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
Likelihood to Recommend
It’s well suited for a customer that is deploying this greenfield. A customer with an existing F5 product is less likely to switch over, unless they don’t want to use hardware anymore.
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Verified User
Technician in Research & Development (5001-10,000 employees)
We have Hybrid applications which have both API and WEB traffic on the same channel. So we did use F5 Distributed Cloud API Security and discover for providing more security for API traffic.
Pros
API Discovery
Crawling
App scanning
Cons
Integration with onprem
Likelihood to Recommend
If asked, I think I am likely to recommend F5 Distributed Cloud API Security to a colleague If you have an Hybrid environment.
In our organization, we use F5 Distributed Cloud API Security For deploying applications securely and with authentication and authorization,
Pros
Web application firewall
DNS migration to the F5 XC
Global application resiliency
Security policy
Cons
OAuth JWT token refresh doesn't work
Improve support for legacy applications.
Likelihood to Recommend
If asked, I think I am likely to recommend F5 Distributed Cloud API Security to a colleague for Saas application deployment with WAAP (web application and application protection) and authentication.
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Verified User
Employee in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)
to have visibility and total control over our ecosystem
tener visibilidad y control total sobre nuestro ecosistema
Pros
microservices
cloud
microservices
nube
Cons
cloud
multicloud
nube
multinube
Likelihood to Recommend
It allows us to have a Single Point of Control
nos permite tener un Punto Unico de control
<i>This review was originally written in Spanish and has been translated into English using a third-party translation tool. While we strive for accuracy, some nuances or meanings may not be perfectly captured.</i>
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.
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Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (51-200 employees)
Es una gran herramienta de confianza que a nuestros clientes de servicios corporativos le transmitimos que sus datos personales y su seguridad es importante para nosotros. podemos implementar fw del tipo WAF para controlar el tráfico de nuestros servicios y APIs. usamos además conectividad hacia redes externas es decir podemos colocar reglas como si de ruteo se tratase.
It's a great tool for building trust with our corporate services clients, as we convey that their personal data and security are important to us. We can implement WAF-type software to control traffic for our services and APIs. We also use connectivity to external networks, meaning we can set rules as if it were routing.
Pros
Detectar vulnerabilidades
Detect vulnerabilities
Monitoreo preventivo
Preventive monitoring
Flexibilidad de cambios
Flexibility of changes
Cons
SaaS
SVA
IT
Likelihood to Recommend
Facilidad en la comprensión de sus productos. La observabilidsd que permite darnos entre los puntos o flujos que se dan en la comunicación de nuestros saas, la capacidad de fungir como sniffer. Y potencial escalabilidad con el uso de la inteligencia artificial nos asegura evolución para la siguiente década. Finalmente el soporte es de primer nivel.
Ease of understanding their products. The observability that allows us to identify the points or flows that occur in our SaaS communication, the ability to act as a sniffer. And potential scalability with the use of artificial intelligence ensures our evolution for the next decade. Finally, the support is top-notch.
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Verified User
Administrative Assistant in Engineering (10,001+ employees)
We use the F5 Distributed Cloud API Security to secure our APIs that we discovered with API Discovery. The module allow us to block paths and methods that we don't know we are exposed.
Pros
Rate limiting
Block paths
Block methods
Cons
Licensing method
Likelihood to Recommend
In a company where the APIs are not documented very well and in some cases where does not exist document at all.
