Architecture: Consolidated Platform Eddie Augustine

Major Accounts Manager: Federal

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Current DoD Situation – “Stovepipes” of Technology

VDI / BYOD Load

Balancing CAC / SSO

App

Security DNSSEC SSL VPN IP v4 – v6

App

Acceleration WAN Opt

Customization

Solutions

Traffic Management Operating System (TMOS)

Application Delivery Services

Access Security Availability

iRules iControl

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“Elimination of Stovepipes”

This is not a product pitch but rather

an ARCHITECTURE conversation

Customization

Solutions

Traffic Management Operating System

(TMOS)

Application Delivery Services

Access Security Availability

iRules iControl

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Benefits of a Consolidated Platform

- Reduced infrastructure = LOWER COST

- Reduced personnel / SMEs = LOWER COST

- Standardization = LOWER COST

- Less power (multiple devices) = LOWER COST

- SSL Offload = LOWER COST

- Less training = LOWER COST

- Lower maintenance fees = LOWER COST

- Faster delivery of apps = Happier Users

- Context aware = MORE SECURE (W,W,W,W,W, H)

Application Delivery Networking App Access Management Paul Deakin

FSE

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Availability

Security

Growth

End-user

Experience

Efficiency

Application Architect

Application Complexity: Extending Beyond the Code

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Corporate Employees

Cloud Services Hosted Applications SAAS Corporate

Data Center

Remote

Employees

Mobile

Employees

Branch Employees Customer, Partners, or Suppliers

How do I connect all these applications and services to the

right people, at the right moment in time, using the right

amount of resources, meet all my SLAs, ensure security and

save money?

Branch Apps and Data

F5’s Strategic Point of Control

Resources

Physical Virtual Multi-Site DCs Cloud

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP Private

Public

Users

Security

• Network

• Application

• Data

• Access

Management

• Integration

• Visibility

• Automation

• Orchestration

Availability

• Scale

• HA / DR

• Bursting

• Load-Balancing

Optimization

• Network

• Application

• Storage

• Offload

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A “Modern” IT Delivery Model

Corporate Employees

Remote

Employees

Mobile

Employees

Branch Employees Customer, Partners, or

Suppliers

Cloud Services Hosted Applications SAAS Branch Apps and

Data

Corporate

Data Center

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Proxy Web Servers

App 1

App 2

App 3

1

2

App n

3

Policy Manager

Directory

Application Authentication : 3 Common

(Static) Models

In a Proxy?

In an Agent?

In the Code?

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Web Servers

App 1

App 2

App 3

App n

Policy Manager

Directory

Application Authentication : Another

Virtualized Service!

Reduce Cost

Gain Scalability

Increase Security

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Client

Auth Virtual CC Virtual

CC Virtual

ex.com

colab.ex.com

support.ex.com

Credential Caching

Credential Caching and SSO

Unified Access Control

One Authentication – Multiple Access

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Users from different agencies

accessing federated sites

ADC

• Explosion of smart cards: Federal Govt's CAC card

• Extra auth. infrastructure required for Kerberos protocol

• Orgs. are required to federate between agencies

• Additional auth. costs $1M to $5M per agency

Federal Gov’t Authentication Complications

Auth. Gateway Kerberos

granting ticket

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Trusted Proxy

• Reduce infrastructure costs bringing auth. to BIG-IP

• Integrate and distribute users to domains

• Easier deployment throughout agencies

Simplified Smart Card Authentication Tier

Kerberos

granting ticket

Token based client access

card for mobile users

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Web Servers

App 1

App 2

App 3

App n

Policy Manager

Directory

Edge Authentication

Endpoint Control

Location Awareness

Flexible Authentication

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Applications Clients

Authentication on the Edge!

Greater Client Control

Decisions and Services Applied “Earlier”

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Graphical Access Policy Management

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Increased Situational Awareness

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Virtualization Support Built In

Software Modules

BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager Direct traffic to the best available server Guarantee application availability

• Compression

• RAM Caching

• TCP Multiplexing

• Load balancing

• Health Monitor

• Server Persistence

• DDoS protection

• TCP proxy

• Application proxy

• SSL offload

Available

Fast

Secure

• Up to 20 million queries per second

• IP Anycast for increased resilience

• Automated configuration sync

Scale DNS

• DDoS protection

• DNS protocol validation

• End the BIND patching cycle

• Load balance across data centers

• Direct to physical and cloud DCs

• Geographic IP topology database

L-DNS

BIG-IP GTM

Client

Data Center 2

BIG-IP LTM

App Servers

Data Center 1

BIG-IP LTM

App Servers

BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager Direct, secure, and scale your DNS infrastructure

