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AppTrana API Bot Protection​

Stop credential stuffing, scraping, and fraud on your APIs with always-on behavioral detection​
  • Behavioral bot protection built in: AppTrana includes advanced AI/ML based detection without forcing you to upgrade​
  • No RPS billing traps: Predictable and transparent pricing with all capabilities included​
  • Workflow-based protection: Tailored bot policies to your business logic.​
  • 24×7 managed SOC oversight: Managed bot monitoring with real-time tuning, zero false positives, and audit-ready reports​

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Credential Stuffing & Account Takeover

Credential Stuffing & Account Takeover​

APIs are prime targets for credential stuffing attacks, especially in SaaS and banking logins. Competitors rely on rate limits or signatures, which miss distributed and low-and-slow attacks. AppTrana stops them with behavioral profiling and workflow-aware rules tuned to your login APIs, ensuring only valid customers and users gain access.​

Experience Reliable API Protection with Indusface​

Indusface protects 8 API hosts and the behavioral DDOS is very helpful in dynamic rate-limiting. We haven't seen any downtime.​

Reviewer Function : Manager, IT & Risk Management
Company Size: 50M -250M USD
Industry: Travel and Hospitality​
Account Takeover & Credential Stuffing
Scraping & Data Exfiltration

Scraping & Data Exfiltration​

Bots exploit structured API responses to harvest PII, financial records, customer data, or intellectual property. AppTrana detects anomalies in intent and usage, applies device fingerprinting, and blocks malicious scrapers while keeping partner integrations and trusted machine clients unaffected.​

Integrated Security Controls ​

AppTrana has provided the right set of controls to secure our organization's internet facing applications. ​

Reviewer Function: CISO Company Size: 250M - 500M USD
Industry: Telecommunication​
Better Bot Protection Through Custom Controls

Fake Signups & Inventory Hoarding​

Automated signups skew metrics, while bots hoard stock through cart and transaction APIs. AppTrana applies workflow-specific rules and expert tuning to safeguard your business-critical flows against such abuse.​

Custom SOC Rules Stand Out in Apptrana WAF Experience​

We are thoroughly impressed with the protection provided against DDoS attacks, bot attacks, and more. The custom SOC rules are true game- changers, especially when tailored to protect against unpatched or unfixed vulnerabilities in the company’s public-facing applications.​

Reviewer Function: Manager IT Security and Risk Management Company Size: 500M - 1B USD
Industry: Construction
Better Bot Protection Through Custom Controls
Abuse of API Keys & Integrations

Abuse of API Keys & Integrations​

SaaS platforms and financial APIs often expose integrations to partners, customers, or developers. Bots can abuse exposed API keys or open endpoints to launch automated fraud, spam, or DDoS-like noise. AppTrana applies workflow- specific rules and managed tuning to protect against such misuse without breaking legitimate integrations.​

Adaptive Security and API Protection​

We are extremely satisfied with the services. We are specifically impressed by Exceptional Protection, which has Adaptive Security Protection that creates rules on the fly by analyzing traffic and web requests. It has fewer false positives, allowing us to channelize our efforts effectively.​

Reviewer Function: Global Chief Information Security Office Company Size: 1B - 3B USD
Industry:  Manufacturing
Fraudulent Transactions & Business Logic Abuse

AI Tool and Agent Abuse Prevention​​

Protect your applications from automated requests generated by AI and LLM tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. The system identifies and blocks AI driven crawlers, scripted prompts, and autonomous agents such as Devin and AutoGPT that try to access or misuse your APIs.​

Application context specific Bot mitigation was provided by AppTrana​​

Very easy onboarding and instant protection of our key appointment booking applications​​

Reviewer Function: Deputy GM​ Company Size: 50M – 250M USD​
Industry:  IT Services​
Abuse of API Keys & Integrations
Fraudulent Transactions & Business Logic Abuse

Fraudulent Transactions & Business Logic Abuse​

Payment APIs, subscription management APIs, and trading or booking systems are top fraud targets. With behavioral validation and 24×7 SOC oversight, AppTrana identifies fraudulent automation in real time and blocks it while allowing genuine users and transactions to flow without disruption.​

Only legit traffic to your Website with API Protection​

The constant monitoring of web applications against cyber misuse allows us to work stress-free, even in a complex environment. The entire software is highly effective in securing the network and revealing application-layer susceptibilities in real time.​

Reviewer Function: Senior Financial Analyst​ Company Size: 1B - 3B USD
Industry: Retail
Fraudulent Transactions & Business Logic Abuse

24×7 Managed SOC​​

Our managed SOC continuously monitors API traffic, fine-tunes workflow rules in real time during bot attacks, and performs deep forensic analysis. Each incident is captured with clear timelines of attack patterns, malicious requests, mitigations, and outcomes, delivering compliance-ready reports for internal audits, regulators, and board reviews.​​

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Complete WAAP platform with managed services that act as extended SOC team​

Unified platform for web and API protection against DDoS, bots, and zero-day attacks. We have almost 200 QA and production applications on AppTrana WAF and are happy with the service from Indusface.​

Reviewer Function : Manager, IT Security & Risk Management​ Company Size: 1B -3B USD
Industry: Banking
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Other Platforms vs AppTrana API

Typical API Tools Separate tools, add-ons, and manual effort
AppTrana API All-in-one, fully managed web & API security
Pricing model for API bot protection

Typical API Security Platforms

  • Charge per request or per million bot-mitigated calls, so scrapers and credential stuffing campaigns drive up bills.
  • Advanced, behavioural bot mitigation is usually a separate add-on SKU with its own pricing.
  • You effectively pay for all the bad traffic that hits the edge, even when it is blocked.

