APIs (Application Planning Interface) are sets of programming code that allow applications to talk to one another. They’re a central part of any digital transformation strategy but they can also introduce cyber risk, making an API security strategy a vital element in your armoury.
The volume of APIs is rapidly increasing, with new vulnerabilities emerging that risk exposing sensitive data. Security teams can struggle to manage and identify exponential numbers of endpoints and connections across their infrastructure.
To help them cope, developers can end up deploying public APIs, bypassing internally mandated security processes and procedures. These shadow APIs often unintentionally expose sensitive datasets that may be leaked accidentally. Orgs with CI/CD pipelines deploy new code and APIs swiftly, perhaps overlooking security requirements. Permissions should always be set to prevent one user from accessing another user’s data.
FullProxy’s experts recommend F5’s Distributed Cloud API Security to give you discovery and deep insight from use of AI/ML.
The solution allows you to block API attacks in real time and eliminate vulnerabilities at source. The SaaS-based portal enables users to manage and go deep for threat analytics, forensics and troubleshooting of modern applications.
Automatically create and enforce a positive security model with your own OpenAPI specifications.
Detect and map all APIs across your applications, including forgotten and shadow APIs, for a complete view into an apps ecosystem with export capabilities.
Integrate security into the API lifecycle process via CI/CD tools or leading API management vendors.
Continuous machine learning monitors all traffic, allowing API security to maintain baselines, and predict and block suspicious activity overtime.
Easily identify usage patterns of APIs, and correlate good and bad actor activity to optimize APIs for a better client experience.
Automatically generate policies based on App-to-App and API-to-API patterns.
The F5 Distributed Cloud operates a SaaS service to provide application management, infrastructure and secure connectivity services across distributed customer sites in public cloud, private cloud or edge sites.
F5 Distributed Cloud operates its own infrastructure with global points of presence (PoPs) and private backbone that’s used to provide secure connectivity across distributed sites.
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