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Protect API Attack Surface
in Real Time

Immediately protect APIs from all API-layer threats

How do you comprehensively identify and protect your APIs against advanced, real-time attacks?

Traditional security measures understood human-to-machine interactions. Today, machine-to-machine interactions create a new blind spot for attackers to exploit. Without API security in place, operations, data, and uptime are at risk.

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Enable real-time protection by securing APIs within moments of exposure

Instead of focusing on known vs unknown APIs, focus on active vs non-active APIs. The challenge is how to swiftly mitigate threats directed toward at-risk APIs. Effective API protection provides real-time defense against business logic abuse, token manipulation, and API-specific threats—regardless of whether the API was identified or not.

The Growing Consequence of Lackluster API Security

~42%-86%

False positive rate

High false positive rate when securing adaptive, business-logic-based APIs

50 million

User records leaked

Millions of user records leaked because of an API vulnerability

$24B

Loss of revenue

Up to $24 billion loss of revenue from API vulnerabilities

Secure your APIs from OWASP API Top 10 threats, bots, and DDoS

Comprehensively provide real-time API protection by blocking malicious north-south traffic at the point of entry. Prevent, detect, and mitigate various API threats using dynamic intelligence, traffic flow analysis, behavioral analytics, business logic comprehension, and risk-based scoring.

Shared and collected threat intelligence filters out known attacks and informs about unknown attacks

  • Dynamic profiling helps stop unknown attacks by continuously learning “normal” API behavior and adapting over time
  • Filter out known application-layer threats from DDoS, bots, and OWASP Top 10 API and OWASP Top 10 application threats

Advanced AI and continuous learning improves accuracy of detecting API threats

  • Traffic flow analysis evaluates typical user behavior and identifies any deviations.
  • Because APIs are machine-to-machine transactions, a different type of business logic is needed to understand APIs. Thus, a deeper level of context-based analysis is required.
  • Real-time risk scoring analyzes all application traffic, providing insights into vector-agnostic attack intent, while working in tandem with business logic comprehension.

Single solution provides consolidation, reduces TCO, simplifies management, and improves overall security.

  • Automated protection is further bolstered by 24/7 security experts to stop API threats in real time.
  • Deploy API threat mitigation that works instantly out-of-the-box with a hands-off approach.
  • API protection sensors can be deployed quickly on-premises or SaaS-based to instantly adapt to changing needs.
  • Mitigate threats with risk-based scoring, AI-enhanced detection, and custom policies for more flexible mitigation and fewer false positives.

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“We look at our ThreatX dashboard and pinpoint whether attackers are just getting their feet wet, or they are really trying to exploit us. It’s a good visual because we can see clearly what to focus on. With other solutions, it was just an immediate block for anything that met a rule.”

–Marco Escobar, Senior Director of Operations, Segpay

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API and Application Protection Use Cases

Bot Management

Accurately detect and block malicious bots, while allowing legitimate traffic to flow seamlessly

Credential Stuffing Prevention

Stop credential-stuffing attacks at scale without affecting your legitimate users

DDoS Protection

Immediately shut down DDoS attacks targeting APIs and web applications

Sensitive Data Exposure Prevention

Identify which APIs are managing sensitive data and protect them from threats

Secure APIs from All Application-layer Threats in Real Time

ThreatX provides real-time API security with dynamic profiling (prevention), adaptive risk scoring (detection), and automatic threat mitigation (mitigation). Backed by 24/7 security expert support, it protects against the full spectrum of application-layer attacks, while minimizing false positives.

ThreatX by A10 Networks
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    Multi-variable, AI-enhanced, adaptive risk score
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    Flexible deployment of sensors on-premises or SaaS-based
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    Protect APIs against all application-layer threats
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    Various techniques of risk score methodology provide intent analysis
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    Choose customizable mitigation or a hands-off approach with 24/7 expert security support