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F5 ASM

17 lessons · Beginner to advanced

Policies, staging, learning, signatures, tuning, API security, logs and recovery.

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FortiWeb

17 lessons · Beginner to advanced

Server policies, profiles, ML, signatures, APIs, troubleshooting and HA.

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WAF Training Hub: F5 ASM and FortiWeb Courses

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Choose your WAF training block

Learn web application security in English through structured lessons, practical labs and knowledge checks. Choose a product below; each block has its own course guide and 17 separate lessons.

F5 ASM

17 lessons · Beginner to advanced

BIG-IP traffic flow, security policies, staging, learning, signatures, parameter constraints, false-positive tuning, API protection, logs, HA and recovery.

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FortiWeb

17 lessons · Beginner to advanced

Deployment modes, virtual servers, server policies, protection profiles, signatures, constraints, machine learning, logs, API security, bot defense and recovery.

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Start with understanding, then configure

Each course uses a fictional bookshop so you can follow a request from the browser to the application. Lessons define unfamiliar terms, explain the relevant control, give a bounded lab, and ask you to interpret the result. Begin with Lesson 01 in your chosen block.

What you need

You can read the foundation lessons without a device. Hands-on exercises require a properly licensed, isolated and authorized product lab with a test application and synthetic data. Feature behavior depends on the installed version, platform and license. No lesson asks you to test an unapproved public target.

Meet your instructor

Harpreet Singh Virdi, CISSP, CCSP. Technical focus: WAF and application security, cloud security, identity, endpoint hardening and vulnerability management.

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Independent educational material

WAF Protect is not affiliated with F5 or Fortinet. Lessons provide explanations and expected lab outcomes; they have not been executed on those products for this publication. Product documentation, supervised practice and continued operational experience remain essential.

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