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Introducing API Shield

Introducing API Shield

10/1/2020 · Patrick R. Donahue, Daniele Molteni

What this post added

Introduced API Shield, a new offering for API security. API Shield combines client certificate-based identity (mutual TLS) with schema validation to enforce a positive security model for APIs. It simplifies client certificate issuance via a hosted PKI and allows for blocking requests that do not conform to defined API schemas. The post also details a demonstration using Cloudflare Workers and Workers KV to secure an IoT temperature sensor API.

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