Bot & Fraud Defense
What Is API Abuse Protection?
A concise concept explainer with related MaskFlare security context.
- Automated misuse
- API traffic
- Risk scoring
API abuse protection detects and controls automated misuse of an API — scraping data at volume, brute-forcing endpoints, or exploiting business logic — separately from the legitimate automated traffic an API is built to serve.
APIs are harder to protect than a login page because almost all of their traffic is automated by design, which means a defense that simply flags 'non-human' traffic doesn't work; it has to distinguish abusive automation from the automation the API exists for.
MaskFlare Radar applies the same behavioral and device-fingerprint-based risk scoring it uses for bot and fraud detection to API endpoints specifically.