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F5 Distributed Cloud API Security Reviews and Ratings

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Secures data pipelines without slowing down Dev.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use 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.

Vetted Review

Review SVA

Rating: 6 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Vetted Review

API security

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Vetted Review

F5 API Cloud Security - A great Product to use for API based applications

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use F5 Distributed Cloud API Security to access SWIFT Financial network APIs for pre-validation, GPI and Swift Ref

Pros

  • scalable
  • more secured
  • on-demand service availability

Cons

  • Provide more use case scenarios
  • GUI enhancement
  • Enhanced dashboard to view API usage history and logs

Likelihood to Recommend

Any project using API and want to use cloud services from third parties can use F5

5 Distributed Cloud API Security Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We deploy F5 Distributed Cloud API Security to monitor data traffic in real time to detect anomaly behavior, to thwart potential cyber incident

Pros

  • Real time monitor
  • Meta data extraction
  • Traffic alert

Cons

  • Distributed monitor
  • Meta data encryption
  • Higher throughput

Likelihood to Recommend

Suitable for internet traffic monitor... Not fast enough to handle Telco line rate data. Can exploit gpu dpu for acceleration

Vetted Review

F5 Distributed Cloud API Security Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Due increasing utility of APIs to third party resources, need for security to defeat malicious interruption. Besides API security, use to enforce micro segmentation policies

Pros

  • API security
  • Micro segmentation
  • Resiliency

Cons

  • Fault finding. Would be good to have better visibility to assist with trouble shooting

Likelihood to Recommend

Thus far, our use cases are fairly plain vanilla. Yet to encounter less appropriate scenarios

Vetted Review

F5 Distributed Cloud API Security Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use F5 Distributed Cloud API Security As a protection of our solutions, we have own solutions and we use sappies, different apps.

Pros

  • It is easy to implement and I think it's one of the most friendly solutions in this aspect.

Cons

  • Probably training, more training for final users.

Likelihood to Recommend

Basically, when you have many applications on cloud, you can use this product and if you have integrations with other applications, it is very useful. This application, this is solution.

Vetted Review

Security clearance remedy and vulnerability scanning

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use F5 Distributed Cloud API Security for Load balancing

Pros

  • Load balance
  • Security
  • Application

Cons

  • Layer 7
  • Application

Likelihood to Recommend

I give F5 Distributed Cloud API Security a ten out of ten for how it handles security clearance remedy and vulnerability scanning.

Vetted Review