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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