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Cloudflare Application Services Workshop (CFASW)
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About the course

Prerequisites:

The knowledge and skills that the learner should have before attending this course are as follows:

  • Cloudflare Account, sign up
  • Complete the following courses in Cloudflare University before the workshop:
  • App Security: WAF 101
  • Review the Cloudflare Fundamentals

Have a general knowledge of the following:

  • Application Performance
  • Application Security

Course Objectives:

After you complete this course the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:

  • Deploy, accelerate and secure web applications
  • General understanding of the Cloudflare, architecture and portfolio
  • Ability of general troubleshooting for most common issues
Course content

Day 1:

  • Presentation of Cloudflare, architecture, and portfolio
  • Presentation of Services: L7 DDoS protection, WAF, SSL/TLS, and DNS

 LAB:

  • Dashboard presentation (Account level, Zone level, RBAC)
  • Zone Onboarding (Full/CNAME)
  • SSL/TLS configuration (different types of certificates to deploy)
  • WAF configuration (Managed Rulesets, Custom Rules, RL)
  • Analytics: Investigation (different attacks can be simulated)
  • Troubleshooting (most common issues)

Day 2:

  • Summary of the first day, Q&A
  • Presentation of Services: CDN, Load Balancing, and Bot Management

 LAB:

  • CDN (Configuration, Analytics, Default Behavior)
  • Rules (Cache, Transform)
  • Load Balancing (*** in the case of 2 origins)
  • Bot Management (Analytics, known bots list, and WAF rules to stop malicious activity generated by the bots)
  • Troubleshooting (most common issues)