API Security

Full API Lifecycle Security

Leave no API Behind: ensure efficient delivery, complete and continuous visibility, dynamic detection of vulnerabilities and threats, plus consistent enforcement across the API fabric underlying your digital business. F5 provides a unified approach to securing APIs, combining continuous discovery, and the detection of API threats with critical protection and enforcement functionality acrossyour APIs, and the services they enable, plus the systems and data they access. With F5, organizations can protect their sensitive data, enhance application and API security, and maintain operational efficiency as the API threat surface continues to evolve as new endpoints continue getting added and updates are implemented at an increasingly rapid pace.

Different Ways to Deploy Your API Security

DEPLOYMENT OPTIONS

SaaS

Enjoy cloud-based flexibility, delivering complete API discovery, threat detection, monitoring and protection while retaining centralized visibility of your API threat surface and security policy settings.
Consider: Distributed Cloud API Security

Hybrid

Seamlessly integrate with existing data planes including BIG-IP, NGINX and 3^rd party gateways for out-of-band API discovery and threat detection – no additional proxy or traffic redirection necessary.
Consider: Distributed Cloud API Security

On-Premises (Software)

Extend API Security anywhere your business demands including air-gapped, or cloud constrained environments, easily integrates with BIG-IP and is implemented within an organizations own infrastructure, including local lifecycle management, and monitoring.
Consider: F5 API Security Local Edition

Products and Services

Unknown and unmonitored APIs can expose an organization’s critical services, data and intellectual property. The OWASP API Top 10 highlights the variety of threats APIs face including attacks attempting to exfiltrate data, consume or abuse resources, gaps in access and authentication, standard injection attempts and security misconfiguration. To help organizations combat this, F5 delivers a comprehensive approach to protecting API’s throughout their full-lifecycle from build and test through to release, operate and monitor. It enables organizations to maintain business velocity with modern, API enabled app deployments while seamlessly protecting against API specific threats.

Distributed Cloud API Security

SaaS with hybrid deployment flexibility, delivering comprehensive API discovery, centralized threat detection and visibility, plus integrated protection.

F5 API Security Local Edition

Delivers critical visibility, threat insights and governance of APIs within air-gapped, regulated, or cloud-constrained environments.

Use Cases

API Discovery

F5 provides multiple lenses of API discovery from code through production – combining analysis of code repositories, with traffic, and client-side web crawling to dramatically improve API visibility, deliver continuous oversight, and identification of an organization’s APIs.

API Threat Detection

F5 provides a variety of mechanisms to identify vulnerabilities and anomalies in APIs and API behavior that can be indicators of an attack or compromise including automated vulnerability testing and runtime detections across the OWASP API Top 10 to help organizations address security risks across the API lifecycle.

API Protection

F5 empowers organizations to safeguard against business logic abuse and threats targeting APIs, pairing robust detection with integrated in-line enforcement – helping block risky endpoints, regulate API behavior, prevent malicious exploits, and secure sensitive data from exposure through APIs.

Resources

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