Cloudflare API Gateway is a comprehensive SaaS solution designed to enhance API security and management. It leverages machine learning and heuristics to continuously discover and protect public API endpoints, stop common attacks, and validate incoming requests against schemas and business logic.

Key Features

Automatic API Discovery Continuously identifies and documents public API endpoints

• Uses machine learning models and heuristics
• Discovers unmanaged or unsecured APIs

Advanced Security Measures Protects against various API attacks and vulnerabilities

• Stops zero-day exploits, authentication abuse, and DDoS attacks
• Prevents data leaks by scanning response payloads for sensitive information

Request Validation Ensures incoming requests conform to defined schemas and logic

• Validates against OpenAPI schemas
• Blocks malformed requests and HTTP anomalies

Benefits

Enhanced API Security Comprehensive protection for API endpoints

• Stops common API attacks and business logic exploits
• Reduces risk of data breaches and unauthorized access

Streamlined API Management Centralizes API-related operations on a single platform

• Consolidates inventory, policy management, and analytics
• Improves visibility and control over API landscape

Cost Reduction Optimizes API hosting and management expenses

• Reduces API hosting costs through efficient request validation
• Minimizes resource allocation for API security and monitoring