2024 API Security & Management Report
Discover API security, performance, and management trends based on worldwide API traffic processed by Cloudflare - one of the world's largest networks
Global API traffic data from the leading connectivity cloud
APIs — the programmable interfaces comprising over half (57%) of Internet traffic — are highly complex to manage and protect against abuse. Read about the risk of shadow APIs and other API threats, attack mitigation techniques, and other trends throughout the API-centric world.
Holistically benchmark the security risks, performance, and management of API endpoints
The report findings are based on aggregated traffic patterns observed by Cloudflare’s global network between Oct. 1, 2022 and Aug. 31, 2023. Cloudflare serves over 50 million HTTP requests per second on average, and blocks an average of 170 billion cyber threats each day.
APIs are powerful tools for developers to create full-featured, complex applications to serve their customers, partners, and employees, but each API is a potential attack surface that needs to be secured.
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