5 Distributed Cloud API Security Review
Updated July 23, 2025

5 Distributed Cloud API Security Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with F5 Distributed Cloud API Security

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
  • Reduce response time
  • Reduce IT personal
  • Mitigate ddos impact
Ease of use and good support
Can exploit dpu acceleration

Do you think F5 Distributed Cloud API Security delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with F5 Distributed Cloud API Security's feature set?

Yes

Did F5 Distributed Cloud API Security live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of F5 Distributed Cloud API Security go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy F5 Distributed Cloud API Security again?

Yes

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

F5 Distributed Cloud API Security Feature Ratings

Authentication and Authorization
3
Data Protection
5
Rate Limiting
5
Audit Logging
8
Input Validation
7
Content Filtering
7
Denial of Service (DoS) Protection
7
Security Notification and Alerts
8
API Key Management
8
Cross-origin Resource Sharing (CORS) Protection
8

Using F5 Distributed Cloud API Security

10 - The are CI/CD App developers who deploy/push apps to our end users
2 - 1-2 pax experienced in the F5 product to give quick support; comprehensive support will come from F5 field support personnel
  • Discovery and Protection of Shadow APIs
  • Protecting Multi‑Cloud API Gateways
  • Securing AI / LLM Inference Endpoints
  • API Analytics, Threat Forensics & SecOps Integration
  • CI/CD Integration—Shift-Left Security
  • automated protection
  • real-time bot/DDoS blocking
  • insights into endpoint usage.
useful to our team work; subject to budget approval from management

Comments

  • Sherry Arnold | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Thanks for taking the time to provide feedback. We appreciate your input

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