F5 and WWT's global partnership is founded on innovation, deep technical expertise, trust, and culture that drives positive business outcomes for our customers. F5 solutions help our customers with their most complex challenges around digital and security transformation and AI.

APIs have become the backbone of modern digital interactions, connecting everything from morning coffee purchases to streaming services. But the rise of API-centric architectures has drastically expanded the attack surface -- over 90 percent of web-based cyberattacks are now targeting API endpoints, exploiting new vulnerabilities often overlooked by security teams – and rendered traditional security measures are no longer sufficient. Join F5 Field CTO Chuck Herrin and WWT's Head of Global Cyber Strategy Traci Byrne as they talk about the urgent need for more dynamic and comprehensive defense strategies to prevent breaches. Chuck and Traci detail how security teams can "shift left" to better address API risks and vulnerabilities and outline practical steps security leaders can take to bolster their defenses.

VS Code extensions provide capabilities to increase developer productivity and streamline the developer experience. In this session, presented by Ben Novak of F5, we explored all the great features of the vscode-f5 extension, how it streamlines automation workflow development, and looked under the hood at how it works.

In today's dynamic and interconnected digital landscape, web applications face an ever-increasing threat landscape, with injection-based attacks posing a significant risk to data integrity and user privacy. During this session, presented by Ben Novak from F5, we learned how the F5 Advanced Web Application Firewall (AWAF) and its real-time threat intelligence, combined with Red Hat Ansible and the ELK Stack, can help defend against injection-based attacks and provide a proactive and comprehensive approach to web application security, safeguarding against these threats effectively.

BIG-IP application automation has been at the forefront for a decade. As we look to build out the next ten years of automation, this session helped you learn about F5's new methodologies and implementations and where we went wrong over the past ten years. Because BIG-IP and applications are no longer in single or DR locations due to digital transformation and the global pandemic, our implementation footprints have moved to distributed locations. In this presentation, we observed firsthand how BIG-IP application automation has changed to support this transformation, including how we create reusable items with local resources.