hello everyone i'm laura and today i'll
be interview interviewing john wagner
from f5 john wagner what is your role
here at f5 so i'm on the dev central
team which is our online community at f5
and i'm a senior solution developer i
write content i do like
videos and write articles that kind of
thing so just help out our community f5
and op swat have been strategic partners
for several years now and there are
numerous
products that are compliant between f5
products and meta fender icap server can
you
talk about all these products yeah so f
there's a lot of different f5 modules
that are compatible so
you know here we have here we have
opswat
and you would have f5
ltm which is our local traffic manager
we also have our asm
which is the application security
manager which is our waff there's like
10 different you know words for this
thing um
and then we also have our advanced waff
so our awaf and then we also have our
ssl orchestrator so
any of these are going to be able to
connect with opswat they use a protocol
it's called icap
um
it's the icap protocol that would
connect the f5 modules down to the op
swat metadefender
device so yeah but you've got a lot of
different options from the fi
perspective to connect into op swat
addressing critical infrastructure
security is a paradigm for both f5 and
opswat
how do you think this partnership helps
protect these kinds of industries
well
the
the idea of critical infrastructure that
you need to protect from things like
network attacks malware that kind of
thing is absolutely critical so maybe
just a quick picture up here you know if
you have
a web application that you're trying to
protect here
and you put f5 technology in front of
that so here's your f5 and then you've
got opswat doing
its uh awesome work as well so like
maybe you have your meta defender
and you've got you know good customers
out here
and then you've got bad attackers out
here you know
that are doing their things so
with with the critical infrastructure
that you need to protect
there are network attacks that are
coming in where f5 can protect against
those on things like a web application
firewall
we have our advanced waft we even have
like there's security features built
into things like our ltm or apm
many different modules that f5 has
so from a network attack specifically
where you're trying to attack the web
application f5 can certainly protect
against those kinds of things
where you have users trying to upload
files let's say to a web application
maybe you want to upload a resume or you
want to upload a picture to you know
some
online social application or whatever
right then you know these files come in
f5 is going to be able to to capture
that it's going to be able to decrypt
the traffic but then it passes it down
via this icap protocol to op swat and
then ops what's going to be able to kick
in with all the different anti-virus
engines that op swat has cable you know
at its disposal
um
the content dis disarm and reconstruct
the cdr the deep cdr that that opswat
does like with all the zip files you can
get into every single zip file and like
a you know and really go all the way
down deep into every single file also
all the components of the file so like
if there's
i don't know like if you have a word
document and there's comments in the
word document maybe an attacker will try
to slip some kind of a piece of malware
into the you know what comments that
you'll see on like a word document
sometimes there's information inside of
these comments that is confidential and
you don't want this kind of information
released so it's also good to try to
clean some of these up for privacy
reasons yeah so there's all so it's not
maybe just malware stuff maybe it's
confidentiality privacy that kind of
stuff exactly so opswat can take care of
all of that kind of stuff so that at the
end of the day
you've got a you've got a safe and
secure web application that has been
protected by all of the security
features of both f5 and opswat combined
and it just provides
really critical
security protection to your critical
infrastructure
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