API and Microservice Protection from Signal Sciences




Businesses that use APIs and microservices to exchange data with authorized customers and partners rely on Signal Sciences to stop unauthorized API access and abuse without false positives, breaking applications, or frustrating users or business partners.
Signal Sciences Protects the APIs that Power Your Web and Mobile Apps

“As an incredibly high volume payments processor with an API centric architecture we didn’t think we’d be able to find a WAF solution that would be both flexible enough technically to get installed seamlessly AND be able to autoscale with our bursts of traffic. Signal Sciences was able to offer both and more. We’ve been using them for a few years now and both security and engineering teams have been very happy with their product and service!”
– Head of Analytics, Enterprise Finance Company
API Attack Vectors and Security Challenges
Signal Sciences is the market leader in protecting APIs and is used by the world’s largest API driven companies and services. Customers use us to protect the full spectrum of their API security, including common threat vectors such as:
API
Brute Forcing
Brute forcing sensitive IDs or tokens in APIs that are not searchable or public leads to discovery and exposure of sensitive customer data, unpublished media, payment information, PII, and other confidential data.
Unauthorized
API Access
Targeting sensitive APIs such as gift card and credit card validation and attempting to validate stolen credit cards, perform ecommerce gift card fraud, or obtain patient healthcare records.
Rate Limiting and
API Abuse
Attempting to abuse sign up systems, gift promotions, email and message sending functionality, and other sensitive actions.
Account Takeover / Credential Stuffing
Attackers use known lists of compromised credentials from common password lists and breach data dumps to try to gain access to customer accounts through authentication endpoints.
Malicious Traffic Sources / Disallowed geographies
Attempting to abuse APIs from known malicious sources (Tor, data centers, etc) or from disallowed countries / geographies.
Built To Work With Your Architecture

Signal Sciences is a hybrid software as a service (SaaS) solution with two main components: Server-side software that deploys in your infrastructure within minutes and our powerful cloud-hosted analytics backend.
API Gateway Integrations
Signal Sciences API Security works seamlessly with industry-leading API Gateway solutions. Depending on the API gateway your organization uses, you can easily install Signal Sciences as an agent or module. Learn more about our integrations.