F5 Distributed Cloud API Security Reviews & Ratings 2025

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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.

Rating: 10 out of 10

May 12, 2025

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We 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...

Mattia Deidda

Engineer - Engineering

Software Engineer

AESYS Srl

4 years of experience

F5 Distributed Cloud API Security Review

Rating: 9 out of 10

May 5, 2025

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As a protection of our solutions, we have own solutions and we use sappies, different apps.

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Manager

10 years of experience

F5 WAAP becoming like BIG IP.

Rating: 8 out of 10

April 14, 2025

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Its features are used to secure our web-based application and API gateways. Business Problems: 1. Safely secure customer transactions via digital apps. 2. It prevents all cybe...

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Engineer

2 years of experience

API Detection, Analysis and Blocking in one Product

Rating: 9 out of 10

February 28, 2025

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We do POV on F5 Distributed Cloud API Security

Sai Deepak Kunchey

Administrator - Engineering

Network Engineer

CIGNA

1 year of experience

Machine Learning and Fine-Grained Threat Identification platform.

Rating: 10 out of 10

December 26, 2024

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Cloud API Security helps detect and prevent threats specifically targeted at APIs.

Mohan Janarthanan

General Manager - Information Technology

AVP IT

NOVAC technology solutions ltd

1 year of experience

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Product Demos

F5 Distributed Cloud Web App and API Protection: API Discovery and Protection

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Features

API Security

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8.9

Avg 8.9

8.8
Data Protection
(17) Ratings
Protects the data in transit between the API and the client by encrypting it using secure protocols such as SSL/TLS.
8.7
Audit Logging
(16) Ratings
Records all API activity, including authentication attempts, access requests, and data modifications, for compliance and troubleshooting purposes.
8.9
Input Validation
(16) Ratings
Validates and sanitizes user input to prevent common attack vectors such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and command injection.
8.5
Content Filtering
(16) Ratings
Scans the content of API requests and responses for potentially malicious or unwanted content, such as malware or sensitive data, to prevent data leakage and protect against attacks.
8.9
Denial of Service (DoS) Protection
(16) Ratings
Mitigates DoS attacks by monitoring the API traffic for suspicious patterns and blocking or rate limiting requests from potential malicious sources.
9.2
Security Notification and Alerts
(16) Ratings
Sends real-time notifications and alerts when security events or anomalies are detected, allowing prompt investigation and response to potential threats
9.1
API Key Management
(16) Ratings
Provides mechanisms to generate, manage, and revoke API keys or tokens that are used for authentication and access control.
8.8
Cross-origin Resource Sharing (CORS) Protection
(15) Ratings
Enforces restrictions on cross-origin requests, preventing unauthorized access to resources on the API server from web pages served by other domains.

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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

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Noname Security, Salt Security API Protection Platform, and Cequence Security are common alternatives for F5 Distributed Cloud API Security.

Reviewers rate Security Notification and Alerts highest, with a score of 9.2.

The most common users of F5 Distributed Cloud API Security are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

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Machine Learning and Fine-Grained Threat Identification platform.

Rating: 10 out of 10

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December 26, 2024

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Mohan Janarthanan

AVP IT

NOVAC technology solutions ltd (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees)

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cloud API Security helps detect and prevent threats specifically targeted at APIs.

Pros

Rate Limiting and Quotas.
API Threat Protection.
Automated API Discovery.

Cons

More accurate detection of advanced persistent threats (APTs) targeting APIs.
A greater emphasis on checking APIs' schema and contract may prevent them from accepting misconfigurations or malicious input.
More customized, dynamic, and targeted protection for high-value APIs or high-risk user groups.

Likelihood to Recommend

Expanded Threat Intelligence Integration and Increased integration with external threat intelligence sources may increase the accuracy of threat detection and response.

F5 Distributed Cloud API Security Feature Ratings

API Security (10)

91%

9.1

Authentication and Authorization: 100%
10.0
Data Protection: 100%
10.0
Rate Limiting: 100%
10.0
Audit Logging: 90%
9.0
Input Validation: 90%
9.0
Content Filtering: 100%
10.0
Denial of Service (DoS) Protection: 80%
8.0
Security Notification and Alerts: 80%
8.0
API Key Management: 80%
8.0
Cross-origin Resource Sharing (CORS) Protection: 90%
9.0

Return on Investment

F5 Distributed Cloud API Security mitigates many API-related security threats, including bot attacks, DDoS, data breaches, and unauthorized access attempts.
F5 Distributed Cloud API Security uses robust threat detection, machine learning, and real-time monitoring for speedier identification.
Reductions in security events result in fewer breaches, reduced downtime, and lower attack remediation costs.

Usability

9

Granular Access Control and Rate Limiting were too good, providing complete API security across the organization.

Implementation Rating

9

The sensitivity of the APIs, the kinds of requests they process, and their accessibility to the public internet will all affect the security settings and rules.