API Shield

OVERVIEW

Full-Lifecycle API Security Built for Modern Applications

CDNetworks API Shield helps organizations secure modern APIs across a rapidly changing attack surface. As APIs expose critical data and services, gaps in visibility and control create security risks. API Shield continuously analyzes traffic across 3,000+ global PoPs to uncover exposure, understand access, and detect abnormal activity. API-aware controls stop threats before they reach origin systems, helping keep APIs secure, governed, and resilient.

BENEFITS

Greater API Visibility, Stronger API Protection

Reduce API Attack Surface

Continuously uncover exposed and unknown APIs, helping security teams identify gaps and reduce opportunities for exploitation.

Stop Threats at the Edge

Detect and block malicious API requests across 3,000+ global PoPs before they reach origin infrastructure.

Prevent Unauthorized API Access

Verify API consumers and enforce access policies to prevent unauthorized requests and protect critical backend services.

Unified Application and API Protection

Integrate API security with WAF, DDoS protection, and bot management for layered, end-to-end WAAP protection.

KEY FEATURES

Purpose-Built Controls for Stronger API Protection

API Inventory

Create and manage a centralized inventory of API resources, including privacy and operational status, across the API lifecycle.

API Discovery

Automatically discover unknown and unmanaged APIs using advanced log analysis technology.

API Compliance Detection

Validate request parameters and bodies against defined types, ranges, and structures to identify and block noncompliant requests.

API Authentication

Verify request legitimacy using dynamic authentication tokens, rejecting requests with invalid credentials or forged identities before reaching APIs.

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HOW IT WORKS

How CDNetworks API Shield Works

API Shield protects APIs throughout their lifecycle, from discovery and definition to access control and runtime detection. Incoming requests are authenticated and inspected across CDNetworks’ edge network, then evaluated against defined API policies for request methods, parameters, and body content before reaching the origin. Traffic logs are continuously analyzed to discover unknown or shadow APIs, helping keep API definitions and protection aligned as the environment evolves.