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On this Weekly Update, we introduce Jill Durand and do a brief Q&A with her. Jill is one of our teammates who focuses on F5 Cloud Services. She is a resource that has been working with our customers to educate them on F5’s SaaS offerings.

We will continue to run the Subscriber Giveaway contest through the coming weeks!

Upcoming Live Stream

New F5 CLI and SDK

• https://devcentral.f5.com/s/articles/Introducing-the-F5-CLI-Easy-button-for-the-F5-Automation-Toolchain

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KGPCeZex6A&feature=youtu.be

• No development expertise required

DevCentral Connects – Replay from April 23

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0wdtAk7AZA

Mika Yamamoto on Renegade Podcast, talking about her journey to F5

• https://renegade.com/resources-story-hub/podcasts/podcast/why-cmos-should-be-cxos-too/

BIG-IQ 7.1 just released

• Release notes:

• https://techdocs.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-iq-centralized-mgmt/releasenotes/product/relnote-big-iq-central-mgmt-7-1-0.html

BIG-IP Edge Client Operations Guide

• https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K63942460

Back by popular demand! APM Best Practices Webinar

• April 28th at 8am PDT

Shape Webinar: Attacks and Fraud in Uncertain Times

• April 30, 11am PDT

Average bandwidth of DDoS attacks increasing

• https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2020/04/20/ddos-attacks-increasing/

High severity OpenSSL attack to be aware of

• https://www.securityweek.com/high-severity-vulnerability-openssl-allows-dos-attacks

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This week we announce a subscriber giveaway. And Buu also goes through Q&A!

DevCentral Content:

Recent DevCentral Live Streams:

April 16: Waiting Room via iRules, Security Response Hyperbole, & Q&A Post of the Week

– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-d7KdTGDxY

April 9: Remote Access with F5 BIG-IP APM

– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02UsdE0h-ZQ

New DevCentral Videos:

3x videos on how to review your log files (tmsh, bash, config utility)

– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2kVEE2SjIU

– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wpMa4K6-gA

– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BQZOgS10wo

VPN Split Tunneling overview

– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25maiR0IeRw

Renewing existing SSL certs and keys

– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU3C8W25vvE

RDP using an SSL VPN

– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOytvWA0ZQw

Tech News:

K9412: The BIG-IP Release Matrix Includes builds, release dates, supported platforms, EUD & AOM versions.

– https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K9412

Attack Signature Update (ASU) file for Advanced WAF and ASM versions 11.6.x, 12.1.x, 13.1.x, 14.1.x, and 15.x.

– https://buzz.f5.com/kS1hT0470CO02MK5mz0RT0C

APM News:

Using APM for BIG-IP Management Access

– https://techdocs.f5.com/en-us/bigip-14-0-0/big-ip-local-traffic-manager-implementations-14-0-0/implementing-apm-system-authentication.html

K82063753: BIG-IP APM v15.1 (and later) with Modern Customization does not support DUO logon page integration.

– https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K82063753

– According to F5 Support, the Duo engineering department is looking into updating their code to work with the new framework

NGINX News:

NGINX Controller v3.3.0 is RTW

– https://docs.nginx.com/nginx-controller/releases/#nginx-controller-version-3-3-0

– Bug fixes and improvements.

– Adds support for certificate chains for TLS connections.

– Adds an API catalog for the Metrics API.

– Adds new dimensions for filtering metrics on the Application Summary page.

NGINX Service Mesh with Alan Murphy, on the Software Engineering Daily Podcast

– https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/04/16/nginx-service-mesh-with-alan-murphy/

Training:

Free F5 Training Courses, “F5 Getting Started Series”  As we engage with customers virtually, don’t forget to share free training courses we have for customers and partners.

– https://f5.com/education/training/free-courses

Cloud, Orchestration & Automation:

F5CS Essential App Protect: Disabling Attach Signatures via API

– https://clouddocs.f5.com/cloud-services/latest/f5-cloud-services-Essential.App.Protect-FAQ.html#q-how-do-i-globally-disable-an-attack-signature

Security News:

Four Risks to Consider with Expanded VPN Deployments From F5 Labs

– https://www.f5.com/labs/articles/cisotociso/four-risks-to-consider-with-expanded-vpn-deployments

San Francisco International Airport Discloses Data Breach

– https://www.securityweek.com/san-francisco-international-airport-discloses-data-breach

Google Sees Millions of COVID-19-Related Malicious Emails Daily

– https://www.securityweek.com/google-sees-millions-covid-19-related-malicious-emails-daily

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F5/NGINX Updates

Agility 2020 Update

• General Sessions – May 12-14

NGINX Plus R21 just released

• https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-plus-r21-released

F5 Lab Regional Data covering Canada for Winter 2019

• https://www.f5.com/labs/articles/threat-intelligence/cyberthreats-targeting-canada–winter-2019

DevCentral Articles

Great article on using Okta for Identity Management and F5 for the SAML Service Provider and reverse proxy.

