“Through 2025, at least 70% of organizations will deploy specialized runtime protection only for the public-facing APIs they produce, leaving other APIs unmonitored and lacking API protection.”
Gartner, Inc., Innovation Insight for API Protection, 2022, Dionisio Zumerle, Jeremy D'Hoinne, Mark O'Neill, 10 October 2022
Secure your APIs against application attacks.
Protect websites as well as mobile and IoT application APIs from the growing threat of attacks and data breaches that cause much more havoc than traditional web application attacks. Whether it is XML, JSON, or GraphQL based APIs, your are fully protected against API attacks.
Use Machine Learning-Powered API discovery to discover shadow APIs.
Shadow and zombie APIs are a major cause of API-related data breaches. Our Machine Learning-powered API discovery identifies unprotected API endpoints using live traffic and automatically enables security, thereby greatly reducing the risk of data breaches.
Stop bot and DDoS attacks, and improve API performance.
Barracuda Advanced Bot Protection uses proven ML models to block automated bot attacks including account takeover attacks. Unlimited full-spectrum DDoS prevention stops volumetric and application DDoS attacks from overwhelming your APIs.
Continuous API discovery to secure your growing applications.
APIs are under constant development and most modern web applications are backed by APIs. However, these APIs are very frequently unknown (shadow APIs) and unprotected. Additionally, as API versions change, older endpoints are often left unprotected (zombie APIs.) Barracuda’s Machine Learning-powered API discovery looks at live traffic to your API endpoints to discover these shadow and zombie endpoints. Once discovered, the solution automatically turns on security settings, reducing the attack surface and blocking attacks. The best part? The discovery is always running, ensuring that your applications are continuously protected.
Secure API delivery for your critical applications.
A hardened TLS front end provides a secure access layer to your APIs. Content routing allows you to add newer API versions or perform rollouts and testing without needing to configure the entire API setup from scratch. As you add newer APIs, in addition to API discovery, you can also import either updated API contract documents or virtual patches from supported scanners to automatically configure security for your new API endpoints. Add authentication and authorization with OpenID Connect, SAML, JSoN Web Tokens, and other integrations to restrict API access to authorized users.
Shift left without slowing down.
Barracuda WAF and WAF-as-a-Service are fully configurable using REST APIs and can integrate with various tools throughout the development cycle. You can integrate the security configuration early into the development cycle by using the API specification import and virtual patching — and by the time your API is in production, you have a proven configuration. Use the configuration API to enforce uniform policies and rapidly onboard applications with ease. Content routing and allied features enable you further to deliver different versions of your API for A/B testing, Canary rollouts, etc.
Gain full visibility into your applications and traffic.
Each request to your API is logged with all the headers and other details, making it easy for you to troubleshoot any issues. The reporting and syslog modules have multiple integrations, giving you quick and thorough visibility into traffic patterns and changes in behavior.
API Protection is included in Barracuda Application Protection.
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