The lab summarizes how F5 Distributed Cloud can discover, inventory, and secure critical APIs, helping you defend your known endpoints and bring the rogue Shadow APIs into the light. The connected world runs on APIs. Your banking app uses them, your ride share app uses them, even that weather app you check before walking out the door, it gets that data from an API. We interact with them multiple times throughout our daily life, to do everything from the most essential to the most mundane. They are simply everywhere and more and more are being published every day. As you would expect, this proliferation of APIs has marked them as a prime target for malicious actors. In the last couple years there have been quite a few well publicized attacks. From social media to fitness firms, no industry seems to be safe. With recent reports indicating that API vulnerabilities are costing businesses billions of dollars annually, it's no wonder they are at the top of mind of many cyber security professionals.

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), coined by Gartner in 2019, is a solution that blends networking and security into cloud scale architecture that optimizes end user performance and improves security for an organization. With the Zscaler and SD-WAN integration, you can rapidly gain access to cloud-delivered security in minutes. This market leading API automation makes it very fast and agile to deploy and manage the network and security environment of hundreds or even thousands of remote sites.

Elastic Security provides a different approach to EDR by combing EDR and SIEM capabilities which leads to reduced mean time to detect and respond to threats. Elastic Security for endpoint prevents ransomware and malware, detects advanced threats and arms responders with vital investigative context, such as prioritized detections to help stop alert fatigue.

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), coined by Gartner in 2019, is a solution that blends networking and security into cloud-scale architecture that optimizes end user performance and improves security for an organization. Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) is a secure Internet and web gateway cloud-delivered SASE service that sits between the users and the internet. ZIA will inspect every byte of traffic inline across multiple security techniques providing full protection from web and internet threats. The SASE Lab Series will look to explore the capabilities of the solution to provide you with a "rubber meets road" understanding of these technologies and how SASE can be applied in your company.

WWT's AlgoSec Foundations Lab introduces three prominent features offered by AlgoSec: the Firewall Analyzer, AppViz, and Fireflow. The lab aims to lead users through the utilization and functionality of these features by providing detailed steps accompanied by essential explanations. Moreover, the lab furnishes users with an environment to explore and experiment with various other capabilities of AlgoSec that may not be covered in the lab guide. AlgoSec encompasses a suite of software designed to aid organizations in optimizing their network. Their mission revolves around enhancing network speed while concurrently elevating its security. AlgoSec presents a solution for mapping network flows, effecting secure and automated changes, and conducting compliance checks via automated reports. The AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer (AFA) stands as a comprehensive tool for device analysis. It furnishes users with a unified and exhaustive perspective on all applications, services, and flows within their network. Algosec's AppViz adopts an application-centric security approach, providing transparent visibility into network applications while upholding the network security policy of the user. Lastly, AlgoSec's Fireflow streamlines the security policy change process. It translates each request into a practicable policy alteration and ensures that these modifications are duly approved, necessary, and executed as intended.

WWT's ATC Palo Alto Cortex XDR Proving Ground Lab provides a consolidated solution built around Cortex XDR, the Palo Alto firewall, Windows endpoints and Windows servers to demonstrate how the Cortex XDR Agent protects against threats. The goal of Cortex XDR is to increase the operational efficiency of the security operations center. Cortex XDR accomplishes this by reducing alerts by combining similar events, stitching together logs from different sources and preventing as many threats as possible early in the attack cycle. Cortex XDR goes beyond the traditional EDR approach of using only endpoint data to identify and respond to threats by applying machine learning across all your enterprise, network, cloud and endpoint data. This approach enables you to quickly find and stop targeted attacks, insider abuse and remediate compromised endpoints. Cortex XDR combines functionality from Endpoint Protection, Endpoint Detection and Response, Network Traffic Analysis and User Behavior Analytics into a single console. This lab consists of servers running common applications that include Palo Alto Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Cortex XSOAR, Palo Alto VM-Series firewall, Active Directory, Windows IIS and SQL server, and several Windows 10 workstations. You will access the environment using a Windows-based jump host from which you can browse web consoles and open RDP/SSH sessions.

This lab exists to provide hands-on experience with the integration between ZIA, CrowdStrike Falcon, and Okta through relevant use cases. First, this lab can be used to see how the integration between CrowdStrike Falcon and ZIA can ensure administrators have end-to-end insight into the threat landscape to minimize attack surface and deliver rapid threat detection and response. On top of this, the lab allows users to see how Okta can integrate with both CrowdStrike and Zscaler to strengthen a company's Zero Trust profile, enhance threat detection during authentication and monitor the intersection of security and access management.

The Palo Alto NGFW Foundations Lab is a capability of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) designed to provide an environment to gain hands-on experience with the fundamental features of Palo Alto's solution. The environment that supports the lab is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure.

The Cisco Meraki Wireless Switching and Security Lab is designed to provide an environment to gain hands-on experience with the features of Cisco Meraki Dashboard and Meraki MX, MS and MR product lines.