A brilliant tool for API security.
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What is F5 Distributed Cloud API Security?
F5's Distributed Cloud API Security provides discovery and deep insights from use of AI/ML. It can be used to block API attacks in real time and eliminate vulnerabilities at their source. The SaaS-based portal enables users to manage and go…
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A brilliant tool for API security.
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May 12, 2025We are daily users of F5 Distributed Cloud API Security. The software helps us in protecting our APIs from security threats such unauthorised access and denial of service rela...
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What is F5 Distributed Cloud API Security?
A solution that discovers, controls, and mitigates threats to APIs Using machine learning.
F5® Distributed Cloud API Security is a solution to manage APIs across any data center or cloud using a simple and scalable architecture. It helps drive business velocity by enabling automated API deployments and management, while also protecting against API-specific threats.
Distributed Cloud API Security—part of the F5® Distributed Cloud Web App & API Protection (WAAP) solution—delivers advanced security controls in a SaaS-based solution to reduce tool sprawl and architectural complexity. Using advanced analytics on the data collected across users on its multi-tenant platform, Distributed Cloud API Security identifies behavioral anomalies and automatically updates to mitigate threats from users as well as internal apps.
Its discovery and insights leverage machine learning (ML), to block API attacks in real time and eliminate vulnerabilities at their source. A SaaS-based portal will manage and provide threat analytics, forensics, and troubleshooting for the user's application. Detect and block Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) API Top 10 attacks in real time by using automatic detection at the development and production layers.
F5 Distributed Cloud API Security Features
- Supported: oAutomated Discovery: generates API schema and swagger files --- discovers an apps APIs, monitor and map normal behavior, usage, methods and detects outliers to identify shadow APIs
- Supported: oVisualize API Usage: API mapping to more easily identify usage patterns of an apps APIs, correlate good and bad actor activity across all endpoints
- Supported: oImporting Swagger: from an existing schema, can monitor and secure documented API endpoints, methods, and payloads integrated with CI/CD pipelines
- Supported: oResponse Analysis: analyzes how servers are responding to queries, identifying persistent outliers that receive bad response codes, but persist in sending bad requests
- Supported: oBehavior and Time: analyses what endpoints are used, in what order and the frequency of API communications, to identify potentially malicious endpoints who are exhibiting behavior outside the norm
- Supported: oDetermine Response: blocks suspicious requests -- allow, rate limit or deny a client using APIs
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F5 Distributed Cloud API Security Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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F5's Distributed Cloud API Security provides discovery and deep insights from use of AI/ML. It can be used to block API attacks in real time and eliminate vulnerabilities at their source. The SaaS-based portal enables users to manage and go deep for threat analytics, forensics, and troubleshooting of modern applications.
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