Secures data pipelines without slowing down Dev.
Rating: 9 out of 10
IncentivizedUse Cases and Deployment Scope
We are using F5 Cloud API Security to monitor and govern all external-facing APIs across our genomics data platforms and third-party clinical integrations. It sits right behind our API gateway layer and works across both our on-prem research servers and cloud-hosted ML pipelines. Our services move quickly, and F5 helps maintain our security posture throughout it all.
Pros
- It auto-discovers APIs, even the ones engineers forget to document. Then profiles them without needing changes to our codebase.
- Shadow API exposure.
- It's pretty decent at abnormal behavior detection.
Cons
- Their dashboard, in my opinion, has been over-engineered. The insight is there, but bringing it to the surface is no easy task. We've had to build Grafana visualizations.
Likelihood to Recommend
We currently have hundreds of microservices, with another over a hundred publicly accessible APIs serving everything from data collection to results reporting. F5 sits across all of them and covers their monitoring and governance. Oh, it's great at that.