F5 BIG-IP Next is the next generation of BIG-IP software built to reduce operational complexity, improve performance, strengthen security, and enhance observability, carrying forward the comprehensive suite of advanced BIG-IP TMOS functionality developed over the past 20 years. BIG-IP Next introduces a centralized, API-centric, and automation-friendly framework, making it faster and easier for DevOps, NetOps, and SecOps teams to deploy and manage critical application services. This lab is built with the latest technology in learning platform delivery.

WWT's ATC CrowdStrike and Zscaler Integrated lab exists to showcase the integration between CrowdStrike's Falcon Platform, Zscaler Private Access and Zscaler Client Connector through relevant use cases.

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), coined by Gartner in 2019, is a solution that blends networking and security into cloud-scale architecture that optimizes end user performance and improves security for an organization. Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) is a secure Internet and web gateway cloud-delivered SASE service that sits between the users and the internet. ZIA will inspect every byte of traffic inline across multiple security techniques providing full protection from web and internet threats. The SASE Lab Series will look to explore the capabilities of the solution to provide you with a "rubber meets road" understanding of these technologies and how SASE can be applied in your company.

The Palo Alto NGFW Foundations Lab is a capability of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) designed to provide an environment to gain hands-on experience with the fundamental features of Palo Alto's solution. The environment that supports the lab is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure.

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), coined by Gartner in 2019, is a solution that blends networking and security into cloud scale architecture that optimizes end user performance and improves security for an organization. With the Zscaler and SD-WAN integration, you can rapidly gain access to cloud-delivered security in minutes. This market leading API automation makes it very fast and agile to deploy and manage the network and security environment of hundreds or even thousands of remote sites.

Elastic Security provides a different approach to EDR by combing EDR and SIEM capabilities which leads to reduced mean time to detect and respond to threats. Elastic Security for endpoint prevents ransomware and malware, detects advanced threats and arms responders with vital investigative context, such as prioritized detections to help stop alert fatigue.

WWT's ATC Palo Alto Cortex XDR Proving Ground Lab provides a consolidated solution built around Cortex XDR, the Palo Alto firewall, Windows endpoints and Windows servers to demonstrate how the Cortex XDR Agent protects against threats. The goal of Cortex XDR is to increase the operational efficiency of the security operations center. Cortex XDR accomplishes this by reducing alerts by combining similar events, stitching together logs from different sources and preventing as many threats as possible early in the attack cycle. Cortex XDR goes beyond the traditional EDR approach of using only endpoint data to identify and respond to threats by applying machine learning across all your enterprise, network, cloud and endpoint data. This approach enables you to quickly find and stop targeted attacks, insider abuse and remediate compromised endpoints. Cortex XDR combines functionality from Endpoint Protection, Endpoint Detection and Response, Network Traffic Analysis and User Behavior Analytics into a single console. This lab consists of servers running common applications that include Palo Alto Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Cortex XSOAR, Palo Alto VM-Series firewall, Active Directory, Windows IIS and SQL server, and several Windows 10 workstations. You will access the environment using a Windows-based jump host from which you can browse web consoles and open RDP/SSH sessions.

This lab exists to provide hands-on experience with the integration between ZIA, CrowdStrike Falcon, and Okta through relevant use cases. First, this lab can be used to see how the integration between CrowdStrike Falcon and ZIA can ensure administrators have end-to-end insight into the threat landscape to minimize attack surface and deliver rapid threat detection and response. On top of this, the lab allows users to see how Okta can integrate with both CrowdStrike and Zscaler to strengthen a company's Zero Trust profile, enhance threat detection during authentication and monitor the intersection of security and access management.

In today's cloud-centric, BYOD-driven and distributed microservices landscape, traditional security measures such as VPNs and perimeter defenses struggle to keep pace with the increasing need for enterprise security. Implicitly trusting entities within a network poses significant risks, necessitating a paradigm shift. Enter Zero Trust—an approach that requires independent security for every enterprise asset and authenticates and authorizes user and process identities at every level. This lab explores the critical role of OAuth in enabling a Zero Trust architecture and allows lab users to implement & test the OAuth Solution.