SSLO 101: Introduction to SSL Visibility with SSL Orchestrator (AppWorld 2026 | 2 hours)ΒΆ


Note

This lab relies on UDF Blueprint: AppWorld 2026 - SSL Orchestrator 101

Developed and tested with BIG-IP 21.0 / SSL Orchestrator 13.0.


Insecurity through obscurity! Today, nearly all Internet traffic is protected with TLS/SSL encryption for privacy, confidentiality, and compliance reasons. However, how do you know if there are security threats hidden within this encrypted traffic? Cyber criminals are also using TLS encrypted channels to cover up their activities. Botnets and malware are establishing encrypted command and control connections and exfiltrating data without detection. Data breaches are now very common news headlines.

The F5 BIG-IP SSL Orchestrator solution ensures encrypted traffic can be decrypted, inspected by security controls, then re-encrypted at scale to deliver enhanced visibility and mitigate threats traversing the network. As a result, organizations maximize their investment in security tooling such as anti-malware, data loss prevention (DLP), ransomware detection, and next-generation firewalls (NGFW).

SSL Orchestrator helps to mitigate inbound and outbound threats including exploitation, callback, and data exfiltration. Policy-based traffic steering and dynamic service chaining enable organizations to intelligently manage encrypted traffic flows across the entire security chain with optimal availability.

This lab provides a hands-on introduction to the F5 BIG-IP SSL Orchestrator solution.

Expected time to complete: 90 minutes (excluding lab instructor presentations)

Pre-requisites: None.


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