API Security and Management
Protect APIs as they drive business
Over the past few years, APIs have grown fast, which has been great for driving business but unfortunately, attackers have found opportunities in it too.
APIs bring a new slate of risks - some familiar from application security while some new- that our security postures must account for.
Cloudflare allows businesses greater success with API through the leading API security and management of API Gateway:
Address shadow APIs with full API visibility
Move to a positive API security model for robust API security
Stop attacks on the OWASP API Top Ten list
Block volumetric API abuse and data exfiltration
Streamline API management with a consolidated API registry, routing and analytics
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HOW IT WORKS
API Gateway: Security
Protect and secure your APIs:
- API discovery: automatically discover your API endpoints and their schemas through simple heuristics and machine learning models.
- OWASP Top 10 security: block OWASP API Top 10 attacks including authentication, data loss, abuse, DDoS and brute-force attacks.
- Mutual TLS: authenticate and validate API traffic with mTLS certificates for mobile and IoT APIs, and JSON web tokens (JWT) to block requests from illegitimate clients.
- Positive API security: protect APIs by only accepting traffic that conforms to your OpenAPI schemas. Block malformed requests and HTTP anomalies.
- API abuse detection: stop volumetric and sequential API abuse of XML, RESTful and GraphQL APIs through simple heuristics and advanced anomaly detection.
- Sensitive data detection: prevent data leaks by continuously scanning response payloads for sensitive data.
Benefits
58% of Cloudflare traffic is API-related
Cloudflare allows IT Security leaders to protect their public APIs - XML, RESTful and GraphQL - while enabling innovation. Your customer and partner trust is at stake, after all.
Shadow APIs create security blindspots
APIs are the fastest growing data type, growing more than twice as fast as web traffic. Cloudflare enables IT and Security leaders to gain visibility over their public APIs, schemas and performance metrics.
Authentication, data loss and abuse concerns
Once discovered, Cloudflare protects your APIs from abuse, vulnerability exploits, authentication loopholes and data leakage. Cloudflare now blocks more API traffic than web traffic.