Announcing API Abuse Detection

Cloudflare has announced early access to API Discovery and API Abuse Detection, aimed at helping businesses protect their APIs from malicious activity. The new features include API Discovery, which maps out an organization's APIs, and two forms of abuse detection - one based on volume anomalies and another using sequential anomaly detection. These tools are designed to help organizations identify and mitigate abusive behavior on their APIs, such as price wars between rideshare services or manipulation of discounts for lattes. The API Abuse Detection technology is also expected to improve Bot Management for mobile apps by detecting abusive behavior without the need for bulky SDKs.