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Discovers all API endpoints

Validates all API endpoints

Protects all API endpoints

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Increased complexity in API security is creating vulnerabilities and loss of control

73%

of developers say that the tools their security team requires them to use interferes with their productivity and innovation.

87%

believe developers “compromise on security policies and controls to get new products and services to market faster.

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feel that developers are “very familiar” with the security risks of development and workflow tools.

How Cloudflare helps teams improve API security

Address shadow APIs

Cloudflare enables IT and Security leaders to gain visibility over their public APIs, schemas and performance metrics.

Positive API security model

Protect APIs by only accepting traffic that conforms to your OpenAPI schemas. Block malformed requests and HTTP anomalies.

Stop OWASP attacks

Block OWASP API Top 10 attacks including authentication, data loss, abuse, DDoS and brute-force attacks.

Block API abuse

Stop volumetric and sequential API abuse of XML, RESTful and GraphQL APIs through simple heuristics and advanced anomaly detection.

Streamline API management

Centrally register and manage endpoints discovered or added to the central API endpoint console.

API discovery

Discovery of API endpoints in use.

Mutual TLS

One button mTLS authentication support to block requests from illegitimate clients.

Sensitive data detection

Detect sensitive data leaving in API response phase.

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Key benefits of an integrated API security solution

Discover and catalog all of your APIs

An organization’s or developer’s API inventory is captured through API schemas — the metadata that defines the specifications of a valid API request and response.

These API schemas (often documented with OpenAPI specifications) include the API host, HTTP method, path, and other requirements established by developers, such as path and query variables.

Monitor which APIs allow ‘write’ access

When aggregated across all account APIs, Cloudflare found that 59.2% of organizations permitted ‘write’ access to at least half of their APIs.

When an API provides ‘write’ access to the wrong person, it can lead to attacks such as those described in this report.

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Assess and monitor API errors and trends

Understanding the root cause of API errors (and the trends behind those issues) requires consistent logging of API traffic, and analyzing trends over time.

Do you know how much of your API traffic is rate limited? How much of it is forbidden (due to bad authorization)?

API Security: Assess your risk exposure

APIs are crucial for modern businesses, but vulnerable endpoints pose significant risks for data exposure and compliance failures. This guide helps you assess your specific API risks with a step-by-step framework for identifying threats and developing a targeted remediation strategy.

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What our customers are saying

"We wanted a security layer that could protect our web properties and APIs without adding significant overhead."

- Marut Singh
CTO