Full Lifecycle API Security
Leave no API Behind: ensure continuous protection for the fabric underlying your digital business.
APIs and Third-Party Integrations Drive Your Business
APIs are fundamental to the digital economy, serving as the bridge to modernize legacy apps, and the cornerstone of modern digital experiences. While APIs are subject to the same attacks that target web apps—namely exploits and abuse that lead to data breaches, account takeover, and downtime—API-based architectures introduce unforeseen risk from an ever-expanding plethora of third-party integrations and AI ecosystems.
F5 solutions secure APIs from code through testing into runtime across a burgeoning hybrid and multicloud digital fabric—reducing risk and complexity while improving operational efficiencies.
Distributed Security
F5 runs everywhere your APIs live—in the data center, across clouds, at the edge, behind your mobile apps, and within your third-party integrations.
Continuous Protection
F5 solutions provide universal visibility, actionable insights, and highly-trained machine learning that continuously discovers and automatically defends critical business logic behind APIs.
Consistent Enforcement
F5 security employs a positive security model based on API schema learning, automated risk scoring, and ML-based protections.
Confident Innovation
F5 aligns API security to digital strategy and streamlines operations to accelerate app modernization from development to deployment and maintenance.
How API Security Protects Your Business
Improve risk management while supporting digital innovation
Modernization is a business imperative. There is no other option. To succeed, you must streamline operations and align security to business strategy—differentiating from your competitors, meeting compliance requirements, and maintaining a resilient secure posture.
F5 API security reduces risk and complexity while improving operational efficiencies, so you maintain visibility and control across your entire digital ecosystem.
How F5 Helps
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Convenient, SaaS-Based Security
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Self-Managed API Security
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Managed Service WAF
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Penetration Testing
Cloud-delivered protection for all apps and APIs
Address modern application security challenges with dynamic API discovery, automated policy enforcement, and universal control across all apps and APIs powered by deep insights and machine learning.
Hardware and software, deployed on premises and in the cloud
Deploy on premises or in a private or public cloud and protect your applications as you see fit while leveraging a robust set of security defenses. A self-managed WAF supports any application architecture, from legacy three-tier web stacks to containers.
Cloud-based managed service that protects web apps and APIs from evolving threats
F5’s security managed services protect the apps and APIs that are critical to your business and extend your security team’s reach with 24x7 support from the F5 Security Operations Center (SOC).
AI-enhanced automated testing that uncovers your app and API risk surface
Find risks before attackers do and virtual patch them with critical stopgaps, such as web application firewall and API security controls.
F5 automated reconnaissance and penetration testing services help detect vulnerabilities and potential business logic risks for an exploding number of apps and APIs across today’s multicloud environments—allowing organizations to mitigate them before attackers can find them.
Ecosystem Integrations
Integrate your solution providers and tools to create an API‑driven security fabric.
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Leaving any API unprotected is unwise. Every API request, regardless of its source, needs to be authenticated, authorized, and validated to reduce the risks of compromise.