? Or better, when you were a kid – what did you want to be when you grew up? Mihai: I really love what I am doing and I am happy that I have a job that I like. But if I really have to choose something else probably it would be something about cycling. Maybe a bike shop/service or a bicycle travel agency. ---Thanks Mihai! The DevCentral Community really appreciates your willingness to share with our Members. Connect and Follow on Social: Mihai on LinkedIn Mihai's Blog Mihai's Github _VIOS on the Web _VIOS on LinkedInDevCentral's Featured Member for March - Thomas Dahlmann
Our Featured Member series is a way for us to show appreciation and highlight active contributors in our community. Communities thrive on interaction and ourFeatured Seriesgives you some insight on some of our most engaged folks. DevCentral MVPThomas Dahlmannis our Featured Member for March 2023! He's been helping lots of other members with some great tips so let's catch up with Thomas! Plus, his birthday is this month so let's all wish him a Happy Birthday! DevCentral: First, please explain to the DC community a little about yourself, what you do and why it is important. Thomas: I am an experienced (aka old) senior security consultant who is deeply passionate about technology. I have an insatiable curiosity and am determined to fully understand the inner workings of any technology I encounter. This curiosity has led me down many rabbit holes and taken up a significant amount of my spare time, but it has also been instrumental to where I am today. I joined the security industry as a trainee at IBM in 2000 which started my journey into the world of firewalls, vpn, antivirus (yes I’m that old), mail scanners and a lot more. It was a blast. I had my first encounter with F5 in 2006 and have never looked back. It really got into my blood stream. In comparison, other technologies seem trivial and uninteresting. The F5 technology stack gives an unpresedented visibility into what goes around in the infrastructure and especially what needs to be done about it to keep bad actors out and maintain production stability. I’m told that I laugh a lot and easy to locate in a big building. DevCentral: You’ve been an active contributor in the DevCentral community. What keeps you involved? Thomas: While the F5 software stack is undeniably impressive, it can also be a daunting challenge that feels like a vertical mountain waiting to be climbed. As someone who has bumped their head and picked up painful experiences along the way, I am determined to spare others from similar struggles. I am constantly learning from DC and consider it my go-to source for knowledge and inspiration. As a result, I feel a sense of responsibility to share my insights with the community. We all stand on the shoulders of others, and I find it incredibly fulfilling to help lift others up and empower them to succeed. DevCentral: Tell us a little about the technical expertise/learning history you have. Thomas: I think, like many others, my journey started with LTM. It was a good fit for me as an infrastructure individual coming from the switching, routing, firewall world. The logic around the proxy mindset gave me a better understanding of the lower levels in the protocols as well as the higher. The more I played around with iRules the more familiar I became with HTTP and its inner workings. It was also in those days when Firepass came around and introduced me to authentication on a whole new level. When Firepass became APM the toolset just jumped to a complete new level. In the good old days before cloud and CDN, BIG-IP GTM (now called DNS) and WAM had its prime time and I also had a couple of projects with delivering content closest to the client. Again, it was an experince which got me up close and personal with HTTP and how you could trick the browser to be smarter. One of the most difficult modules to get on the wire is BIG-IP ASM/AWAF. It took me a couple of months to learn how to use the tool but many many years to master the delicate process of convincing customers that a web firewall is worth the time and show them how to operate it without the struggle. Recent time has given us Shellshock and Log4j so it has become easier to exemplify the needs for protecting the webapplications. Due to the recent geopolitical situation DDoS has shown us how vulnerable we are without proper protection, and here AFM has shown why it is there. It is quite satisfying to watch a DDoS attack just being swept away without interfering with production. As the F5 environment becomes bigger and more complex, I have used more and more time on finding ways to automate and work smarter. This is why I started my Let's Encrypt integration automation scripts. A lot of time goes into this simple but important task and saving just a couple of minutes every day really counts. This scripting focus also talks natually into the way clouds work and how you fx operate thousands of domains in F5 Distributed Cloud. A lot of what is required