Secure DNS

Direct DNS

Security Landscape

90% of security investment focused here Yet 75% of attacks are focused here

Source: Gartner

Network Threats Application Threats

Attack Vectors

TCP SYN Flood

TCP Conn Flood

DNS Flood

HTTP GET Flood

Attack Vectors

HTTP Slow Loris

DNS Cache Poison

SQL Injection

Cross Site Scripting

EAL 2+, EAL4+ in process

Application 7 Presentation 6 Session 5 Transport 4 Network 3 Data Link 2

BIG-IP

Advanced Firewall

BIG-IP

Application Security

F5 Extends Security Across All Layers

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DDoS MITIGATION

Application attacks Network attacks Session attacks

OWASP Top 10 (SQL

Injection, XSS, CSRF, etc.),

Slowloris, Slow Post,

HashDos, GET Floods

SYN Flood, Connection Flood, UDP Flood, Push and ACK Floods, Teardrop,

ICMP Floods, Ping Floods and Smurf Attacks

BIG-IP ASM

Positive and negative policy

reinforcement, iRules, full

proxy for HTTP, server

performance anomaly

detection

DNS UDP Floods, DNS Query Floods, DNS

NXDOMAIN Floods, SSL Floods, SSL

Renegotiation

BIG-IP LTM and GTM

High-scale performance, DNS Express,

SSL termination, iRules, SSL

renegotiation validation

BIG-IP AFM

SynCheck, default-deny posture, high-capacity connection table, full-proxy

traffic visibility, rate-limiting, strict TCP forwarding.

Packet Velocity Accelerator (PVA) is a purpose-built, customized hardware

solution that increases scale by an order of magnitude above software-only

solutions.

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Increasing difficulty of attack detection

• Protect against DDoS

at all layers

• Withstand the

largest attacks

• Gain visibility and

detection of SSL

encrypted attacks

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“Next generation” firewall

Characteristics

• Outbound user inspection

• UserID and AppID

• Who is doing what?

• 1K users to 10K websites

• Broad but shallow

Corporate (users)

Internet data center (servers)

Characteristics

• Inbound application protection

• Application delivery focus

• 1M users to 100 apps

• Narrow but deep

• 12 protocols (HTTP, SSL, etc.)

BIG-IP Security Use the right tool

F5 Application Delivery Firewall

Network Floods – Mitigated by Scale and Performance

Layer 3: Configurable rate-limiting of ICMP floods

Layer 4: SYN-flood protection in hardware, mitigating 1 billion SYNs per second

BIG-IP 10200v: 36M concurrent sessions

VIPRION 2400: 48M concurrent sessions

VIPRION 4480: 144M concurrent sessions

VIPRION 4800: 288M concurrent sessions

• Layer 2 – 4 Protection

• Application-centric deployment

• Massive Scale for DDoS Protection

• ICSA Certified Network Firewall

• Integrated into the BIG-IP ADC

BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Full Network Firewall Integrated into the ADC

Connections per second

14x

F5 VIPRION 4480

Juniper SRX 5800

Cisco ASA 5585-X

Check Point 61000

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Millio

ns

Advanced Firewall

Users Web Applications BIG-IP ASM

• Layer 5 – 7 Application Protection

• PCI DSS Compliance

• Positive + Negative Security Models

• ICSA Certified Web App Firewall

• Integrated into the BIG-IP ADC

Application Security

BIG-IP Application Security Secure web applications from threats

Automate

Signature

Updates

Industry Partnerships

BIG-IP Access Policy Manager Identify, authenticate, and control user access to your applications

• Secure and accelerate application access from any

device and location

• Consolidate AAA and SSO services for enterprise

applications

• RDP, View, Citrix Xen Support

• Federate via SAML

Single Sign On

• Scalable SSL VPN

• Advanced Endpoint checks

• BYOD: IOS, Win8, Android Support

Mobile User Access

Page Generation Time Page Load

Time

Client Browser Server

Infrastructure

Page Generation Time Page Delivery Time

• Compression

• Dynamic Caching

• Content Spooling

• OneConnect

• Rate Shaping

• Connection limit

• Compression

• Dynamic Caching

• TCP Express

• Differential Compression

• QoS

• Security/authentication

BIG-IP Web Accelerator Acceleration for static and dynamic web apps

Network Acceleration Server Offload

BIG-IP Wan Optimization Module Connection is encrypted and accelerated via network and application proxies, compression, de-duplication

App Tier

BIG-IP

Web Tier

File Servers

Active Database

Optimization of data replication and backup.

TCP & HTTP Optimization

Data Center 1 Data Center 2

Optimization of

applications such as HTTP

BIG-IP

BIG-IP / ARX

Logical Diagram File Servers

Standby Database

This is a logical diagram. Database and storage acceleration will physically route through the BIG-IP.

Migrate live VM images across WAN without dropping user sessions

Accelerate replication and backup such as SnapMirror or Exchange

Data center to data center acceleration

Internet or WAN

Enterprise Manager Centralized Manager for BIG-IP Products

Reporting

• Predefined reports

• User generated reports

• Exportable (pdf, csv, email)

Views

• Node/Pool Member Views

• Easy access for Enable/Disable

Software Upgrades

• Stage upgrade packages to target BIG-IPs

• Schedule BIG-IP software upgrades

• Manual or automatic activation of upgrades

Backups

• Schedule automated config backups

• Run visual diffs against current configs

Heuristics

• Ability to connect to heuristics engine

• Ability to schedule heuristics run

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Thank You!