The document discusses a case study of a large UK utilities company that provides water and sewage services. They needed a remote access solution for their mobile workforce that provided hassle-free access to corporate applications from any location. AMPS Global designed and deployed an F5 Virtual Appliance integrated with the company's VMware infrastructure to provide secure single sign-on access. This allowed remote employees to easily and securely access internal network resources, improving productivity while leveraging their existing F5 investment. Training was also provided to the security team on managing the new remote access solution.
The CoreSite Interconnect Gateway™ (CIG) solution was created with optimal performance and cost efficiency in mind. CIG allows you to hit the “easy button” to rapidly enhance your network performance. This fully managed solution creates secure, high-bandwidth direct connectivity to leading public clouds, network service providers, data centers, and corporate offices to improve application performance and reduce network costs. Traffic is efficiently routed between vendors through router, firewall and WAN acceleration services on the platform.
Load balancing isn’t dead—it has evolved into something much greater. While it remains a core functionality for delivering any application, traditional load-balancing has moved beyond the network to encompasses a range of security, performance and management services. As leaders in the application services industry, F5’s expertise in helping power fast, available, and secure applications forms the foundation for our entire catalog of solutions.
Any Device. Anytime. Anywhere. Not only are employees accessing enterprise applications on mobile devices, they’re increasingly using their own devices. Making applications always available anywhere on any device is critical to lowering costs and maximizing productivity. With F5, you can remove the roadblocks in your network to efficiently and securely deliver applications that are available to users when and where they need them.
Presentation from 9/24/15 webcast presented by WWT Mobility and Access Lead Neil Anderson, on how deploying a Cisco Intelligent WAN (IWAN) strategy will be critical to meet the demands on your business. Bill Thompson and Laks Vijayarajan, technical solutions architects in WWT’s Advanced Technology Center (ATC), covered technical best practices to ensure a successful IWAN deployment.
World Wide Technology walks through how Cisco ONE can enable businesses to maintain customer service and meet the needs of end users while continuing to improve hardware
stacks. Cisco ONE can help identify how many licenses
you own and how effectively they are being utilized.
Every three to five years, IT departments are forced
to throw away 40 to 60 percent of their investments to
acquire assets and software to run it because of
changes in hardware. With Cisco ONE, now you can
procure hardware and software separately and own
and maintain your software licenses perpetually.
Learn more about this game changing program from Cisco by visiting wwt.com.
The CoreSite Interconnect Gateway™ (CIG) solution was created with optimal performance and cost efficiency in mind. CIG allows you to hit the “easy button” to rapidly enhance your network performance. This fully managed solution creates secure, high-bandwidth direct connectivity to leading public clouds, network service providers, data centers, and corporate offices to improve application performance and reduce network costs. Traffic is efficiently routed between vendors through router, firewall and WAN acceleration services on the platform.
Load balancing isn’t dead—it has evolved into something much greater. While it remains a core functionality for delivering any application, traditional load-balancing has moved beyond the network to encompasses a range of security, performance and management services. As leaders in the application services industry, F5’s expertise in helping power fast, available, and secure applications forms the foundation for our entire catalog of solutions.
Any Device. Anytime. Anywhere. Not only are employees accessing enterprise applications on mobile devices, they’re increasingly using their own devices. Making applications always available anywhere on any device is critical to lowering costs and maximizing productivity. With F5, you can remove the roadblocks in your network to efficiently and securely deliver applications that are available to users when and where they need them.
Presentation from 9/24/15 webcast presented by WWT Mobility and Access Lead Neil Anderson, on how deploying a Cisco Intelligent WAN (IWAN) strategy will be critical to meet the demands on your business. Bill Thompson and Laks Vijayarajan, technical solutions architects in WWT’s Advanced Technology Center (ATC), covered technical best practices to ensure a successful IWAN deployment.
World Wide Technology walks through how Cisco ONE can enable businesses to maintain customer service and meet the needs of end users while continuing to improve hardware
stacks. Cisco ONE can help identify how many licenses
you own and how effectively they are being utilized.
Every three to five years, IT departments are forced
to throw away 40 to 60 percent of their investments to
acquire assets and software to run it because of
changes in hardware. With Cisco ONE, now you can
procure hardware and software separately and own
and maintain your software licenses perpetually.
