This lab is an experience of an organization who aspires for digital transformation but fails to realize the technical quality and performance required to fulfill an innovative business objective. We'll walk through a scenario of a time-sensitive business strategy, common issues encountered during development and operations of a custom technology platform, then apply procedural adaptations which increase efficiency, security, and reliability for the technical foundation of the business solution.

Systems are at higher risk without a concerted, repeatable application security configuration process. In this lab, you will learn how to build a declarative AWAF policy and achieve OWASP Top Ten (2021) compliance with the BIG-IP OWASP Compliance Dashboard. A complete CI/CD pipeline is used to deploy our AWAF policy to the BIG-IP system using Application Services 3 Extension (AS3) and Ansible.