The growing threat to APIs -and how Cloudflare API Gateway can help [Video]

Checkout the below video on Cloudflare API Gateway where I also show a demo and walk through features/capabilities. Watch directly below or on the Cloudflare YouTube channel here.

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Cloudflare API Gateway Demo and Walkthrough [Video]

Checkout my latest video on Cloudflare API Gateway below or directly on the Cloudflare YouTube channel here. A growing proportion of Internet traffic is API traffic. Securing, managing, and monitoring API Endpoints has become critical; Cloudflare API Gateway can help.

Cloudflare API Gateway provides many capabilities for API visibility, security, abuse protection, and management. In this video, we discuss Cloudflare API Gateway benefits, traffic flow, end user workflow, and walkthrough a demo highlighting API Gateway capabilities/features. Also, see my prior post on Cloudflare API Gateway: Cloudflare API Shield Adds API Endpoint Management and Metrics

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Webinar: The growing threat to APIs—and how Cloudflare API Gateway can help

Cloudflare API Gateway Webinar
Register now for our upcoming webinar (Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022) on Cloudflare API Gateway. Continue reading

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The newest approach: Stopping bots without CAPTCHAs [Video]

Checkout the below video on Cloudflare Bot Management and ridding the Internet from CAPTCHAs where I also show a demo and walk through features/capabilities. Watch directly below or on the Cloudflare YouTube channel here.

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Cloudflare API Shield Adds API Endpoint Management and Metrics

Cloudflare API Shield
A growing proportion of web traffic is API traffic with many sources now showing API traffic being more than 50% of total web traffic. Cloudflare has prior reported that 54% of the traffic on the global Cloudflare network is API traffic. Cloudflare API Shield provides many capabilities for API visibility, security, abuse protection, and management. Cloudflare API Shield already had many capabilities including API discovery, API analytics, positive security model with mTLS and schema validation, intelligent custom rate limiting, volumetric abuse protection, and sensitive data protection. Now Cloudflare has recently added the capability to add and manage API endpoints and gain visibility to API performance and errors while also providing anomaly detection alerts. Continue reading

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Stop Credential Stuffing Attacks with Cloudflare Bot Management

Cloudflare Bot Management - Stopping Credential Stuffing Attack

Cloudflare Bot Management – Stopping Credential Stuffing Attack


Cloudflare Bot Management can better detect and help mitigate malicious bots using multiple detection mechanisms like heuristics, behavioral analysis/anomaly detection, machine learning, and finger printing against a massive global volume of data. My colleague and I recently discussed and showed examples of some of these capabilities in a recent Cloudflare webinar. Continue reading

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Webinar Recording: The newest approach: Stopping bots without CAPTCHAs [Video]

Cloudflare Webinar: Stopping bots without CAPTCHAs

Had a great turnout for bot management webinar. Watch the recording to see how Cloudflare is moving the Internet away from CAPTCHAs and see it in action.

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Webinar: Stopping bots without CAPTCHAs

Cloudflare Bot Management Webinar
Register now for our upcoming webinar (Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022) on stopping bots without CAPTCHAs. Continue reading

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Bot Management is More Than Just Captchas!

I’ve been really digging into the Cloudflare Bot Management capabilities and applying it on several sites. Love what Cloudflare is doing here – moving the Internet away from captchas!

A true Bot Management solution is more than just captchas! Many bots used for malicious purposes are more sophisticated than the typical attacks folks usually mitigate via general WAF policies and methods such as rate limiting, black holing traffic, and blacklisting IPs. Continue reading

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Cloudflare WAF – Managed Rules are a Life Saver!

Doing some testing with Cloudflare WAF yesterday; very impressed. Cloudflare Managed Rules are continuously being updated, and protects customers from emerging threats and 0-day exploits. Can be a real life saver! Cloudflare Managed Rules

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