API Security Products and Services
Keep all your APIs safe. Better understand your API threat landscape, detect vulnerabilities and implement critical protections across all APIs, the services they enable and the systems and data they access.
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 the power of data analytics and deep insights from AI and machine learning to discover, govern and protect your APIs. With F5, enterprises 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 get added and updates continue at a rapid pace.
Different Ways to Deploy Your API Security
DEPLOYMENT OPTIONS
SaaS
Enjoy cloud-based flexibility, delivering complete API discovery while retaining centralized visibility of your API threat surface and security policy settings.
Consider: Distributed Cloud API Security
Managed Service
Highly scalable, cloud delivered API discovery and protection, leveraging F5 expertise to design, configure and manage your API security posture.
Consider: Distributed Cloud API Security
On-Premises (Software / Virtual Appliance)
Extend API discovery and protection anywhere there is compute, network and storage to support any app architecture – with centralized SaaS visibility and policy management.
Consider: Distributed Cloud API Security
Lightweight Software and Containers
Universal Kubernetes-native tool for implementing API gateways, load balancers, and ingress controllers at the cluster edge.
Consider: NGINX One
Products
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.
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 Protection
F5 helps organizations protect against business logic abuse and threat across the OWASP API Top 10. Enabling organizations to detect vulnerabilities and threats targeting their APIs, pairing this insight with in-line enforcement to control API behavior, limit undesirable or malicious activity, and block sensitive data from being exposed via APIs.
API Delivery
With F5 organizations can easily scale, secure, and optimize API communications with enterprise-class, cloud-native API gateways. Allowing organizations to avoid outages and service disruption caused by the unmanaged proliferation of APIs across distributed environments, protect APIs against common threats, and provide better visibility and insight into API communications.
Resources
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Explore how API-based architectures introduce unforeseen risk from an ever-expanding number of third-party integrations and AI enabled services, including how you can ensure protection of the critical API fabric underlying your digital business.