Now organizations can secure, manage, and
monitor all of their APIs in one easy-to-use dashboard
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the security, performance, and
reliability company helping to build a better Internet, today
announced the Cloudflare API Gateway, providing businesses a
simple, fast, and effective way to protect and control all of their
APIs (application programming interfaces). Organizations are using
APIs more than ever before, yet many of them struggle to secure
this traffic as legacy solutions are often expensive, overly
complex, and slow. Cloudflare API Gateway will simplify the process
of identifying, securing, and managing APIs of any protocol on one
of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks.
The world runs on APIs—our phones, smartwatches, banking
systems, and shopping sites all rely on APIs to communicate—and API
traffic generates more than 50% of all the HTTP requests on
Cloudflare’s global network. With this explosive growth it has
become more critical than ever for businesses of all sizes to have
robust protection and a clear view of their API suite. According to
Gartner®: “API security challenges have emerged as a top concern
for most software engineering leaders, as unmanaged and unsecured
APIs create vulnerabilities that could accelerate multimillion
dollar security incidents.” However, traditional legacy solutions
are often difficult to implement, expensive to run, and
unreasonably slow. Now, Cloudflare API Gateway provides a single
hub allowing businesses to quickly discover APIs they weren’t aware
of and easily secure them in just a few clicks.
“APIs were never built with security in mind. Yet, today APIs
are involved in nearly every app a consumer or employee touches,
often carrying our sensitive personal data,” said Matthew Prince,
CEO and co-founder of Cloudflare. “Every day Cloudflare’s network
blocks about 86 billion cyber threats for our customers. We’re
confident that no other API tool sees the breadth or volume of
threats that we do. We’ve built next generation AI and Machine
Learning engines that take API management to a new level,
automatically detecting new APIs and preventing threats. As with
other Cloudflare products, API Gateway will do all of this at a
fraction of the cost and without the latency introduced by legacy
solutions.”
With Cloudflare API Gateway, businesses will be able to:
- Identify and stop API abuse: Leveraging Cloudflare’s
unique Machine Learning engine that processes 32+ million requests
per second, customers can now automatically analyze their API
traffic to detect and prevent API abuses.
- Automatically detect unmanaged APIs: As API use
grows, sometimes developers may publish APIs that security teams
aren't aware of. Cloudflare API Gateway passively scans the entire
network and automatically lists API endpoints for complete
visibility.
- Create and manage APIs directly with Cloudflare Workers:
Customers will be able to use integrations with Cloudflare Workers
to create lightweight, dynamic APIs that run at our edge.
- Offload authentication and authorization: The gateway
will support industry protocols like OAuth 2.0, JSON Web Tokens
(JWT) as well as leverage authentication methods available in
Cloudflare Access such as Mutual TLS and service tokens.
- Seamlessly route, log, and measure API requests:
Cloudflare's existing products, like Transform Rules, will
introduce native gateway functionality without adding latency,
helping keep Cloudflare’s API Gateway as fast as possible.
Schema Validation, API Discovery, mTLS, and API Abuse detection
are available today, with remaining features coming later this
year. To learn more about Cloudflare API Gateway, please check out
the resources below:
- Blog Post: Announcing the Cloudflare API Gateway
- Cloudflare API Gateway: Sign up to learn more
- Overview: Security Week
Source: Gartner, “Predicts 2022: APIs Demand Improved Security
and Management”, Shameen Pillai, Jeremy D'Hoinne, John Santoro,
Mark O'Neill, Sham Gill, 6 December 2021. GARTNER is a registered
trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates
in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission.
All rights reserved.
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Cloudflare’s suite of products protect and accelerate any Internet
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changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare
have all web traffic routed through its intelligent global network,
which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see
significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and
other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top
Company Cultures 2018 list and ranked among the World’s Most
Innovative Companies by Fast Company in 2019. Headquartered in San
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