API threat mitigation protects APIs against advanced threats that, if left alone, can result in fraud, data loss, and business disruption. If left unsecured, attackers can exploit API vulnerabilities, launch bot attack and business logic abuse impacting API security, governance, and compliance. Therefore, API threat mitigation is a critical element to any end-to-end API protection […] The post What is API Threat Mitigation? appeared first on Cequence Security.| Cequence Security
What Are SQL Injection Attacks? In the evolving landscape of application-layer threats, SQL injection remains one of the most persistent and damaging attacks. Despite being a well-documented issue, SQL injection continues to plague modern web applications, APIs, and backend systems. SQL injection allows an attacker to manipulate the SQL queries an application sends to its […] The post Defending Against SQL Injection Attacks appeared first on Cequence Security.| Cequence Security
What Are DDoS Attacks? Cybersecurity professionals face many threats, but Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks stand out for their simplicity, destructiveness, and persistence. A DDoS attack uses multiple compromised devices to overwhelm a target system with malicious traffic, rendering services unavailable to legitimate users. Each device sends requests, collectively flooding a server, network, or service to […] The post Preventing DDoS Attacks appeared first on Cequence Security.| Cequence Security
Learn about the types of IP reputation and how they can be leveraged to detect and mitigate supply chain attacks.| Cequence Security
Learn how comparison shopping is being exploited by retail bots and ecommerce automation. Cequence draws the line between legitimate and malicious.| Cequence Security
Cloudflare launches AI Crawl Control (formerly AI Audit) and introduces easily customizable 402 HTTP responses. Instead of blocking crawlers outright, content creators can now send "Payment Required" responses with custom messages, creating direct communication channels for AI partnerships.| The Cloudflare Blog
This is part three of our three-part API Threat Protection series. In part one, we talked about the modern approach to API discovery, and in part two, detecting API threats. We’ve learned that there’s a need for real-time, automated prevention measures to block API threats, and that’s the final step in the Unified API Protection […] The post API Threat Protection: Part 3 of How to Prevent API Attacks appeared first on Cequence Security.| Cequence Security
Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.| The Cloudflare Blog
Cequence has partnered with AWS to combine Cequence API Security and Bot Management products with AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) and AWS Shield to offer a best-of-breed cloud WAAP. Increasingly, our customers have asked if we could provide WAF and DDoS capabilities in addition to our API security and bot management offerings, so we worked […] The post Introducing Cequence Web Application and API Protection – WAAP appeared first on Cequence Security.| Cequence Security
API compliance means complying with internal organizational governance as well as industry and regional regulations. It’s a business-critical priority, not just a technical requirement, as non-compliance can mean regulatory fines and data breaches, which can incur regulatory penalties, erode customer trust, and have a significant financial impact. API compliance is defined as how an organization […] The post What is API Compliance? Aligning Regulatory Standards with API Security appeared ...| Cequence Security
Learn how AI tools like ChatGPT can be used to improve API security across the development, testing and detection phases of the API protection lifecycle.| Cequence Security
Pay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge AI crawlers for access to their content.| The Cloudflare Blog
What to Look for in a Bot Management Solution: Top 7 Selection Criteria How to Ensure Long-Term Protection Against Today’s Evolving Automated Attacks Today, bots are becoming more than just a security threat. Their contributions to very real lost revenue and customer dissatisfaction are now getting noticed in the boardroom. Many businesses are coming around […] The post Top 7 Selection Criteria for Automated Bot Prevention Solutions appeared first on Cequence Security.| Cequence Security
Agentic AI relies on APIs. Learn why this changes everything for API security and how Cequence can help.| Cequence Security
Bots now browse like humans. We're proposing bots use cryptographic signatures so that website owners can verify their identity. Explanations and demonstration code can be found within the post.| The Cloudflare Blog
Say goodbye to CAPTCHA and hello to a superior network-based approach—effective bot management without compromising the user experience.| Cequence Security
How Cloudflare uses generative AI to slow down, confuse, and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and other bots that don’t respect “no crawl” directives.| The Cloudflare Blog
Explore our comprehensive guide to API security—why it's vital, best practices and how to get started. Discover, comply and protect with Cequence.| Cequence Security
To help preserve a safe Internet for content creators, we’ve just launched a brand new “easy button” to block all AI bots. It’s available for all customers, including those on our free tier.| The Cloudflare Blog
Explore the definitive guide to bot management. Cequence explains what it is and best practices to protect apps and APIs.| Cequence Security
Brute force attacks like credential stuffing and password spraying can target APIs, resulting in account takeovers. Boost your API security with Cequence.| Cequence Security