Configuring BIG-IP AFM: Advanced Firewall Manager (TRG-BIG-AFM-CFG)

This course uses lectures and hands-on exercises to give participants real-time experience in setting up and configuring the BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) system. Students are introduced t...

- Setting up the BIG-IP System
- AFM Overview
- Network Firewall
- Logs
- IP Intelligence
- DoS Protection
- Reports
- DoS White Lists
- DoS Sweep Flood Protection
- IP Intelligence Shun
- DNS Firewall
- DNS DoS
- SIP DoS
- Port Misuse
- Network Firewall iRules
- Recap
- Additional Training and Certification

- Configure and manage an AFM system
- Configure AFM Network Firewall in a positive or negative security model
- Configure Network Firewall to allow or deny network traffic using rules based on protocol, source, destination, geography, and other predicate types
- Prebuild firewall rules using lists and schedule components
- Enforce firewall rules immediately or test them using policy staging
- Use Packet Tester and Flow Inspector features to check network connections against your security con...

This course is intended for network operators, network administrators, network engineers, network architects, security administrators, and security architects responsible for installation, setup, configuration, and administration of the BIG-IP AFM system.

Chapter 1: Setting up the BIG-IP System


- Introducing the BIG-IP System
- Initially Setting Up the BIG-IP System
- Archiving the BIG-IP System Configuration
- Leveraging F5 Support Resources and Tools
Chapter 2: AFM Overview



- AFM Overview
- AFM Availability
- AFM and the BIG-IP Security Menu
Chapter 3: Network Firewall


- AFM Firewalls
- Contexts
- Modes
- Packet Processing
- Rules and Direction
- Rules Contexts and Processing
- Inline Rule Editor
- Configuring Network Firewall
- Netwo...