of us today is simply too dynamic to be operated manually. Fortunately, the F5 software stack has consistently proven to be a reliable and effective solution for meeting these needs. DevCentral: You are a Senior Security Consultant at Orange Cyberdefense. Can you describe your typical workday, how you manage work/life balance and the strong support of F5 solutions? How has the pandemic impacted your work? Thomas: My job is multiroled and besides working as a consultant I also have a dozen consultants reporting to me. So, a typical week is split between nursing my consultants, administrative tasks, interfacing with the business and helping out customers. When I work as a consultant my assignments are split into projects and ad-hoc tasks. Balancing all of these responsibilities can be a delicate task, as it is important to ensure that I don't burn out. Luckily I'm a soccer dad which forces me to clock-out and stand on the sideline of the soccer fields or shuttle the kids around the country for matches. There is nothing like mother nature teaching you about themodynamics of the northern hemisphere (freezing your extremities off) to clear you mind. To sharpen my F5 skills I have created my own mini datacenter back home. I run my own mail infrastructure and various other services. Most of these services are tied in behind some sort of F5 product, BigIP or NGINX. This forces me to be eating my own dogfood and is a perfect testbed for solutions my customers are looking for or I can build new crazy constructions for inspriation. It is simply the best way of learning how it all works. Now looking back at the previous 2-3 years of Covid I feel a lot has changed and a lot stays the same. The nature of the pandemic has forced us to think differently, and for some to brake habbits. For some it is now possible to be working remotely which was unheard of before. This flexibility has really given possibilities and made the world a bigger place. It has also shown to me that I really need to be close to people and I how much I thriwe in a crowd. I feel we lost out on a lot of oppotunities because of the distance and people were harder to reach. Nothing beats a room with a whiteboard and a lot of coffee. I think were are slowly finding a new balance between interacting physcially and working remotely. DevCentral: Do you have any F5 Certifications? If so, why are these important to you and how have they helped with your career? Thomas: Yes, I'm a 401 CSE. There are two specific reasons as to why I hold this certification. First one is to keep our partner level, we must hold a certain amount certified consultants. The second one is to prove to customers that I can more than spell to F5. You become more trustworthy with this badge. I have always been in the partner channel so certifications were mandatory. What I have come to realize is that being forced to prepare for these certifications actually gets you through documentation you otherwise wouldn't have. Everytime I do this I pick up new knowledge, niche or sometimes groundbraking. So it isn't all bad. DevCentral: Describe one of your biggest Customer challenges and how the community helped in that situation. Thomas: Recalling all the times I've frantically searched for a small detail that ultimately saved the day is a challenge. However, it's often those little things that make a significant difference. I see the big strength of the community in that you always have access to a solution, part of it or inspiration for it. This ubiquitous access to knowledge for everyone is what sets F5 apart from all others. If I shall highlight a single event I think I will select a situation where one of my customers was suffering from DDoS attacks that we needed to fix - fast. A search on DC gave me a skeleton for an iRule. Our requirements where somewhat more demanding than what we could find, but by giving us the inspiration the iRule grew from 20 lines to beyond 600. This iRule is now in my standard toolbelt against DDoS and is slowly expanding everytime attacks comes in or the customer environments changes. It has proven its worth and is now protecting numerous customers in different industries. A true testament to the power of the community. DevCentral: Lastly, if you weren’t doing what you’re doing – what would be your dream career? Or better, when you were a kid – what did you want to be when you grew up? Thomas: When it comes to my career path it has always been easy - something with IT. Observing others as they struggle to find their way, I feel immensely privileged by how effortlessly my own journey has unfolded. I don't think I have ever dreamed of being anything else, boring I know. Should I have chosen another path, I think I would have chosen a military career. Ironically, when I look at my daily life today, I can't help but feel that I chose a non-kinetic military path, as I find myself entrenched in protecting customers from cyber attacks. ---Thanks Thomas! The DevCentral Community really appreciates your willingness to share with our Members. Connect and Follow on Social: Thomas on LinkedIn Thomas' Website Thomas' Mastedon Handle Orange Cyberdefense on LinkedIn Orange Cyberdefense on TwitterDevCentral's Featured Member for February - Edouard Zorrilla
