User Guide

The User guide describes how to use F5 API Security Local Edition to discover, evaluate, and govern API activity in your environment. It is intended for security operations, application security, and API owner teams that operate the product on a daily basis.

For installation, BIG-IP integration, and administrative tasks, see the Admin Guide.

For release-specific information, see the Release Notes.

• Getting started
  • Sign in
  • First-time orientation
• Dashboard
  • Top-level tiles
  • Endpoints with sensitive data
  • API risk overview
  • Per-domain inventory
  • Dashboard actions
• Working with discovered endpoints
  • View components
  • Statistics period
  • Endpoint table filters
  • Endpoint actions
  • View endpoint details
• Shadow APIs and zombie APIs
  • Shadow APIs
  • Zombie APIs
• Risk scoring
  • Risk score inputs
  • Severity levels
  • Using the risk score for triage
• Schema management
  • Import an OpenAPI schema
  • Export a traffic-derived schema
  • Batch operations
• Enforcement
  • Enforcement workflow
  • Block an endpoint
  • Prerequisites for enforcement
• Daily workflow
• Reports and exports
• Common issues