• https://devcentral.f5.com/s/articles/Secure-Access-to-Web-Applications-with-F5-and-Okta-using-SAML-2-0-1-of-2

DDoS articles on DevCentral by Sven Mueller

• https://devcentral.f5.com/s/articles/Concept-of-F5-Device-DoS-and-DoS-profiles

Webinars

TerraForm Webinar with Mark Menger, Justin Linn

• April 16, 10am PST

APM Best Practices Webinar Replay from April 8th

• Hosted by APM experts Corey Marshall and Chas Lesley

Industry News

Browsers delay the removal of TLS 1.0 and 1.1

• https://www.securityweek.com/browser-makers-delay-removal-tls-10-and-11-support

Google also rolling back SameSite cookie enforcement

• https://blog.chromium.org/2020/04/temporarily-rolling-back-samesite.html

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Links from the Weekly Update

New Hot Fix Releases

BIG-IP v15.0.1.3: https://techdocs.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/releasenotes/related/relnote-supplement-bigip-15-0-1-3.html

BIG-IP v15.1.0.2: https://techdocs.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/releasenotes/related/relnote-supplement-bigip-15-1-0-2.html

BIG-IP v13.1.3.3: https://techdocs.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/releasenotes/related/relnote-supplement-bigip-13-1-3-3.html

BIG-IP v14.1.2 EHF89.37-ENG for BIG-IP Virtual Edition is RTW, an engineering hotfix that is required for Common Criteria certification compliance on the 14.1.2 release

SSLO 7.2: https://techdocs.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/ssl-orchestrator/releasenotes/product/relnote-ssl-orchestrator-15-1-0-iapp-7-2.html

- Requires BIG-IP v15.1.0 or higher

- SSLO analytics enhancements, more TLS1.3 enhancements and HA enhancements

Cisco ACI Service Center App Release 2.3

- Release Notes: https://clouddocs.f5.com/f5-aci-servicecenter/latest/release-notes.html

- Download from the Cisco DC App Center

- The F5 ACI ServiceCenter enables visibility, L2-L3 stitching, and L4-L7 app services between BIG-IP and Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI).

- Video Demos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSKNMFxFwt4SBOc1BkeYtuN2vU64SV5yq

Some Noteworthy Askf5.com Articles

K70322942: Securing Network Access VPN: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K70322942

- Nice overall coverage of using F5 for SSL VPN

K05372587: BIG-IP performance check-list: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K05372587

- With the heavy usage of F5 SSL VPN, this doc has guidance on monitoring and tuning for performance

K17160: Achieving consistent high-performance on BIG-IP VE: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K17160

- This document gives recommended practices on performance tuning on Virtual Editions

Other Noteworthy F5 Articles

Scaling SSL VPN using BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager: https://devcentral.f5.com/s/articles/Scaling-SSL-VPN-using-BIG-IP-Local-Traffic-Manager-LTM

YouTube: Using Bandwidth Controller to Manage VPN Bandwidth Consumption: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4jdUMaF62g&feature=youtu.be

DevCentral Connects Live Stream on APM this Thursday!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02UsdE0h-ZQ

SSL VPN Split Tunneling for Office 365: https://devcentral.f5.com/s/articles/SSL-VPN-Split-Tunneling-and-Office-365

Industry News

Magecart Hackers Inject iFrame Skimmers in 19 Sites to Steal Payment Data:

- https://thehackernews.com/2020/04/magecart-digital-skimmer.html

- New campaign happening that has been successful against 19 e-commerce sites. Great use case for Shape Security.

Marriott says 5.2 million guests exposed in new data breach:

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-marriott-intnl-data-breach/marriott-says-5-2-million-guests-exposed-in-new-data-breach-idUSKBN21I3DC

- This time, 5.2 million guests. After the 2018 breach of 500 million guests.

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