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Secure APIs and Third-Party Integrations

Leave no API Behind: ensure continuous protection for the fabric underlying your digital business.

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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 ecosystem of third-party integrations.

F5 solutions secure APIs across a complex hybrid and multi-cloud 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. 

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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. 

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How F5 Helps

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.

F5 Distributed Cloud API Security

Protect APIs while reducing operational complexity in a cloud-delivered as a Service platform.

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.

NGINX App Protect

Secure your apps with API Security that fits natively into your microservices-based architectures.
BIG-IP Advanced WAF

Shield APIs from exploits, bots, and abuse with granular security controls in the data center and private/public clouds.

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).

F5 Distributed Cloud Managed Services

Engage experts to protect critical web apps and APIs with 24x7x365 support from the F5 SOC.

Ecosystem Integrations

Integrate your solution providers and tools to create an API‑driven security fabric.

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