Our Featured Member series is a way for us to show appreciation and highlight active contributors in our community. Communities thrive on interaction and ourFeatured Seriesgives you some insight on some of our most engaged folks. DevCentral MVPEdouard Zorrillais our Featured Member for February! He's been helping many other members with some great tips so let's catch up with Edouard! DevCentral: First, please explain to the DC community a little about yourself, what you do and why it is important. Edouard: I am a Professional Engineer licensed in the Province of Alberta, Canada. I have been working in the IT industry for over 20 years now. I am specialized in the Network Security scope. That being said, I like working in the Network Security because keeping information safe it is important for organizations our communities as well. DevCentral: You’ve been an active contributor in the DevCentral community. What keeps you involved? Edouard: I find the community to be a good place to find answers and knowledge. There is also people with plenty experience willing to help other members and share their experience. DevCentral: Tell us a little about the technical expertise you have. Edouard: I have been working in the IT sector for over 20 years now, and in F5 Networks technologies for the last 10 years. DevCentral: You are a Network Analyst at ASEBP. Can you describe your typical workday, how you manage work/life balance and the strong support of F5 solutions? How has the recent pandemic impacted your work? Edouard: My typical workday is basically to enhance the security posture at our organization. The F5 Infrastructure has proven to be very flexible and capable to meet our expectations. The pandemic has basically moved all employees working remotely, and now most of the staff continue working remotely using F5 security gateways to terminate the SSL VPN tunnel. DevCentral: Do you have any F5 Certifications? If so, why are these important to you and how have they helped with your career? Edouard: I have my F5 DNS certification recently achieved. Those certifications have been a factor to advance on my career while showing the employers that I am capable to support and manage their networks. That is why I now plan to challenge the BIG-IP ASM exam DevCentral: Describe one of your biggest Customer challenges and how the community helped in that situation. (Does not necessarily have to be DevCentral) Edouard: One of the biggest challenges we had was to provide a fast and secure VPN access when the pandemic broke. We had been able to accomplish those requirements using BIG-IP APM. DevCentral: Lastly, if you weren’t doing what you’re doing – what would be your dream career? Or better, when you were a kid – what did you want to be when you grew up? Edouard: When I saw the Star Wars saga, I wanted to build those star ships. That seemed to be very exciting. ---Thanks Edouard! The DevCentral Community really appreciate your willingness to share with our Members. Connect and Follow on Social: Edouard on LinkedIn ASEBP on LinkedIn ASEBP on TwitterDevCentral Content Highlights
New to DevCentral and curious about what we're all about? Below you'll find a list of some of our most popular content to get your started! Table of contents: Articles: Some highlights from community: Lightboard Lesson videos (appx 10 minutes each): Livestream shows (30-60 minutes each): Articles: What Is BIG-IP? #The101: Introduction to F5 Technology and Terms Getting Started With iRules article series iRules Editor with Visual Studio Code Layer 4 vs Layer 7 DoS Attack Mitigating New Gadget Leveraging JNDI Injection into Remote Code Execution Using Advanced WAF Understanding IPSec IKEv1 negotiation on Wireshark How to Get a F5 Trial or Lab License Get Started with BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE), BIG-IQ VE or BIG-IP Cloud Edition Trial Some highlights from community: BigIP Report Inserting SSL client certificate into the header of the HTTP session How to Check logs on F5 for troubleshooting purpose Lightboard Lesson videos (appx 10 minutes each): LTM Load Balancing Algorithms: Round Robin, Ratio, & Dynamic Ratio HTTP Cookie SameSite Attribute CPU Hyper-Threads & TMM Elliptic Curve Cryptography Overview 2021 OWASP Top Ten: Injection Livestream shows (30-60 minutes each): DevCentral Connects: Extending VS Code DevCentral Connects: AS3 Config Converter DevCentral Connects: Prepare to D.I.E. DevCentral Connects: The SHAPE of Things An Inside Look at the MITRE ATT&CK FrameworkDevCentral ICYMI - September 2024
