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F5 Distributed Cloud 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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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 deep for threat analytics, forensics, and troubleshooting…

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Product Demos

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

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Product Details

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 TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

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.

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

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 12, 2025
MD
Vetted Review
Verified User
F5 Distributed Cloud API Security
4 years of experience
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 related attacks. Use of the software prevents downtime and ensures comprehensive security including DDos protection and L7 filtering. This tool also ensures automated orchestration security and access control.

F5 WAAP becoming like BIG IP.

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 14, 2025
Vetted Review
Verified User
F5 Distributed Cloud API Security
2 years of experience
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 cyber attacks and keeps applications available in alignment. Use Case: -It prevents data theft and keeps users' confidential data secured -It stops malicious intruders from launching Malicious content.
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