DC Post of the Week - SSL Info in your HTTP Headers

Pete Silva Demonstrates DataGram TLS In The BIG-IP Secure Access Module

VIPRION - Unboxed

DevCentral's own Colin Walker (with Joe behind the camera) gets a first hand look at unboxing an "almost" brand spanking new VIPRION. In case you hadn't heard, VIPRION is F5's newly announced chassis-based application delivery controller.
With the help of F5's Product Marketing Manager Mike Krasnow, the two haul this chassis out of the packing materials and gives us the scoop on the components and what makes this product so incredibly unique.

TechDump: Login to your FirePass using simple UNIX tools, complete with script

FirePass does not use any proprietary "voodoo" to generate SSL VPN tunnels. The underlying technology is nothing more complex than PPP over SSL. Internally, F5 has used this to our advantage for testing purposes and employee remote access from Unsecured locations.

TechDump: Pete Silva talks about FirePass Ep. 2 - Endpoint Security

Pete Silva's back in the second of four extremely interesting, not to mention educational, talks we had about FirePass. In this new installment, Pete talks about Endpoint Security, how it ties in with Pre-Logon inspections (which he talked about in Episode 1), and what it can do for you. Learn how to protect individual Resources and enable the Virtual Keyboard on a per-client basis

TechDump: Pete Silva talks about FirePass Ep. 1 - PreLogon Inspections

Pete Silva who's one of our more knowledgable, not to mention gregarious, FirePass guys caught wind of FirePass making its way onto DevCentral and stopped by to chat about some of the things that FirePass can do. He was kind enough to stick around for four different segments. In this, the first of those four, Pete chats about Pre-Logon inspections, FirePass' ability to inspections, FirePass' ability to inspect and work with a client's PC as the'yre logging in, and why that's so important.

411: An introduction to FirePass

Jeff Browning interviews F5's Dan Kim and Robert Rexford to learn about the more advanced functionality available with the Firepass SSL VPN including content processing and scripting, endpoint security, and more.

00:28 Who are you? 01:18 What is Firepass? 02:35 Before we dive into the technical details, how can people get a demo of the basics? 03:55 What are some of the more cool or advanced things you can show us? 05:13 Whoa - if you need to hit the "panic" button, let me know. 06:30 We get a tour of the reverse proxy, content processing, and custom scripting. 08:40 So, someone building iRules today should pick this up pretty quickly? 09:08 What else can you show us? 13:10 It looks like the Visual Policy Editor is an intuitive way to develop endpoint security policies to protect your network. 14:07 You can actually present a message to users telling them what they need to do to be compliant? 16:08 We take a look at Group Based Policy management. 17:30 It looks like this could be a quick and easy way to create user groups for external users quickly.

411: Help stop Phishing in your network, with iRules