DevCentral publishes new content constantly, and it’s easy to miss the latest from F5’s technical user community with all that turnover. So here’s a monthly round-up of DevCentral news, content, and events—in case you missed it! New and Notable Share Your Expertise at F5 AppWorld 2025! CFP is now open. F5 and NetApp partnership for Large Language Model AI deployments - F5 and NetApp have teamed up to improve enterprise AI capabilities by using F5’s secure multicloud networking solutions with NetApp’s data management tools. Experience the power of F5 NGINX One with feature demos - Introducing F5 NGINX One, a powerful solution designed to significantly enhance business operations with its high-performance data plane and user-friendly SaaS-based console, offering robust traffic management and critical monitoring features. Content Round-Up AI/LLM F5 BIG-IP and NetApp StorageGRID - Providing Fast and Scalable S3 API for AI apps - F5 BIG-IP's advanced load balancing improves HTTPS server performance. It ensures high availability and optimal storage node utilization when used with NetApp's StorageGRID S3 compatible object storage. How to Prepare Your Network Infrastructure to Add HPC Clusters for AI to Your Data Center - HPC AI cluster integration in enterprise data centers brings challenges, such as network segmentation, security, and high costs. Learn how to overcome these challenges. F5 Distributed Cloud: How I Did it - Migrating Applications to Nutanix NC2 with F5 Distributed Cloud Secure Multicloud Networking - Enterprises struggle to scale and migrate applications while maintaining consistent security and user experience. F5 Distributed Cloud Services (XC) simplifies extending and migrating applications from on-premises environments to Nutanix NC2 clusters, backed by Nutanix's comprehensive hyper-converged infrastructure. Security Insights What is Web Cache Exploitation? - Explore insights from a recent BlackHat/DefCon 2024 presentation on Web Cache Exploitation, which reveals how discrepancies in HTTP server and proxy behaviors can lead to vulnerabilities like Web Cache Poisoning and Web Cache Deception. (HTTP) Redirection via Arbitrary Host Header - In this article, we delve into the importance of the Host header in web requests, its role in enabling multiple-domain hosting, and the potential security risks associated with improper handling. How to Identify and Manage Scrapers (Pt. 1) and How to Identify and Manage Scrapers (Pt. 2) - Here are different ways to find and manage web scraping activities. This includes: scrapers that identify themselves, identifying using IP address, more advanced techniques for finding scrapers that don't identify themselves. We will also talk about the challenges caused by pretending to be someone else and the increase in scraping done by AI. Exploring the Zero Trust Models of AWS, Microsoft, and Google - In response to distributed workforces and advanced cyber threats, the Zero Trust Model enforces strict identity verification, granular access control, and continuous monitoring for users, devices, and resources. Major cloud providers like AWS, Microsoft, and Google have their own versions. Scanning for CVE-2017-9841 Drops Precipitously - The July 2024 Sensor Intelligence Series reports a significant drop in scanning activities for vulnerabilities CVE-2017-9841 and CVE-2023-1389, despite their previous high levels. This highlights the importance of ongoing cybersecurity vigilance. Scuba Gear from CISA, ROBLOX Malware Campaign, and RUST backdoo-rs This Week in Security Leaks & breaches, memory-safe C++, cryptominers and bridging the air-gap This Week in Security GC Document AI Transitive Access Abuse, make-me-root holes in VMWare fixed and more - This Week in Security BIG-IP Next: How to secure egress with F5 Service Proxy for Kubernetes (Japanese language version: 次世代のBIG-IP SPKとK8s コンテナの外部アクセス制御) - Securing Kubernetes egress traffic can be challenging. F5's Service Proxy for Kubernetes (SPK) offers a solution. It dynamically manages egress through its Calico egress gateway. This allows for central control, consistent network policies, and source NAT translation. BIG-IP Next Installation Guides - These resources will walk you through the initial steps of getting Central Manager and instances installed on the various platforms for labs and production. F5 Distributed Cloud: How I Did it - Migrating Applications to Nutanix NC2 with F5 Distributed Cloud Secure Multicloud Networking -Enterprises face challenges with scaling and migrating applications. F5 Distributed Cloud Services (XC) helps by enabling seamless application extension and migration, as shown with Nutanix NC2 clusters. Architecture Options for Kubernetes Service Discovery in Distributed Cloud - F5 Distributed Cloud (XC) Virtual Edition Customer Edge increases service discovery in Kubernetes clusters, allowing easy connectivity in dynamic microservices environments. Cascading Configs Tool for F5 Distributed Cloud Managed Service Provider (MSP) and Delegated Access Customers - The new XC-Cascading-Configs tool simplifies configuration management for F5 Distributed Cloud customers. It allows efficient push and