Cloudflare has announced a set of new services that are intended to bolster application security by limiting API abuse. The new API Discovery and API Abuse Detection tools are designed to provide critical context for application security issues that are often handled through overly simplistic measures.
In announcing these new products, Cloudflare highlighted a correlation between an ever-increasing number of APIs that exist throughout enterprise applications and an increased surface area that application owners are tasked with protecting from security vulnerabilities. Whether the issue is APIs being used for unintended purposes or distributed attacks, its clear that application owners need to take API abuse seriously.
