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. APIs are also subject to the same attacks that target web apps, namely exploits and abuse that lead to data breaches and fraud, and introduce unintended risk from third-party integrations and ecosystems.
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.
How API Security Protects Your Business
Improve risk management while supporting digital innovation
F5 solutions protect APIs across the entire enterprise portfolio with effective and consistent security for all clouds, architectures, and development frameworks.
With these solutions in place, you can continuously discover and protect APIs, infusing a positive API security model that improves risk management while supporting digital innovation.
F5 security runs in the form factor your business needs to reach its maximum potential including self-managed solutions, a cloud-delivered as a Service platform, and managed services that extend your security and fraud teams with 24x7x365 SOC oversight.
How F5 Helps
Saas-Based API Security
Cloud-delivered protection for all apps and APIs
Proactively shield your organization from vulnerabilities, reduce complexity, and protect the business with effective and easy-to-operate security that provides out-of-the-box protection and consistent policy enforcement across clouds and architectures.
- F5 Distributed Cloud Services: Protect APIs while reducing operational complexity in a could-delivered as a Service platform.
Self-Managed API Security
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.
- Advanced WAF: Shield APIs from exploits, bots, and abuse with granular security controls in the data center and private/public clouds.
Managed Service WAF
Cloud-based managed service that protects web apps and data from evolving threats
F5’s security managed service protects web applications that are critical to your business and extends your security team’s reach with 24×7 support from the F5 Security Operations Center (SOC).
Ecosystem Integrations
Red Hat: Integration with OpenShift for container-native security.
NetApp: Enhances secure access to cloud and on-prem data via BlueXP.
Console Connect: Extends secure app connectivity globally with built-in DDoS protection.