Secures data pipelines without slowing down Dev.
July 03, 2025

Secures data pipelines without slowing down Dev.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with F5 Distributed Cloud API Security

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.
  • The biggest one for us so far has been a secure-by-default culture in API development. This now reduces our onboarding time by about 20 percent, all thanks to the inline control and templated policies.
  • Uncountable value in prevention of costly data leakages.
The bulk of the work lies in the onboarding phase. During the rollout, our team spent 3 weeks building custom policies and fine-tuning thresholds. After that, everything else has been a smooth ride in usability.
We ran a short POC with Salt. Its data classification and attack replay features were impressive. What held us back was the limited support for hybrid deployments and poor integration into our CI/CD pipelines, as F5 did.

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?

Yes

Would you buy F5 Distributed Cloud API Security again?

Yes

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.

F5 Distributed Cloud API Security Feature Ratings

API Security
8.5
Authentication and Authorization
9
Data Protection
10
Rate Limiting
6
Audit Logging
9
Input Validation
8
Content Filtering
7
Denial of Service (DoS) Protection
10
Security Notification and Alerts
7
API Key Management
9
Cross-origin Resource Sharing (CORS) Protection
10

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