Learn more about this game changing program from Cisco by visiting wwt.com.
Modern Network Compliance: The Journey of a CustomerItential
This webinar slideshow showcases real-world examples of how Itential users achieved network compliance. Senior Technical Marketing Engineer Rich Martin review why configuration compliance is a requirement to achieve network security, reliability, and performance goals as well as show these principles in action with real-world customer examples and results.
The market is crowded with SD-WAN providers—from pure-play startups to more established infrastructure and WAN specialists. With so many vendors, each offering different SD-WAN features and functions, how do you find the solution that's right for your organization?
Before you engage with SD-WAN providers or assemble your shortlist, learn how to choose the right solution for your organization and evaluate the four critical factors of SD-WAN: architecture, performance, security, and provisioning/management.
Learn more: https://rvbd.ly/2vmZoNW
Modern Network Compliance: How Network Compliance Accelerates AutomationItential
The network teams' ultimate goal is to automate across their entire network, but when the state of large areas of the network is unknown, many times network teams feel that the risk of automation is too high. But the truth that they often fail to realize is that you will never have a compliant network without automation.
Ensure Application Availability Between Hybrid Data CentersF5 Networks
Preview the Ensure Application Availability Between Hybrid Data Centers webinar. Learn real-world strategies for building a hybrid infrastructure to support your on- and off-premises applications.
This is the second of four webinars in the F5 Networks State of Application Delivery 2015 series. The webinars are based on the survey results that make of the "State of Application Delivery in 2015" report, which highlights strategic initiatives are driving application deployments including the most important trend for the next two to five years.
Download the report and watch all the webinars here: f5.com/SOAD
F5 Certified! Program Overview and UpdateF5 Networks
What does it mean to be F5 Certified? F5 Networks Certified exams test the skills and knowledge necessary to be successful when working with today’s application delivery challenges. F5 Professional Certification represents a new breed of technologist capable of manipulating the entire application stack from traditional network knowledge all the way to advanced application layer understanding, with a unique capability to integrate the two. An F5 Networks certification gives technologists a high-quality, credible certification that is a differentiator for candidates and a strategic, competitive advantage for organizations employing them.
Learn more at www.F5.com/education/certification
TELUS’ Network-as-as-Service (previously known as TELUS Smart Networks) a new set of services that is built on Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) technologies. When combined with process automation it transforms the way TELUS offers and provides services. NaaS is composed of three broad categories: network connectivity, on-premises capabilities such as Wi-Fi, and cloud-based value added services.
Silver Peak & Innovation Network Technologies (InNet)
Evolve IT: Why Performance Matters When Building Your New SD-WAN, Not all SD-WAN is Created Equal eBook
While F5 supports the whole range of the Horizon Suite, this reference architecture focuses on the Horizon View component of VMware’s overall End User Computing solutions.
F5 APM VE, optimized for VMware Horizon View, delivers secure access, traffic management, and simplified deployment for VMware Horizon View
clients. F5 is able to deliver several capabilities unique to the APM/Horizon View solution, including:
• Single namespace, which reduces the burden on administrators of managing user access to a globally distributed VDI, while ensuring that users are always securely connected to their preferred desktop at the appropriate data center.
• PCoIP proxy, simplifying Horizon View architectures, and delivering hardened security and increased scalability. (BTW, F5 was the first vendor to provide this functionality.)
• Secure remote and local access, and integration with AAA services, and single sign-on (SSO) which streamlines the user experience, while improving both security and productivity.
Learn how Cisco helps lower the architectural, cost, and deployment barriers to small cell deployments in enterprises of every size.
To learn more, please visit: www.cisco.com/go/smallcell and or Tweet us @CiscoSP360 for questions and comments.
