Name: Evolving API Gateways: F5 NGINX Insights & Best Practices
Start: 2025-04-23T18:00:00Z
End: 2025-04-23T18:00:48.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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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.

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Evolving API Gateways:  F5 NGINX Insights & Best Practices

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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.

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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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Driving AI Integration with Hybrid Multicloud Strategies

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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.

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Join industry experts from Red Hat and F5 in an insightful webinar focused on securely scaling generative AI workloads through the integration of Red Hat OpenShift AI and F5 Distributed Cloud API Security across the open hybrid cloud.

Discover how OpenShift AI offers a powerful, scalable MLOps platform for developing, training, and deploying AI models, while F5 Distributed Cloud provides advanced API security to protect your inference endpoints.

In this session, we will also delve into how F5's AI Factory approach facilitates the deployment of AI applications across hybrid and multicloud environments, ensuring they are secure, scalable, and reliable.

Key Learning Takeaways:
-  Understand how OpenShift AI enables scalable deployment of generative AI
-  Explore how F5 Distributed Cloud enhances security with features like API discovery, schema enforcement, and sensitive data redaction, demonstrated through a live demo.
-  Gain insights into F5's AI Factory approach and its effectiveness in supporting AI applications across various environments.

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