Runtime API Security: From Visibility to Enforced Protection

F5 Distributed Cloud API Security: Red vs Blue

Runtime Reality and Design Time Gaps Many API security failures appear after deployment rather than during development. Specification drift, inconsistent authentication enforcement, and permissive ...
Published Dec 23, 2025
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Many API security issues emerge after deployment, not during development. Common problems include specification drift, inconsistent authentication enforcement, and overly permissive input handling. While secure coding and pre-deployment testing reduce risk, they cannot fully predict how APIs behave under scale, automation, or adversarial use. Runtime inspection is essential to detect discrepancies between expected and actual behavior and to identify controls that are not applied consistently.   

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