SD-WAN brings today's Software Defined Networking concepts and principles to the world of Wide Area Networks (WAN) allowing IT Managers and Network Operators to provision, manage and upgrade services and network functions (Routing, Security, Threat Management, etc.) in a more agile and efficient way by:
Tightly integrating a massively scalable set of network functions for ease of operations and management
Virtualizing key network functions at the customer premise
Routing functions
VPN (securely encapsulating customer data)
Internet Security and Firewall
Focusing on real-time visibility, analytics and configurability
Features include application based routing and local internet access
Can support load balancing/failover between Comcast connection and customer’s existing network
Supports multiple WAN topologies
Any-to-Any
Hub/Spoke
Using the Public Internet as the underlying transport
Comcast Business Internet
Comcast Ethernet Dedicated Internet
Off-Net partner broadband
Replacing dedicated customer premise equipment with a Comcast owned/managed universal CPE (uCPE) deployed at each customer site
Across the US
PAETEC’s Business Continuity expertise provides
a comprehensive blend of services and solutions
that can be tailored to create a personalized business
continuity plan that fits the specific needs of your
business.
In these slides, VP of Product, Peter Sprygada and Senior Product Manager, Alex Degitz, talk through the latest features & enhancements to Itential’s SaaS platform for network & cloud automation.
Modern Network Compliance: The Journey of a CustomerItential
This webinar slideshow showcases real-world examples of how Itential users achieved network compliance. Senior Technical Marketing Engineer Rich Martin review why configuration compliance is a requirement to achieve network security, reliability, and performance goals as well as show these principles in action with real-world customer examples and results.
The market is crowded with SD-WAN providers—from pure-play startups to more established infrastructure and WAN specialists. With so many vendors, each offering different SD-WAN features and functions, how do you find the solution that's right for your organization?
Before you engage with SD-WAN providers or assemble your shortlist, learn how to choose the right solution for your organization and evaluate the four critical factors of SD-WAN: architecture, performance, security, and provisioning/management.
Learn more: https://rvbd.ly/2vmZoNW
Modern Network Compliance: How Network Compliance Accelerates AutomationItential
The network teams' ultimate goal is to automate across their entire network, but when the state of large areas of the network is unknown, many times network teams feel that the risk of automation is too high. But the truth that they often fail to realize is that you will never have a compliant network without automation.
Ensure Application Availability Between Hybrid Data CentersF5 Networks
Preview the Ensure Application Availability Between Hybrid Data Centers webinar. Learn real-world strategies for building a hybrid infrastructure to support your on- and off-premises applications.
This is the second of four webinars in the F5 Networks State of Application Delivery 2015 series. The webinars are based on the survey results that make of the "State of Application Delivery in 2015" report, which highlights strategic initiatives are driving application deployments including the most important trend for the next two to five years.
Download the report and watch all the webinars here: f5.com/SOAD
F5 Certified! Program Overview and UpdateF5 Networks
What does it mean to be F5 Certified? F5 Networks Certified exams test the skills and knowledge necessary to be successful when working with today’s application delivery challenges. F5 Professional Certification represents a new breed of technologist capable of manipulating the entire application stack from traditional network knowledge all the way to advanced application layer understanding, with a unique capability to integrate the two. An F5 Networks certification gives technologists a high-quality, credible certification that is a differentiator for candidates and a strategic, competitive advantage for organizations employing them.
Learn more at www.F5.com/education/certification
TELUS’ Network-as-as-Service (previously known as TELUS Smart Networks) a new set of services that is built on Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) technologies. When combined with process automation it transforms the way TELUS offers and provides services. NaaS is composed of three broad categories: network connectivity, on-premises capabilities such as Wi-Fi, and cloud-based value added services.
Silver Peak & Innovation Network Technologies (InNet)
Evolve IT: Why Performance Matters When Building Your New SD-WAN, Not all SD-WAN is Created Equal eBook
While F5 supports the whole range of the Horizon Suite, this reference architecture focuses on the Horizon View component of VMware’s overall End User Computing solutions.
F5 APM VE, optimized for VMware Horizon View, delivers secure access, traffic management, and simplified deployment for VMware Horizon View
clients. F5 is able to deliver several capabilities unique to the APM/Horizon View solution, including:
• Single namespace, which reduces the burden on administrators of managing user access to a globally distributed VDI, while ensuring that users are always securely connected to their preferred desktop at the appropriate data center.
• PCoIP proxy, simplifying Horizon View architectures, and delivering hardened security and increased scalability. (BTW, F5 was the first vendor to provide this functionality.)
