Introducing Cloudflare’s 2024 API security and management report

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This post introduces Cloudflare's 2024 API security and management report, detailing findings from real traffic data. It highlights the prevalence of 'Shadow APIs' (undiscovered APIs) and introduces Cloudflare's API Discovery tool, which uses machine learning to identify these hidden endpoints. It also discusses best practices for API rate limiting, recommending session-based limits over IP-based limits, and introduces Cloudflare's Advanced Rate Limiting and API Gateway for precise control. The post also emphasizes the importance of applying WAF protection to API traffic to mitigate web application attacks.