API Shield
Integrated API Security and Monitoring
Cloudflare API Shield helps you catalog and manage API endpoints, block attacks and vulnerability exploits, and prevent data leakage. By operating on Cloudflare's global network, it automatically discovers and secures your API endpoints, helping to prevent attacks and data loss. This comprehensive approach ensures your APIs are protected and performing optimally.
Global API Protection
Powered by Cloudflare's global network, API Shield automatically discovers, validates, and protects your API endpoints, providing comprehensive security and monitoring.
Advanced Threat Detection
API Shield blocks common API attacks and continuously scans response payloads to identify sensitive information, preventing data exfiltration and leakage.
Automated Endpoint Discovery
Cloudflare API Shield uses machine learning and heuristics to analyze traffic and identify all API endpoints in use, including undocumented ones, ensuring a complete inventory of your API endpoints.
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Comprehensive security and monitoring for your APIs, powered by Cloudflare's global network.
Explore API Shield use casesAPI Endpoint Discovery and Cataloging
Cloudflare API Shield analyzes traffic to identify and catalog all API endpoints, including undocumented ones, helping maintain a complete and accurate inventory.Preventing Data Exfiltration
API Shield scans response payloads for sensitive information, preventing data exfiltration and leakage through your APIs.Blocking API Attacks
API Shield uses a positive security model to block common API attacks, including OWASP Top 10 API Security risks, helping ensure API traffic conforms to your schemas.Scalable API Security
Cloudflare API Shield provides integrated security and monitoring at scale, automatically discovering and securing API endpoints on Cloudflare's global network.Discord
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Knowing that we dont have to worry about DDoS attacks against our API and gateway servers gives us the peace of mind to focus on improving our product. "
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Powerful primitives, seamlessly integrated
Built on systems powering 20% of the Internet, API Shield runs on the same infrastructure Cloudflare uses to build Cloudflare. Enterprise-grade reliability, security, and performance are standard.
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