maintenance of shared configurations across multiple tenants. NGINX: Deploying F5 NGINX Plus Graviton-powered Containers as AWS ECS Fargate Tasks - Amazon's Graviton4 chip offers great price-performance for cloud architects. NGINX Plus works with ARM64, ECS, and ECS Fargate. It's easy to set up, use, and scale within AWS. Announcing F5 NGINX Gateway Fabric 1.4.0 with IPv6 and TLS Passthrough - NGINX Gateway Fabric 1.4.0 features IPv6 support, TLS passthrough, server zone metrics, custom pod annotations, and improved testing automation. It ensures stability and performance for Kubernetes clusters. BIG-IP: F5 BIG-IP deployment with Red Hat OpenShift - keeping client IP addresses and egress flows - OpenShift 4.14's AdminPolicyBasedExternalRoute improves control of egress traffic by utilizing F5 BIG-IP as the default gateway for certain namespaces. This feature ensures client IP preservation and integrates security functions. BIG-IP VE in Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization - Running BIG-IP VE in Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization connects virtual machines and Kubernetes. This simplifies management and operations by using OpenShift's KubeVirt and QEMU+KVM Linux virtualization layers. VMware to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Migration - Seamlessly migrate workloads and BIG-IP Virtual Editions from VMware to OpenShift Virtualization. Our comprehensive guide will streamline your transition and unify your application infrastructure. F5 Cloud Failover Extension (CFE), private endpoints, and custom DNS - Using the F5 Cloud Failover Extension (CFE) for API-based failover in public cloud environments can cause issues with API calls being blocked. This is due to custom DNS settings and private endpoints. To resolve this, configure DNS settings to properly resolve private IP addresses.Remember your first stack?
Do you remember your first stack? Maybe you got lucky and had a chance to build your first stack from the ground up, with ample time and resources. Your stack was flexible, efficient, and modern, with everything you need, and nothing you don’t. Maybe you inherited a stack that was built when your company’s business was really different…and managing security and updates takes enough time and resources that you never quite got around to upgrading the system to meet current business needs. Maybe your first stack showed just how many people had been involved in its development over the years, with idiosyncratic workarounds to allow integration of older and more modern tech. As you’ve moved from role to role, you’ve probablynoticed that every stack is different, featuring a unique combination of elements that reflect the current and historical needs of the business…and a unique set of app and API security and delivery needs to match. At F5, we’ve noticed that, too - That’s whywe’ve worked hard to build a set of security and delivery solutions that can work on any architecture. That’s also why we created the Frankenstacks—these colorful stacks are meant to bring to life the unique architectures our customers have built and to represent the creative solutions those architectures include. So, go ahead Choose a new Frankenstack avatar. (You can even pick one that reps your real-life stack.) Tell us what you remember about your first stack. And remember that whatever you’ve built, we secure that.'Monitoring for Everyone' Next Time on DevCentral Connects
It's early, a storms rolling in and you just want to stay in bed. I get it. But who's keeping an eye on your systems when you want to smash that snooze button for the third time? Monitoring! That's who! If done right, monitoring can catch the unexpected, but also help predict the expected. Join us Tuesday, March 14th, 8:30AM Pacific as buulamwelcomes Ryan McLean. He's a Developer Advocate with Datadog and he'll tell us all about, ‘LET’S USE RED’ so that monitoring can benefit everyone. This linksets your reminder that DevCentral Connects is live every Tuesday, 8:30AM Pacific. It's not that bad out. Get up and subscribe. And, while you're at it, join the DevCentral Connects Group!DevCentral Visits - GovWare Conference and Exhibition 2022 - Singapore - October 18 - 20, 2022
For those of you in the Asia region,buulam(me but in the third person so I can tag myself😁) will be checking out GovWare 2022 in Singapore! GovWare is Asia's Premier Cybersecurity event. It draws close to 10,000 attendees from over 50 countries! It takes place October 18 - 20. I'll be putting out a lot of the content that you're hopefully getting used to seeing when DevCentral Visits an event. Also, Singapore is a major tech hub in Asia so I'm hoping to show some of that to our audience. I'm also really looking forward to featuring the uniqueness of F5's presence in Asia. We have a major office there and many of our brightest people and thought leaders are based in Singapore. You can be sure that I'm aiming to get a lot of face time with them. Stay tuned!