• Secure remote and local access, and integration with AAA services, and single sign-on (SSO) which streamlines the user experience, while improving both security and productivity.
Learn how Cisco helps lower the architectural, cost, and deployment barriers to small cell deployments in enterprises of every size.
To learn more, please visit: www.cisco.com/go/smallcell and or Tweet us @CiscoSP360 for questions and comments.
SD-WAN brings today's Software Defined Networking concepts and principles to the world of Wide Area Networks (WAN) allowing IT Managers and Network Operators to provision, manage and upgrade services and network functions (Routing, Security, Threat Management, etc.) in a more agile and efficient way by:
Tightly integrating a massively scalable set of network functions for ease of operations and management
Virtualizing key network functions at the customer premise
Routing functions
VPN (securely encapsulating customer data)
Internet Security and Firewall
Focusing on real-time visibility, analytics and configurability
Features include application based routing and local internet access
Can support load balancing/failover between Comcast connection and customer’s existing network
Supports multiple WAN topologies
Any-to-Any
Hub/Spoke
Using the Public Internet as the underlying transport
Comcast Business Internet
Comcast Ethernet Dedicated Internet
Off-Net partner broadband
Replacing dedicated customer premise equipment with a Comcast owned/managed universal CPE (uCPE) deployed at each customer site
Across the US
PAETEC’s Business Continuity expertise provides
a comprehensive blend of services and solutions
that can be tailored to create a personalized business
continuity plan that fits the specific needs of your
business.
In these slides, VP of Product, Peter Sprygada and Senior Product Manager, Alex Degitz, talk through the latest features & enhancements to Itential’s SaaS platform for network & cloud automation.
Cyber Futuristics performed a detailed analysis of Systweak processes and tools. The Group lacked a scalable VPN solution, eliminating employees to access any application, server, and resources available on the networkvirtually.
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Visit here to learn more: https://thinkpalm.com/case-studies/intelligent-home-wi-fi-solutions/
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Security today is everything. The F5 BIG -IP ASM provides the ultimate line of defense again web application attacks. At AMPS GLOBAL, we have hands-on experience in designing, implementing, and managing complex ASM policies to protect against real-life threats. Our engineers are certified and have experience in deploying ASM policies that can demonstrate a tangible improvement to the company online security posture. Our ASM Health Check Service is designed to improve the Web Application Firewall that guards your critical online business apps.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
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Speakers:
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Charlie Greenberg, Host
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However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
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Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
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GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
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Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Monitoring Java Application Security with JDK Tools and JFR Events
Case Study: Large UK Utilities Company
1. Key Challenges
• Hassle-free remote access
solution allowing employees
to access corporate apps
• Integration with existing
virtual data centre
infrastructure
• Documentation and
be-spoke training
AMPS Delivery
• Delivered a solution to meet
our client’s current and
future remote access
requirements
• Integrated the F5 Virtual
Appliance with the VMware
infrastructure
• Delivered be-spoke training
to the security team
post-installation
F5 Remote Access Solution To Provide Secure Access To
Corporate Network Applications
Company Summary
This company holds a license to provide water and
sewage services to million of people in the UK. The
company also provides sewers, wastewater, and water
treatment works.
Requirement
Our client had a requirement to deliver a highly available
and resilient remote access infrastructure for their mobile
workforce. The key requirement was to provide a solution
that was simple, using F5 VPN auto connect, allowing
users to gain access to internal network applications with
minimum hassle.
Solution
The company selected F5 Networks as the preferred
vendor. AMPS GLOBAL was selected as the consulting
provider to integrate the overall solution. Our expertise in
virtual infrastructures allowed us to design and deploy a
solution based on F5 BIG-IP Virtual Appliance running F5
APM. This allowed our client to deliver network access to
remote workers in fast and secure manner. Strong
protection to network resources was assured by using F5
AAA (Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting) and
SSO (Single Sign On) allowing a hassle-free access to
corporate network resources .
Business Benefits
• Increased employees productivity
• Leverage the F5 platform investment
AMPS Global (Trading name of AMEINFOSEC LIMITED) | Phone: +44 (0) 203 500 0022 | Mayfair, London W1J 6BD, UK | http://www.amps-global.com
ps@amps-global.com
Case Study:
Large UK Utilities Company