The lab summarizes how F5 Distributed Cloud can discover, inventory, and secure critical APIs, helping you defend your known endpoints and bring the rogue Shadow APIs into the light. The connected world runs on APIs. Your banking app uses them, your ride share app uses them, even that weather app you check before walking out the door, it gets that data from an API. We interact with them multiple times throughout our daily life, to do everything from the most essential to the most mundane. They are simply everywhere and more and more are being published every day. As you would expect, this proliferation of APIs has marked them as a prime target for malicious actors. In the last couple years there have been quite a few well publicized attacks. From social media to fitness firms, no industry seems to be safe. With recent reports indicating that API vulnerabilities are costing businesses billions of dollars annually, it's no wonder they are at the top of mind of many cyber security professionals.

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), coined by Gartner in 2019, is a solution that blends networking and security into cloud scale architecture that optimizes end user performance and improves security for an organization. Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access is a SASE solution that combines edge networking, domain name system (DNS) enforcement, firewall as a service (FWaaS), and secure web gateway (SWG) capabilities to connect, protect and secure remote offices and users. The SASE Lab Series will look to explore the capabilities of the solution to provide you with a "rubber meets road" understanding of these technologies and how SASE can be applied in your company.