F5 Distributed Cloud API Security
F5 Distributed Cloud API Security is a solution designed to protect your APIs across multi-cloud and edge environments. It provides security, traffic management, and analytics capabilities, ensuring the secure and reliable delivery of your APIs to customers, partners, and internal applications.
Features
- Automatically discover and catalog APIs across your distributed environments
- Implement granular access control policies based on various criteria
- Detect and mitigate threats, such as SQL injections
- prevents abuse, DDoS, ensures fair resource allocation
- Validate incoming and outgoing API requests and responses
- Monitor and log API traffic in real-time across distributed environments
- API analytics via customisable dashboards for insights and metrics
- Comprehensive API lifecycle management from dev to retirement
- Deploy and manage API security policies across multiple cloud providers
- Deploy API security closer to the end-users
Benefits
- Manage APIs across multiple cloud providers and edge locations
- Centralised platforms to secure and manage APIs
- Protect APIs from threats such as, DDoS attacks
- High availability and scalability
- Handle fluctuating traffic volumes and spikes without comprising performance
- Meet Industry standards such as GDPR and PCI-DSS
- Integrate seamlessly with your existing infrastructure
Pricing
£2,500 an instance
- Education pricing available
- Free trial available
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
7 1 7 5 5 8 5 7 8 7 5 9 9 0 9
Contact
FullProxy Ltd
Chris Templeton / Ewan Ferguson
Telephone: 0141 291 5500
Email: g-cloud@fullproxy.com
Service scope
- Service constraints
- Details provided within supplied documentation
- System requirements
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- Requirements dependent upon environment in which products are deployed
- See vendor website or documentation for details
- Minimum requirements are available at F5.com
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support response times
- Response time SLAs are negotiable with the client
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- None or don’t know
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support
- Yes, at an extra cost
- Web chat support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support accessibility standard
- None or don’t know
- How the web chat support is accessible
- N/A
- Web chat accessibility testing
- N/A
- Onsite support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support levels
- Access to F5 Support differs with contract purchased. Fortinet Support are available 24x7x365.
- Support available to third parties
- Yes
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
- Pre-sales consultancy Online Training User documentation
- Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
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- HTML
- End-of-contract data extraction
- No user data is retained as part of the service.
- End-of-contract process
- Renewal notice issued 90 days prior to contract end date.
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Using the web interface
- F5 Distributed Cloud API security does provide a web interface for administrative purposes. The web interface serves as the central management console for configuring, monitoring, and managing F5 Distributed Cloud API security services.
- Web interface accessibility standard
- WCAG 2.1 AAA
- Web interface accessibility testing
- N/a
- API
- Yes
- What users can and can't do using the API
- F5 Distributed Cloud API security provides an API (Application Programming Interface) for administrative purposes. The API allows administrators to programmatically manage and configure API security services offered by F5 Distributed Cloud.
- API automation tools
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- Ansible
- Chef
- Terraform
- Puppet
- API documentation
- Yes
- API documentation formats
- Open API (also known as Swagger)
- Command line interface
- Yes
- Command line interface compatibility
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- Linux or Unix
- Windows
- MacOS
- Other
- Using the command line interface
- F5 Distributed Cloud API security does provide a Command-Line Interface (CLI) for administrative purposes. The CLI allows administrators to interact with F5 Distributed Cloud API security services from the command line, enabling them to perform various administrative tasks and configurations efficiently.
Scaling
- Scaling available
- Yes
- Scaling type
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- Automatic
- Manual
- Independence of resources
- The underlying resources (CPU and Memory) are under the control of the client and can be extended if required. The product is sold based on per instance therefore a client may have to purchase multiple instances if usage goes beyond initially anticipated levels.
- Usage notifications
- Yes
- Usage reporting
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- API
- SMS
Analytics
- Infrastructure or application metrics
- No
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Reseller providing extra features and support
- Organisation whose services are being resold
- F5
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Conforms to BS7858:2019
- Government security clearance
- Up to Security Clearance (SC)
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
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- United Kingdom
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- Other locations
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Datacentre security standards
- Managed by a third party
- Penetration testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Penetration testing approach
- Another external penetration testing organisation
- Protecting data at rest
- Encryption of all physical media
- Data sanitisation process
- Yes
- Data sanitisation type
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- Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
- Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
- Equipment disposal approach
- A third-party destruction service
Backup and recovery
- Backup and recovery
- No
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- Data protection within supplier network
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
- Availability of the deployed service is the responsibility of the customer
- Approach to resilience
- This information can be made available upon request
- Outage reporting
- This information can be made available upon request
Identity and authentication
- User authentication
- Username or password
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
- Role based access control
- Access restriction testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Management access authentication
- Username or password
- Devices users manage the service through
- Any device but through a bastion host (a bastion host is a server that provides access to a private network from an external network such as the internet)
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- Users have access to real-time audit information
- How long user audit data is stored for
- User-defined
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- Users have access to real-time audit information
- How long supplier audit data is stored for
- User-defined
- How long system logs are stored for
- User-defined
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- QMS International Ltd
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 30/11/2022
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- N/A
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Cyber essentials plus
- Yes
- Other security certifications
- No
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- Yes
- Security governance standards
- ISO/IEC 27001
- Information security policies and processes
- Security governance policies available upon request
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Supplier-defined controls
- Configuration and change management approach
- F5 can provide documentation on their configuration and change management approach on request
- Vulnerability management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Vulnerability management approach
- F5 can provide documentation on their Vulnerability Management approach on request.
- Protective monitoring type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Protective monitoring approach
- F5 can provide documentation on their proactive monitoring approach on request.
- Incident management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Incident management approach
- F5 can provide documentation on their Incident Management approach on request.
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Supplier-defined process
Separation between users
- Virtualisation technology used to keep applications and users sharing the same infrastructure apart
- Yes
- Who implements virtualisation
- Supplier
- Virtualisation technologies used
- Other
- Other virtualisation technology used
- F5 Distributed Cloud leverages a combination of containerization, Kubernetes orchestration, and cloud-native architecture principles to deliver its networking and security services in a scalable, distributed, and efficient manner. While virtualization technologies play a role in its platform, F5 Distributed Cloud's focus is on enabling cloud-native networking and security capabilities for modern applications and distributed environments.
- How shared infrastructure is kept separate
- F5 Distributed Cloud supports multi-tenancy, allowing organizations to create separate, isolated environments for different users, departments, or customers within the platform. Each tenant can have its own set of resources, configurations, and access controls, ensuring data privacy, security, and segregation of duties.
Energy efficiency
- Energy-efficient datacentres
- Yes
- Description of energy efficient datacentres
- Documentation on the EU code of conduct for Energy Efficient datacentres can be provided upon request
Social Value
- Social Value
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Social Value
- Fighting climate change
- Covid-19 recovery
- Tackling economic inequality
- Equal opportunity
- Wellbeing
Fighting climate change
FullProxy's position on Social Values can be provided upon requestCovid-19 recovery
FullProxy's position on Social Values can be provided upon requestTackling economic inequality
FullProxy's position on Social Values can be provided upon requestEqual opportunity
FullProxy's position on Social Values can be provided upon requestWellbeing
FullProxy's position on Social Values can be provided upon request
Pricing
- Price
- £2,500 an instance
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
- Free trial available
- Yes
- Description of free trial
- A free or trial version/PoC can be requested from FullProxy. More details can be provided upon request.