F5 Labs Threat Research

By Swante Bleakley

What's F5 Labs Threat Research about?

In this companion podcast, the 2019 F5 Labs Application Protection Report researchers examine how both apps and threats are changing, and what security practitioners can do to stay ahead of these changes.

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F5 Labs Threat Research episodes:

10.25.2019
Season 2: Episode 4 - API Attacks and New Architectures
In the fourth and final episode for 2019, Sara, Ray, and Sander talk about attacks against application programming interfaces (APIs), and how they’ve spiked in the last two years. As with the formjacking attacks discussed in Episode Two, API attacks...
10.17.2019
Season 2: Episode 3 - Access Attacks Take Top Spot
The Labs team drills down into the topic of access tier attacks, which were the single most successful attack type in the past year, according to public breach reports. These attacks, which include techniques like phishing, credential stuffing, and brute...
10.15.2019
Season 1: Episode 4 - Application Protection—Mitigating DDoS Attacks
What makes an app, really? Is application security, as we’ve known it, keeping pace with today’s threats? F5 Labs security experts spent a year researching the composition of an app, the increasingly essential role they play in today’s digital world,...
10.15.2019
Season 1: Episode 3 - Application Protection—Mitigating Risk at the Access Tier
What makes an app, really? Is application security, as we’ve known it, keeping pace with today’s threats? F5 Labs security experts spent a year researching the composition of an app, the increasingly essential role they play in today’s digital world,...
10.15.2019
Season 1: Episode 2 - Application Protection—Mitigating Risk at the App Services Tier
What makes an app, really? Is application security, as we’ve known it, keeping pace with today’s threats? F5 Labs security experts spent a year researching the composition of an app, the increasingly essential role they play in today’s digital world,...
10.15.2019
Season 1: Episode1 - Application Protection
F5 Labs security experts spent a year researching the increasingly essential role of applications with one question in mind: If organizations don’t understand all the ways attackers can compromise their applications and exploit their data, how can they possibly defend...
10.14.2019
Season 2: Episode 2 - Injection, Evolved
The Labs team dives into the subject of injection—one of the most prevalent and successful attack techniques featured in the breach notifications. Injection techniques have been around for a long time, and constituted a major finding in the 2018 report,...
10.14.2019
Season 2: Episode 1 - Methods, Easy Targets, and Breach Data
Sara begins by unpacking what’s changed in this year’s research, covering changes in personnel, data sources, and research scope. The team then turns to the first significant finding of the new research series: the discovery of widespread, unsophisticated reconnaissance campaigns...

What's F5 Labs Threat Research about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

F5 Labs Threat Research episodes:

Season 2: Episode 4 - API Attacks and New Architectures

Season 2: Episode 3 - Access Attacks Take Top Spot

Season 1: Episode 4 - Application Protection—Mitigating DDoS Attacks

Season 1: Episode 3 - Application Protection—Mitigating Risk at the Access Tier

Season 1: Episode 2 - Application Protection—Mitigating Risk at the App Services Tier

Season 1: Episode1 - Application Protection

Season 2: Episode 2 - Injection, Evolved

Season 2: Episode 1 - Methods, Easy Targets, and Breach Data