Why Security and Performance Solutions are Critical for Financial Services

Facing evolving security risks, poor performance at scale, costly cybersecurity audits, and the complexities of digital transformation, financial services organizations must align their adaptive application capabilities to support modern business.

It's increasingly clear that success depends on a modern application approach. F5 and WWT can help. 

Safegaurding Data and Customer Trust

Financial services data is amongst the most sought-after types of data by cyberattackers. That's why it's more critical than ever to secure and safeguard your applications and the data within them, without stifling innovation. F5 solutions guard against application exploits—web-based or mobile, deployed on premises or in the cloud—and build security measures directly into your CI/CD pipeline.

Meet Profitability Goals by Improving Application and Network Performance

A FinServ organization's profitability is directly impacted by poor application and network performance. Keeping apps and networks running fast and reliably is a minimum requirement for doing business in today's digital world.

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API Security for Open Finance: Why Security Matters

The use of open APIs enables banks to partner with FinTechs to build new and better digital experiences, but also generates massive volumes of API calls which cause security issues. F5 API-first designed solutions safeguard APIs and mitigate fraud and abuse.

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Visit WWT's Advanced Technology Center (ATC) and get hands-on access to the latest releases from F5.

F5 Distributed Cloud

F5 Distributed Cloud services leverage a cloud-native environment to simplify app deployment, security, connectivity and operations.

F5 NGINX

F5 NGINX modernizes apps at scale with high-performance app delivery spanning monoliths to microservices​.

F5 Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)

More than load balancing, the latest generation of F5 Application Delivery Controllers (ADC), such as the F5 BIG-IP handles a variety of functions, including SSL offloading, and serves as a Web Application Firewall.

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F5 AI Gateway

This lab will provide access to an Openshift cluster running the F5 AI Gateway solution. We will walk through how the F5 AI Gateway routes requests to different models by either allowing them to pass through or, more importantly, securing them via prompt injection checking. We have also added a couple of other tests that will allow for language detection of that input that the F5 AI Gateway can also detect.
Advanced Configuration Lab
27 launches

Practical API Security: Discover, Defend, and Secure APIs from Code to Runtime

This lab provides a hands-on introduction to API security and visibility using F5 Distributed Cloud Web App and API Protection (XC WAAP). As APIs continue to grow in number and complexity, they have become a primary target for cyberattacks. This lab explores how to discover, document, and secure both known and shadow APIs using the platform's API Discovery, Schema Validation, and Security Dashboards. Participants will learn how to: Send traffic through the F5 HTTPS Load Balancer to trigger API Discovery and the API Crawler Automatically generate and maintain an API inventory, including undocumented shadow APIs Apply OpenAPI Schema Validation to enforce API conformity and detect anomalies Gain deep insights through advanced API Security Dashboards, including threat levels, sensitive data exposure, authentication status, and risk scores Understand the importance of integrating DevSecOps practices by leveraging IaC and GitHub Actions for API protection deployment By the end of this lab, users will gain critical visibility into their API ecosystem, identify vulnerabilities, and take actionable steps to secure both documented and undocumented APIs—helping to bring shadow APIs into the light.
Advanced Configuration Lab
2 launches

Deploying and Securing Multi-Cloud and Edge Generative AI Workloads with F5 Distributed Cloud

In the current AI market, the demand for scalable and secure deployments is increasing. Public cloud providers (AWS, Google, and Microsoft) are competing to provide GenAI infrastructure, driving the need for multi-cloud and hybrid cloud deployments. However, distributed deployments come with challenges, including: Complexity in managing multi-cloud environments. Lack of unified visibility across clouds. Inconsistent security and policy enforcement. F5 Distributed Cloud provides a solution by offering a seamless, secure, and portable environment for GenAI workloads across clouds. This lab will guide you through setting up and securing GenAI applications with F5 Distributed Cloud on AWS EKS and GCP GKE.
Advanced Configuration Lab
10 launches

F5 Terraform Automation Lab

Welcome to WWT's F5 Terraform Automation Lab. The intended goal of this lab is to introduce and enable F5 administrators to utilize Terraform to automate, simplify and streamline the deployment of F5 services.
Foundations Lab
1017 launches