Name: Evolving API Gateways: F5 NGINX Insights & Best Practices
Start: 2025-04-16T18:00:00Z
End: 2025-04-16T18:00:48.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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F5 is a multicloud application security and delivery company committed to bringing a better digital world to life. F5 partners with the world’s largest, most advanced organizations to secure every app—on premises, in the cloud, or at the edge. F5 enables businesses to continuously stay ahead of threats while delivering exceptional, secure digital experiences for their customers. For more information, go to f5.com. 



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The Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) market is rapidly expanding due to evolving business risks, security threats, regulatory mandates, and cyber insurance requirements. Organizations are now seeking flexible deployment options and vendors who can integrate WAAP capabilities into a cohesive offering, ensuring robust protection against online threats.

This integration helps close security gaps and reduces management complexity. According to IDC research, 77% of businesses consider integration between security solutions either 'important’ or ‘critically important’.

Join this webinar to gain insights on:

-  The current state of the WAAP market, key vendors and main trends influencing the market over the next 1-2 years
-  Top drivers motivating businesses to invest in integrated WAAP solution
-  Critical questions buyers should ask when evaluating WAAP offerings
-  Impact of compliance and regulations on the WAAP market
-  Key WAAP use cases for protecting applications and APIs across all environments

Attendees will also gain exclusive access to the latest IDC MarketScape report on WAAP Enterprise Platforms, which evaluates eight leading vendors and their strengths and challenges.

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Join our subject matter experts to explore advanced architectural choices and best practices for deploying and scaling API gateways. Learn how to enhance their security and performance. This session is tailored for cloud and platform architects, IT security and network professionals, and developers involved in designing and implementing API infrastructure across the organization.

This webinar will help you:

-  Discover advanced API Gateway deployment patterns for architecting cloud-native app delivery.
-  Learn how to improve visibility and optimize the performance and reliability of your API gateways.
-  Gain insight into threat mitigation strategies and best practices for securing your API gateways.
-  Explore effective methods for configuring and scaling your API infrastructure to handle high request volumes on-demand.

Learn more, register today

Evolving API Gateways:  F5 NGINX Insights & Best Practices

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Time is of the essence. PCI DSS 4.0 introduces significant new requirements, and your organization must act now to comply. Whether deploying vulnerability assessment tools or implementing automated solutions to detect and prevent web-based and client-side attacks, the latest framework calls for a proactive and robust security approach.

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Here to answer your questions live or ondemand viewing.

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In today's rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape, ignoring critical security issues can lead to disastrous consequences. This webinar, "API Security Matters: The Risks of Turning a Blind Eye," addresses the crucial topic of API Security, covering the lifecycle from code-based discovery to implementing lessons learned.

Join our expert speakers, Josh Goldfarb, Field CISO at F5, and Joe Martin, Sr. Solutions Architect at F5, as they share practical steps and real-world examples to help security teams protect and defend their applications and APIs. 

The session will emphasize the importance of visibility and awareness in identifying and mitigating security vulnerabilities, and the professional and ethical responsibilities of those in the security field

Key Learning Objectives:
-  Explore the seven critical steps in API Security, including code-based discovery, crawler-based discovery, traffic-based discovery, preventive controls, continuous security monitoring/detective controls, response/mitigation, and implementing lessons learned.
-  Learn why steps such as code-based discovery, crawler-based discovery, and traffic-based discovery are crucial for maintaining ongoing security and how they facilitate the subsequent steps in the security lifecycle.
-  Understand the significant risks associated with being unaware of security vulnerabilities, including increased likelihood of breaches, intrusions, and incidents.
-  Gain practical insights and strategies for implementing effective API security measures and ensuring that your security team is prepared to address and mitigate potential threats.

Learn more, register now

API Security Matters: The Risks of Turning a Blind Eye

APIs took the world by storm, proliferated architecture, and forced security teams to react, the same trends are happening in the AI era.

While new risks and constantly evolving threats are constantly in the headlines, the security community is already equipped to defend the interfaces and ecosystems that underpin AI apps.

Watch this webinar to get the lowdown on AI security, what we can do now to protect new apps and ecosystems, and what the future holds (hint: AI-generated flux capacitors). See why AI furthers the ball of fire of risk and complexity and learn how to future-proof protections for AI applications, interconnected APIs, and the interfaces into AI models.

In this webinar, we’ll cover:
-  AI impacts on application architectures
-  Where defenders should focus today
-  The future of AI security

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Discover the multifaceted benefits of hybrid, multicloud deployments. Learn how this approach can reduce overall cloud expenditure, enhance system resilience, and streamline AI application deployment.

Join our experts as they share valuable insights and actionable strategies to help you navigate the complexities of the modern IT landscape and harness the full potential of a multicloud environment powered by AI.

Key Takeaways:
-  Discover the driving forces behind the shift towards a multicloud strategy and what makes it compelling for organizations today.
-  Understand the challenges associated with implementing a multicloud strategy and how to effectively address them.
-  Learn how AI applications are influencing and shaping multicloud strategies.
-  Explore how F5's solutions can help you overcome the inherent challenges of multicloud environments.

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We also cover the latest AI news, including a look at DeepSeek’s recent developments and OpenAI's new releases.

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AI applications introduce unique challenges due to the dynamic nature of both inbound prompts and outbound responses. Traditional application security methods do not address the non-deterministic nature of AI interactions requiring new platforms. F5 AI Gateway provides the security, visibility and scalability needed to deploy and operate AI applications confidently.

Join our upcoming webinar to dive deeper into the features and benefits of the F5 AI Gateway. Our experts will provide detailed insights, showcasing how our solution can transform your approach to AI application security.
In this webinar, we’ll cover:
-  Comprehensive protection: Understand how F5 AI Gateway offers deep inspection of dynamic AI interactions to secure your applications effectively.
-  Scalability, visibility and reliability: Learn how the architecture of F5 AI Gateway ensures your AI applications can scale, perform and be iterated to perform and evolve reliably in any environment.
-  Extensible security: Software development kits (SDKs) readily enable modification or updating actions on prompts and response which enables compliance with organization or regulatory requirements and protect against evolving threats.

Learn more, reg now.

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Our hosts from F5  bring you the latest news, including the release of Deep Seek and Gemini's prompt chaining capabilities. We explore the implications of the Stargate program and its potential to drive domestic AI innovation. 

Tune in to hear insightful discussions on how AI is shaping the future for the better, making advanced healthcare more accessible, and fostering innovation through competition. Don't forget to like and subscribe to stay updated with all things AI.

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