F5
F5
Founded in 1996 with a load balancer (“BIG-IP”). This would detect when a server went down and redirect traffic to another server in the traffic group. Since then, the BIG-IP product family has grown to include:
- Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
- Application Security Manager (ASM)
- Access Policy Manager (APM)
- Advanced Filewall Manager (AFM)
- IP Intelligence (IPI)
- WebSafe
- BIG-IP DNS
BIG-IP LTM
Local Traffic Manager
DSC = Device Service Clustering i.e. “active-standby” of the BIG-IP device
BIG-IP WAF
WAF = “web application firewall”
L7 (application) in the OSI model
Parses the HTTP request
OWASP Top 10
PCI Compliance
Response rewrite/mask (e.g. detect CC numbers and mask them)