# API Shield

Identify and address your API vulnerabilities

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## Overview

- [Cloudflare API Shield](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/index.md)

## Get started with API Shield

- [Get started with API Shield](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/get-started/index.md)

## Plans

- [Plans](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/plans/index.md)

## Security

- [Security](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/security/index.md)
- [API Discovery](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/security/api-discovery/index.md)
- [Authentication Posture](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/security/authentication-posture/index.md)
- [Broken Object Level Authorization vulnerability detection](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/security/bola-vulnerability-detection/index.md)
- [GraphQL malicious query protection](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/security/graphql-protection/index.md)
- [Configure GraphQL malicious query protection via the API](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/security/graphql-protection/api/index.md)
- [JSON Web Tokens validation](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/security/jwt-validation/index.md)
- [Configure JWT validation via the API](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/security/jwt-validation/api/index.md)
- [Configure the Worker](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/security/jwt-validation/jwt-worker/index.md)
- [Enhance Transform Rules](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/security/jwt-validation/transform-rules/index.md)
- [Mutual TLS (mTLS)](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/security/mtls/index.md)
- [Bring your own CA](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/security/mtls/byo-ca/index.md)
- [Configure mTLS](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/security/mtls/configure/index.md)
- [Schema validation](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/security/schema-validation/index.md)
- [Configure Schema validation via the API](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/security/schema-validation/api/index.md)
- [Sequence Analytics](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/security/sequence-analytics/index.md)
- [Sequence mitigation](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/security/sequence-mitigation/index.md)
- [Configure sequence mitigation via the API](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/security/sequence-mitigation/api/index.md)
- [Sequence mitigation custom rules](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/security/sequence-mitigation/custom-rules/index.md)
- [Manage sequence rules](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/security/sequence-mitigation/manage-sequence-rules/index.md)
- [Volumetric Abuse Detection](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/security/volumetric-abuse-detection/index.md)
- [Configure Vulnerability Scanner via the API](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/security/vulnerability-scanner/index.md)

## API Gateway

- [API Gateway](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/api-gateway/index.md)

## Glossary

- [Glossary](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/glossary/index.md)

## Changelog

- [Changelog](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/changelog/index.md)

## management-and-monitoring

- [API Routing](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/management-and-monitoring/api-routing/index.md)
- [Build developer portals](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/management-and-monitoring/developer-portal/index.md)
- [Endpoint labeling service](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/management-and-monitoring/endpoint-labels/index.md)
- [Endpoint Management](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/management-and-monitoring/endpoint-management/index.md)
- [Schema learning](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/management-and-monitoring/endpoint-management/schema-learning/index.md)
- [Session identifiers](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/management-and-monitoring/session-identifiers/index.md)

## reference

- [Classic Schema validation (deprecated)](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/reference/classic-schema-validation/index.md)
- [Terraform](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/reference/terraform/index.md)