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. Cisco Umbrella is a SASE solution that combines edge networking, domain name system (DNS) enforcement, cloud-delivered firewall (CDFW), and secure web gateway (SWG) capabilities to connect, protect, and secure remote offices and users. 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.

This lab gives users access to Calico Enterprise (CE), allowing users to explore Calico Enterprise's capabilities and integrations options. The lab includes Splunk and a three-node Kubernetes cluster tied to the CE. With these components, users can develop and test out various configuration, integration and failure scenarios. Additionally, this lab has the Calico agent installed on several Linux devices to demonstrate the interactions between the container and non-container-based workloads.

WWT’s ATC Palo Alto Cortex XDR Proving Ground Lab exists to provide a consolidated solution built around relevant use cases. This lab seeks to demonstrate the Palo Alto Cortex XDR platform’s cloud-based management console application with the ability to investigate and identify the root cause of an alert, perform immediate response actions, and prevent breaches using defined Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) and Behavioral Indicators of Compromise (BIOCs).

The purpose of this lab is to demonstrate the impact of applying a GraphQL profile (available from v16.1) to a WAF policy, securing a vulnerable GraphQL application that is probed by a DAST tool (ZAP). The deployment of the vulnerable application (DVGA), the declarative WAF policy and the execution of DAST session is being controlled by a CI/CD pipeline, simulating a modern development environment.

This lab provides an introduction to the software-defined networking capabilities of VMware NSX-T that are enabled with every VMware Cloud Foundation deployment. This lab will show the simplicity of creating networks in software, attaching workloads to these networks (segments) in vSphere, securing the workloads using NSX Distributed Firewall and creating a Load Balancer using NSX.

The purpose of this lab is to demo the OWASP Compliance dashboard within Big-IP and to walk the user through creating a security policy for the Arcadia Finance application that protects against the top 10 application security risks. Bear in mind that your configuration and the level of security protection you implement depend on the specifics of your application.

The purpose of this lab is to demo how NGINX Controller API Management Module and NGINX App Protect can secure the OAuth Authorization Code flow, which is core to Open Banking specifications. The NGINX App Protect will be deployed as an Ingress Controller for Kubernetes and will provide both negative and positive security by ingesting the OpenAPI declaration file. The NGINX API Gateway will be controlled by NGINX Controller, will publish the application API based on the same OpenAPI declaration file, will provide JWT authentication and authorization and enforce rate limiting. The deployment and configuration of these elements will be performed automatically through a CI/CD pipeline. ELK dashboards will be used for visualization purposes and, lastly, a DAST tool will also be run as part of the CI/CD pipeline. BIG-IP APM is deployed as both Authorization Server with OpenID Connect support and as OAuth Client, in separate instances.