API Protection

API protection architecture diagrams covering API gateway security, shadow API discovery, rate limiting, and schema validation with F5 Distributed Cloud.

API Gateway Security

API gateway with authentication, authorization, rate limiting, and schema validation before reaching backend services.

flowchart LR
  client@{ icon: 'lucide:globe', label: 'API Client' }
  gw@{ icon: 'carbon:gateway-api', label: 'API Gateway' }
  auth@{ icon: 'lucide:key', label: 'Auth Service' }
  rate@{ icon: 'carbon:load-balancer-vpc', label: 'Rate Limiter' }
  api@{ icon: 'carbon:api', label: 'API Service' }
  db@{ icon: 'carbon:data-base', label: 'Database' }

  client --> gw
  gw --> auth
  auth --> gw
  gw --> rate
  rate --> api
  api --> db

F5 XC API Discovery and Protection

F5 Distributed Cloud providing API discovery, shadow API detection, and comprehensive API security with traffic insight.

flowchart TD
  traffic@{ icon: 'lucide:globe', label: 'API Traffic' }
  waap@{ icon: 'f5xc:web-app-and-api-protection', label: 'XC WAAP' }
  discover@{ icon: 'f5xc:application-traffic-insight', label: 'API Discovery' }
  scan@{ icon: 'f5xc:web-app-scanning', label: 'API Scanning' }
  intel@{ icon: 'f5xc:data-intelligence', label: 'Data Intelligence' }
  api@{ icon: 'carbon:api', label: 'API Endpoints' }

  traffic --> waap
  waap --> discover
  waap --> scan
  discover --> intel
  scan --> intel
  waap --> api

API Security Pipeline

Multi-stage API request validation pipeline with TLS, JWT verification, rate limiting, and payload inspection.

architecture-beta
  group security(lucide:shield)[API Security Layer]
  group backend(carbon:cloud-services)[Backend Services]

  service tls(lucide:lock)[TLS Termination] in security
  service jwt(lucide:key)[JWT Validation] in security
  service rate(carbon:load-balancer-vpc)[Rate Limiter] in security
  service schema(carbon:gateway-security)[Schema Validation] in security
  service api1(carbon:api)[Users API] in backend
  service api2(carbon:api)[Orders API] in backend

  tls:R --> L:jwt
  jwt:R --> L:rate
  rate:R --> L:schema
  schema:R --> L:api1
  schema:B --> T:api2