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Cloudflare API Shield
Keeping APIs secure and productive
At Cloudflare, we know APIs make the app world go around. That is why we make our massive global network your API security gateway. With API discovery and powerful, layered API defenses, Cloudflare ensures APIs drive business success like never before.
58% of the internet is API-related
Almost 60% of the world's internet traffic is API-related. And APIs are growing at ~40 percent. It is time for such a large, growing attack vector to enjoy dedicated, powerful protections.
APIs are growing fast
API traffic is growing 39% annually, while web traffic is declining, meaning API security challenges are here to stay.
Attackers are targeting APIs
According to Gartner, by 2022 API abuses will be the most-frequent attack vector, resulting in data breaches for enterprise web applications.
An API OWASP Remix
OWASP released a new top ten - focused exclusively on API security risks that security approaches must account for:
- Broken Object Level Authorization
- Broken User Authentication
- Excessive Data Exposure
- Lack of Resources & Rate Limiting
- Broken Function Level Authorization
- Mass Assignment
- Security Misconfiguration
- Injection
- Improper Assets Management
- Insufficient Logging & Monitoring
Cloudflare API Shield
Cloudflare API Shield keeps APIs secure with API discovery and layered protections:
- API Discovery: discover and monitor your API endpoint estate.
- Layer 7 security: prevent abusive attacks like application DDoS and brute-force attempts.
- Mutual TLS: provide strong authentication for mobile and IoT APIs.
- Positive API security: protect APIs by automatically enforcing OpenAPI schemas.
- API abuse protection: stop volumetric API abuse through advanced anomaly detection.
- Sensitive data detection: prevent data leaks by continuously scanning for sensitive data.
The best DDoS protection
All Cloudflare customers are shielded by 142 Tbps of DDoS protection.
Every server in every one of our 270 network locations runs the full stack of DDoS mitigation services to defend against the largest attacks.
World-class application security from Cloudflare
The Cloudflare web application firewall (WAF) is the cornerstone of our advanced application security portfolio that keeps applications and APIs secure and productive, thwarts DDoS attacks, keeps bots at bay, detects anomalies and malicious payloads, all while monitoring for browser supply chain attacks.
Bot Management
Deliver great customer experiences by protecting against bot attacks that harm web properties.
Web application firewall
Stop application attacks - both known techniques and zero day exploits.
Page Shield
Protect against 3rd party Magecart attacks carried out in visitors' browsers.
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Cloudflare security leadership
Named a "Customers' Choice" for WAF in the 2021 Gartner Peer Insights report.
Innovation Leader in the Frost & Sullivan Frost Radar™: Global Holistic Web Protection Market Report.
'Leader' in The Forrester Wave for DDoS Mitigation Solutions.
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