F5 Distributed Cloud API Security: Comprehensive API Protection
Updated June 08, 2024
F5 Distributed Cloud API Security: Comprehensive API Protection
Score 7 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with F5 Distributed Cloud API Security
We use F5 Distributed Cloud API Security on a daily basis, as it automatically recognises and organises every API endpoint across many apps and creates rules based on app-to-app and API-to-API patterns. It solves our major problem, which is security, by always scanning traffic to avoid suspicious activities. We will definitely use this for a long time, as its automation tools make our work easy.
- Always scan traffic to avoid suspicious activities
- It automatically recognizes and organizes every API endpoint across many apps and creates rules based on app-to-app and API-to-API patterns.
- Its automation tools make our work easy
- Provide additional and customisable reporting features to help you understand the API environment.
- Improve the user experience and provide simple steps to increase implantation.
- Time and resource savings and improved security posture
- Enhanced Visibility and insights, which helps us alot to grow
- Improved Customer Experience
I chose F5 Distributed Cloud API Security because it provides an entire solution for API security, including API discovery, security, scalability, and analytics. It also offers a positive security approach by interacting with CI/CD pipelines to record API changes and upload the current API structure to ensure proper API behaviour. It also supports several service discovery protocols and service mesh connectors, as well as automated alerting and SIEM integration.
Do you think F5 Distributed Cloud API Security delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with F5 Distributed Cloud API Security's feature set?
Yes
Did F5 Distributed Cloud API Security live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of F5 Distributed Cloud API Security go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy F5 Distributed Cloud API Security again?
Yes
F5 Distributed Cloud API Security Feature Ratings
Using F5 Distributed Cloud API Security
2 - Authentication, Discovering and Mapping They identifies all API endpoints mapped to applications, including shadow APIs and control over API behavior, authentication, and access, Analyze threat data, perform forensics, and troubleshoot. They identify potential issues and take action to neutralize threats.
6 - First, we have analysts and security engineers who use security solutions, classify threats, and create plans to reduce them.Second, software developers who assure the security of APIs and the smooth integration with F5 Distributed Cloud API Security.Thirdly, network administrators are in charge of monitoring and setting up the network infrastructure for easy setup and running.Fourth, experts in data analysis of security event data and pattern and trend detection to guide security plans.The IT managers in the role of managing the installation and use of F5 are the fifth group. The sixth group is API developers, who are in charge of designing and developing APIs.
- API Security Enforcement
- API Mapping
- Safety and Protection
- API Governance and Management
- Automating Api mapping
- Integration with CI/CD Pipelines
- Machine Learning-Based Traffic Monitoring
- Automated Policy Generation
- Advanced Threat Analytics
- More API Security Visualization and Optimization
- Advance security for IoT and Edge Devices
Evaluating F5 Distributed Cloud API Security and Competitors
- Cloud Solutions
- Integration with Other Systems
- Ease of Use
We needed to be able to find, track, and secure APIs in cloud, on-premises, and edge site contexts among others. This thorough protection against security flaws guaranteed that all of our API were safe from such attacks.It's ease of use makes our work comfotable.
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F5 Distributed Cloud API Security Implementation
- Implemented in-house
Yes - Phase 1: Management and Inspection: In this phase, we carefully analysed our API ecosystem, identifying every endpoint, reviewing traffic patterns, and spotting possible security threats. Phase 2: All APIs, together with their protocols, functionality, and security needs, were collected in an inventory. Phase 3: Installation and Regulation, in this case, blocked connections or communication and blocked unknown or unsuitable endpoints to stop the leak of private data. Phase 4 involves tracking and reporting. Phase 5 involves integrating and testing. Phase 6 involves repair and placement.
Change management was minimal - First of all change management was very minimal as it is essential to have quick contact with important parties in the operations, security, and development departments. One can systematically move out of the process and keep control by dividing it into smaller, simpler components. This strategy guarantees better integration and reduces the possibility of mistakes or errors.
- Broken object-level authorization, where permissions are wrongly set to prevent one user from accessing APIs to get to the data of another user
- Sensitive data leakage might result from unintentional API disclosure.
- While ensuring that security needs are fulfilled, security teams battle to handle the rapid growth in API endpoints and connections.
F5 Distributed Cloud API Security Support
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved Kept well informed No escalation required Immediate help available Support understands my problem Support cares about my success Quick Initial Response | None |
Actually, I purchased the premium support package for F5 Distributed Cloud API Security. The reason for this is that the solution provides strong API security capabilities, including systematic discovery, deep insights from AI and ML, and real-time threat detection and mitigation. The premium support ensures that I can quickly manage any issues that could occur while using the solution, protecting the security and integrity of my APIs.
Yes, I can explain a situation when F5 provided me with amazing support for their Distributed Cloud API Security solution. While implementing the solution, I encountered an error that required a fast solution. I called out to their support team, and within a few minutes, they successfully fixed the issue. This one above shows me the outstanding help that F5 offers.
Using F5 Distributed Cloud API Security
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Like to use Relatively simple Technical support not required Well integrated Consistent Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using Familiar | None |
- It identifies and maps APIs automatically across distributed cloud applications, enabling quick endpoint identification and management.
- It tracks API traffic and, in real time, finds errors.
- Provides a scalable SaaS-based platform that makes it easier to manage and secure APIs in several situations by assembling management and monitoring of API security.
- It can take a while to set up and configure the solution to meet specific API security requirements.
- Identifying and mapping every API between programmes can be challenging, particularly with shadow APIs.
- APIs are constantly changing, so new ones are created all the time and older ones are abandoned. This dynamic nature makes it hard to keep an exact and current inventory of APIs.