Detecting API abuse automatically using sequence analysis
Mar 15, 2023John Cosgrove, Peter Foster
Summary
This post introduces Cloudflare Sequence Analytics for APIs, a new feature within API Gateway. It details the concept of API request sequences, explains their importance for security by enabling positive security models, and outlines the technical challenges of identifying and analyzing these sequences at scale. The post describes the 'Correlation Score' metric used to identify important sequences and shows a dashboard screenshot of the new functionality. It also previews upcoming features like sequence precedence rules.
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