This week we were joined by Peter Scheffler. Peter is a Cybersecurity Solutions Architect and many of you will recognize him from his numerous trips to BC for meetings and User Group meetings.

 

Live Streams

Buu’s Hour: Cloud Edition

Tuesday May 19, 1:00pm PDT

F5 Agility 2020 Recap with John Wagnon and Jason Rahm from DevCentral

https://www.youtube.com/embed/2wI3-24Wow4

Buu’s Hour: Community Edition

Thursday May 21, 2:30pm PDT

Co-founder and CEO of Cmd, Jake King

https://youtu.be/XV_troHl4vw

F5 News

BIG-IP 14.1.2.5 was released

– https://techdocs.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/releasenotes/related/relnote-supplement-bigip-14-1-2-5.html

New Attack Signatures for ASM and AWAF

– https://downloads.f5.com/esd/productlines.jsp

Updates to BIG-IQ 7.1 Quick Start

– A few fixes introduced

– https://github.com/f5devcentral/f5-big-iq-trial-quick-start

F5 Agility 2020 Replays Are Available

– F5agility.com

Webinars

Choices that scale – evaluating tech in a time of rapid change

– June 4, 2020 – 10am PDT

– With Tim Wagner, Yossi Rosenboim, Jon Calalang, Heath Parrot, Teri Patrick

– https://www.f5.com/company/events/webinars/choices-that-scale-evaluating-tech-in-a-time-of-rapid-change

– What’s changed about how organizations make technology solution choices?

– Criteria you can use to minimize operational risk.

– Conversations that need to happen between teams when evaluating solutions.

– How systems, table stakes, and baselines should figure into your decision making.

– How to make sure the tech choices you make scale.

Tackle Rising Fraud and Abuse: App Security to Defend Your Online Business

– May 28, 10am PDT

– Brian Uffelman and Mark Campbell

– https://www.f5.com/company/events/webinars/tackle-rising-fraud-and-abuse-app-security-to-defend-your-online-business

– Detection and mitigation from vulnerability exploits to denial-of-service attacks

– Better application performance and uptime

– Measurable cost savings for hosting and bandwidth costs

– Slashed losses due to fraud and abuse

Protect Users, Apps, and Data from Encrypted Threats with CISCO and F5

– May 27, 10am PDT

– Kevin Gallaugher and folks from Cisco and Insight

– https://www.f5.com/c/amer-2020/webinar/protect-users-f5-cisco-security-may

– Combining Cisco Firepower Threat Defense and Web Security Appliance with F5 SSL Orchestrator

– Common pain points of dealing with encrypted traffic

– New ways of managing and solving encrypted traffic blind spots and encrypted threat mitigation

Industry News

Terraform BIG-IP Provider v1.2.0 released

– https://clouddocs.f5.com/products/orchestration/terraform/latest/

15 Most Interesting Cloud Native Trends From The CNCF Survey

– Interesting insights on what cloud native technologies are most in use right now

– https://www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv/2020/03/04/15-most-interesting-cloud-native-trends-from-the-cncf-survey/#2fcfd30334d5

Introducing the CDK for Kubernetes, a New Software Development Framework and Open Source Project for Defining Kubernetes Applications Using Code

– Should make life a lot easier for those of you who despise YAML

– https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/05/introducing-the-cdk-for-kubernetes-a-new-software-development-framework-and-open-source-project-for-defining-kubernetes-applications-using-code/

Leveraging automation to maximize security budgets

– https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2020/05/11/maximize-security-budgets/

U.S Defense Warns of 3 New Malware Used by North Korean Hackers

– Advisory released by the CISA, FBI and DoD

– https://thehackernews.com/2020/05/fbi-north-korean-malware.html

HTTP Status Codes Command This Malware How to Control Hacked Systems

– https://thehackernews.com/2020/05/malware-http-codes.html

 

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Daryl Montgomery and Buu Lam are the F5 Account Team covering valued clients in British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut. Their weekly show covers recent topics in the wo