Security

Cloudflare offers the following features to help secure your APIs:

• API Discovery
• Volumetric Abuse Detection
• Sequence Analytics
• Sequence Mitigation
• GraphQL malicious query protection
• JSON Web Tokens validation
• Mutual TLS (mTLS)
• Schema validation
• Authentication Posture

Example Cloudflare solutions

Cloudflare's API Shield — together with other compatible Cloudflare products — helps protect your API from the issues detailed in the OWASP® API Security Top 10 ↗.

The following table provides examples of how you might match Cloudflare products to OWASP vulnerabilities:

OWASP issue	Example Cloudflare solution
Broken Object Level Authorization	Sequence Mitigation, Schema validation, JWT validation, Rate Limiting
Broken Authentication	mTLS, JWT validation, Exposed Credential Checks, Bot Management, Authentication Posture
Broken Object Property Level Authorization	Schema validation, JWT validation
Unrestricted Resource Consumption	Rate Limiting, Sequence Mitigation, Bot Management, GraphQL Query Protection
Broken Function Level Authorization	Schema validation, JWT validation
Unrestricted Access to Sensitive Business Flows	Sequence Mitigation, Bot Management, GraphQL Query Protection
Server Side Request Forgery	Schema validation, WAF managed rules, WAF custom rules
Security Misconfiguration	Sequence Mitigation, Schema validation, WAF managed rules, GraphQL Query Protection
Improper Inventory Management	Discovery, Schema Learning
Unsafe Consumption of APIs	JWT validation, WAF managed rules