Upcoming Engineering Hotfixes for BIG-IP Access Policy Manager to address interruptions brought by new plug-in signing requirements in Firefox Browser versions 43 and 44

VMware Horizon virtual desktop clients typically use a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) when accessing desktop and application resources. More and more customers are distributing their Horizon application and desktop infrastucture to distribute...

VMware’s Horizon Security Server and Access Point provides secure access to sessions over an unsecured WAN and/or Internet connection. Typically, the Security Server/Access Point is placed within an organization’s DMZ. F5 BIG-IP Access Policy...

Despite my views on IT predictions I do feel honor bound to read the various predictions out there.  Wearables, virtual reality, machine learning, artificial intelligence, autonomous transport, lightsabers (ok, the last one is actually...

Or should I say “Tunneling the gap between….”  Ha Ha ha, hmm….never mind.So you just finished deploying your first BIG-IP from the Azure Marketplace.  You can barely contain your excitement!!!  That web app that’s been floating up...

File Uploads through a WAF Let’s say we have a web application with a form field that permits the upload of arbitrary files.  It would appear to the user similar to the below: Aside from photos, the application may permit users to upload...

With the recent release of the BIG-IP virtual edition for Azure enterprises can now take advantage of F5’s various services, (WAF, multi-factor authentication, endpoint inspection, etc.) to securely deploy their cloud-based applications. This...

Have you been there? It’s frustrating, as you can have all the drive and desire, but if you lack the compass to point you in the right direction, well, you go everywhere and nowhere at the same time. With networking, my compass reads true. For...

This is another short article in an irregular series demonstrating some practical recipes using LTM Policy.  Please also check out another article with a more complete overview of LTM Policy.   Forcing SSL connections In today’s...

It’s the season for predictions. What will 2016 bring in IT? Consulting firms, IT vendors (F5 included), and general web pundits will happily give you their predictions for business, consumers and the resulting IT trends they drive. Some of them...

The adoption of Cisco ACI with the APIC controller continue to gain traction in the market.  With their latest major APIC release, 1.2.1i , Cisco has streamlined how ADCs are connected to the fabric.    There have traditionally...

F5 recently released the F5 Access for Chrome OS version 1.0.0 application on the Chrome Web Store. This release of the F5 Access for Chrome OS app empowers customers to enable access from users’ Chromebooks to enterprise applications via F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager’s (APM) VPN capabilities.

Microservices are a cool way to build applications – cool in terms of the attention they get in blogs, marketing materials and conference speaking slots, but also cool in terms of genuinely offering a way to build applications that are more agile...

Technical Challenge Recently I was speaking with a customer and they mentioned that they leveraged the “Max Sessions Per User” setting within BIG-IP APM Access Profile to limit the number of concurrent connections that a single user could have...

Demand for faster time-to-market, for new applications and services, is changing the way entire systems are deployed. No longer will organizations tolerate lengthy delays in the release of revenue generating or productivity improving solutions....

Third-party browser plug-ins such as Java and Flash, as well as certain third-party malicious plugins, have been successful targets of browser-based security attacks and vulnerabilities. Browser vendors are eager to close loopholes allowing control of page content and computer operation outside of browser context. To mitigate these concerns, F5 will soon end the use of browser plug-ins.

    **********   Dear Santa,   I hope you and the reindeers are as excited as I am about Christmas! Make sure you get plenty of rest between now and then, so you can deliver all those lovely presents all over the world on...

For those of you interested in deploying F5 BIG-IP Virtual Editions (VE) on a hyper-converged platform, I am happy to let you know that we published a new document. The Deploying F5 BIG-IP Virtual Editions in a Hyper-Converged Infrastructure...

This post includes the latest information available from F5 regarding Microsoft Windows 10 support (including F5 BIG-IP Edge Client) with certain BIG-IP APM versions.

Early (very early, in fact) in the rise of SDN there were many discussions around scalability. Not of the data plane, but of the control (management) plane. Key to this discussion was the rate at which SDN-enabled network devices, via OpenFlow,...

In one of my previous posts we took a look at configuring the BIG-IP to act as a site-to-site VPN tunnel endpoint for connecting on-premises environments with Azure.  At the time the BIG-IP only supported policy-based, (static-route) VPN...

In this episode of Lightboard Lessons, Jason introduces the basic concepts for iRules. For further insights and study, please use the resources below. Resources The101: Basic iRules (series) iRule Editor iRules Documentation iRules 101 -...

Mobile financial malware needs little introduction, since 2010 mobile malware is on the rise. The first mobile Trojan launched was ‘Zitmo’ (Zeus-In-The-Mobile. A Mobile version of the most common PC Trojan – ZeuS) which was then followed by many...

It’s that time of year when we gift and re-gift, just like this text from last year. And the perfect opportunity to re-post, re-purpose and re-use all my 2015 blog entries. If you missed any of the 89 attempts including 59 videos, here they are...

The intrinsic what? In cell division, when intrinsic asymmetric division occurs (a parent cell divides), the two new daughter cells are not equal and exhibit different properties. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_cell_division] So,...