Collaborate Disseminate
Today marks 15 years with F5. That’s 28.8% of my life and 50% of my professional career! And no, this is not a ‘thank you, goodbye’ note. In fact, the opposite. As I write this, so many memories come to mind. Now, I could brag about t… Continue reading Grateful for 15 with F5
(Or, How I Mandela’d Myself Back into a Job) Almost every week for over a decade, I’d tap some words out on a keyboard and push the story out for folks to read. And much to my glee, you did engage, share, comment and seemed to genuinely enj… Continue reading Me:Recently
Welcome to 2018! If the kids in the back seat have been chanting, ‘Are we there yet?, Are we there yet?’ you can tell them, ‘Yes! Now, Get out the car!’ If, like me, you’ve taken a couple weeks off to enjoy the holidays an… Continue reading The DevCentral Chronicles Volume 1, Issue 1
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 2017 entries. If you missed any of the 64 attempts including 16 videos, here they are wrappe… Continue reading Blog Roll 2017
In this Lightboard Lesson, I light up some #basics about internet bots and botnets. Humans account for less than 50% of internet traffic and the rest is spread between the good bots and bad ones. ps Related: The Facts about Botnets The state of botnets… Continue reading Lightboard Lessons: What are Bots?
Ransomware seems to be this year’s huge trend With 2017 crossing the half way point, let’s look at some technology trends thus far. Breaches: Many personal records are half empty due to the continued rash of intrusions while the crooks are half full of our personal information along with some ransom payments. According to the […]
Continue reading Is 2017 Half Empty or Half Full?
In this Lightboard Lesson, I light up some use cases for BIG-IP ASM Layered Policies available in BIG-IP v13.
With Parent and Child policies, you can:
Impose mandatory policy elements on multiple policies;
Create multiple policies with baseline pro… Continue reading Lightboard Lessons: BIG-IP ASM Layered Policies
BIG-IP can manage application-specific network traffic in a variety of ways, depending on the protocols and services being used. On BIG-IP, Profiles are a set of tools that you can use to intelligently control the behavior of that traffic. In this Lightboard Lesson, I light up the BIG-IP Profiles. What they are, what they do […]
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The term ‘Proxy’ is a contraction that comes from the middle English word procuracy, a legal term meaning to act on behalf of another. In networking and web traffic, a proxy is a device or server that acts on behalf of other devices. It sits between two entities and performs a service. Proxies are hardware […]
Continue reading Lightboard Lessons: What is a Proxy?
The term ‘Proxy’ is a contraction that comes from the middle English word procuracy, a legal term meaning to act on behalf of another. In networking and web traffic, a proxy is a device or server that acts on behalf of other devices. It sits between two entities and performs a service. Proxies are hardware […] Continue reading Lightboard Lessons: What is a Proxy?