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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 of modern applications.

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Top Performing Features

  • Cross-origin Resource Sharing (CORS) Protection

    Enforces restrictions on cross-origin requests, preventing unauthorized access to resources on the API server from web pages served by other domains.

    Category average: 8.9

  • Denial of Service (DoS) Protection

    Mitigates DoS attacks by monitoring the API traffic for suspicious patterns and blocking or rate limiting requests from potential malicious sources.

    Category average: 8.8

  • Security Notification and Alerts

    Sends real-time notifications and alerts when security events or anomalies are detected, allowing prompt investigation and response to potential threats

    Category average: 8.7

Areas for Improvement

  • Data Protection

    Protects the data in transit between the API and the client by encrypting it using secure protocols such as SSL/TLS.

    Category average: 8.2

  • Content Filtering

    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.

    Category average: 8.1

  • Input Validation

    Validates and sanitizes user input to prevent common attack vectors such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and command injection.

    Category average: 7.8

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have F5s configured as load balancers and DNS, and I am applying WAF for application protection.

Tengo F5 configurados como balanceadores, DNS y estoy aplicando WAF para proteccion de mis aplicaciones

Pros

  • Anti-bot protection
  • DDS protection
  • proteccion antibot

Cons

  • Openshift protection

Return on Investment

  • I protect my services.
  • protejo mi servicios

Usability

ok

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

F5 has helped us with our corporate cloud, enabling us to instill greater confidence in our customers regarding high availability.

F5 nos a ayudado a la nuestra nube como Empresa, a nuestros clientes les generamos mayor confianza en una alta disponibilidad

Return on Investment

  • good impact

Usability

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Fewer operational headaches: instead of using three different tools for each cloud, we manage everything from a single location.

Menos dolores de cabeza operativos en vez de usar tres herramientas distintas para cada nube, controlamos todo desde un solo lugar

Pros

  • Find hidden APIs
  • Buscar API ocultas
  • DSPM
  • DLP

Cons

  • CSPM

Return on Investment

  • Time savings for DevSecOps
  • Ahorro de tiempo para DevSecOps

Usability

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, F5 Distributed Cloud API Security is used for Integrations

Pros

  • API Security
  • AI Agents
  • WAF

Cons

  • I think there is room for improvement in F5 Distributed Cloud API Security with More mitigations
  • I think Observability has room for improvement in F5 Distributed Cloud API Security

Return on Investment

  • Cost Optimization
  • Performance
  • Security

Usability

Alternatives Considered

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Other Software Used

Datadog

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Distributed Cloud to showcase it to our customers. Some of the business problems are mostly application security that our customers are looking to harden off. We have used API to simulate attacks and how XC can prevent it.

Pros

  • Remediate attacks
  • Automatically provision LBs
  • Creation of WAF policies

Cons

  • Better walk throughs
  • Links to kb

Return on Investment

  • We can showcase actual attacks to our customers
  • We have the ability to do creation in real time

Usability