Announcing the Cloudflare API Gateway
Mar 16, 2022Ben Solomon
Summary
This post introduces the Cloudflare API Gateway, a new major capability that extends Cloudflare's security and management offerings to API-driven applications. It details features such as API Discovery to identify shadow APIs, Schema Validation to enforce API structure, Abuse Detection for rate limiting and scraping prevention, mTLS for device authentication, and enhanced Authentication (API keys, JWT, OAuth 2.0) and Routing capabilities leveraging Cloudflare Workers and Transform Rules. This significantly expands the scope of website security and threat management to include the critical area of API security.
More from the Website Security & Threat Management trail
- We tested our own WAF with frontier AI models. Here’s what we found
- When scanners miss the attack: how Cloudflare Client-Side Security protects storefronts
- Introducing automatic remediation policies with Cloudflare CASB
- Introducing context-aware vulnerability discovery and remediation with Cloudflare Managed Defense and OpenAI Daybreak Models
- Introducing Adaptive Intelligence: undermining the economics of every bot attack