Big-IP
Mention 2 Big-IP competitors.
Citrix NetScaler and Kemp.
What does the essentials package come with?
Access to our private network: waf, bot, and api protection.
What AI solutions does F5 offer?
Guardrails and Red Team, SurePath (AI Workforce Security), AI Gateway, and AI Data Delivery.
OSI stack.
Networking layer framework.
When was F5 founded?
1996
What component do you need to deploy VE's in your environment?
Hypervisor
Mention 3 improvements from WAF to AI enabled WAF.
1. ML risk engine.
2. Gives context of CVEs found and suggests virtual patches.
3. Reduces false positives to 1%.
Cost of SurePath and minimum amount of employees to qualify.
$5 per user per month. 500 min. employees.
SSLO
SSL offloading or SSL orchestrator.
What company did we acquire as the backbone of XC?
Volterra
What percentage of the ADC market do we have as of 2026?
71%
One-click module recently added to platform.
One-click CDN.
What's the difference between prompt injection and jailbreaking?
Prompt injection provides a hypothetical context where there are no rules. Jailbreaking is when the attacker passes himself as the admin. with authority to bypass the model's security measures.
RAG
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Where did Paul work before this?
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Difference between perpetual vs. software.
Perpetual is capex, software opex.
What is synthetic monitoring?
Live traffic simulation to verify how changes in configuration will work in production.
How can Guardrails be deployed?
MCP
Model Context Protocol
Where did Frooch spend 7-months previous to joining F5?
Fishing in Alaska.
What use case does Big-IP Next have?
AI data delivery
OWASP API Top 10 vulnerability that XC API Secuirty protects against.
BOLA and BOPLA.
What does SurePath need to deploy on customer's environment?
SASE (Zscaler, Netskope), CASB, or MDM (Jamf, Intune).
SDWAN
Software-Defined Wide Area Network
How many cold calls did Shayne have to make when breaking into real estate?
1,000