AppTrana API Security

  • You pay only for clean traffic that reaches your origin servers, not for malicious bot volume.
  • Advanced, AI-powered bot mitigation is included, not sold as a separate add-on.
  • Unmetered protection keeps costs predictable even when bot traffic spikes.
Depth of bot detection on APIs

Typical API Security Platforms

  • Rely on signature-based and simple rate-limit rules focused on web pages, not API patterns.
  • Limited ability to distinguish good bots, partner integrations and abusive automation on APIs.
  • Behavioural bot models, if available, are reserved for higher tiers or specialist products.

AppTrana API Security

  • Uses behavioural and ML-driven models tuned for API traffic: methods, paths, tokens, clients and sequences.
  • Differentiates real users, approved integrations and malicious automation to reduce false blocks.
  • Works alongside API discovery and positive security policies to protect both documented and shadow APIs.
Operations and management of bot controls

Typical API Security Platforms

  • Bot policies are largely self-managed. Your team handles whitelists, CAPTCHA flows and false positives.
  • Tuning for new attack tools and frameworks often needs paid professional services.
  • Limited alignment between bot policies, business rules and compliance needs.

AppTrana API Security

  • Bot protection is fully managed by a 24x7 SOC that monitors API bot traffic and adjusts rules.
  • Unlimited tuning, virtual patches and exception handling are covered by SLA-backed managed services.
  • Policies are aligned with your business flows so security does not break legitimate API consumers.
Uptime and business continuity with bot defenses

Typical API Security Platforms

  • Aggressive bot controls can break APIs or cause outages with no clear uptime commitment.
  • If the bot layer/platform fails, there is often no automatic bypass, so APIs go dark.
  • SLAs rarely include a penalty clause tied to availability of the protection layer.

AppTrana API Security

  • Bot defenses are part of a platform with a 100 percent uptime guarantee for the protection layer, backed by a penalty clause.
  • Auto-bypass ensures your APIs remain reachable even if the platform faces an issue.
  • Zero downtime onboarding and continuous false positive monitoring reduce the risk that bot controls impact real users or partners.

Indusface is the only cloud WAAP (WAF) vendor with 100% customer recommendation for 4 consecutive years

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Customer Testimonials


5.0
Feb 27, 2024
Seamless solution for application security.
  • Reviewer Role : Engineering - Other
  • Company Size : 50M - 250M USD
  • Industry : Insurance
seamlessly onboarded 10 applications which included API integration layer, did not see any major issues after onboarding applications to Apptrana
5.0
Feb 22, 2024
Integrated platform for Website and API security.
  • Reviewer Role : BPM Architect
  • Company Size : 30B + USD
  • Industry : IT Services
The integrated DAST scanner is of great value to us, as it helps us look at the open vulnerabilities versus protection status..
5.0
Feb 19, 2024
Happy Customer And Using Apptrana For More Than 5 Years
  • Reviewer Role : AVP, IT Security and Risk Management
  • Company Size : 500M - 1B USD
  • Industry : Finance
Good product and very prompt support from the support team. Would highly recommend Apptrana managed service.
5.0
Jan 20, 2021
Total Application Security offering with WAF CDN website scan, Bot/DDOS mitigation & 24x7
  • Reviewer Role : IT Security and Risk Management
  • Company Size : 1B - 3B USD
  • Industry : IT Services
A fully integrated comprehensive offering providing a 360 degree view of the application security risks ...
5.0
Nov 16, 2022
Very Good Cloud WAF offering and support
  • Reviewer Role : IT Services
  • Company Size : 50M - 250M USD
  • Industry : Banking
As a financial institution a comprehensive security offering backed with support was very important for us and Indusface with their AppTrana offering provided this to us ...
5.0
Nov 21, 2022
Apptrana great option for WAF, Integration Web application scanner and DDOS
  • Reviewer Role : IT Security and Risk Management
  • Company Size : 50M - 250M USD
  • Industry : IT Services
Complete managed service and not just WAF and DDOS, Ease of management, No downtime.
5.0
Nov 21, 2022
AppTrana is a must have for Application Protection
  • Reviewer Role : IT Security and Risk Management
  • Company Size : 1B - 3B USD
  • Industry : Consumer Goods
We have full assurance of protection with Indusface AppTrana and Managed Service from Zero day threats, DDOS ad Bot Attacks.
5.0
Dec 21, 2021
Managed WAF and protection service including DDOS protection
  • Reviewer Role : IT Security and Risk Management
  • Company Size : 3B - 10B USD
  • Industry : Banking
We have been using Indusface WAF since its inception and have seen them evolve from a early stage MVP to a mature powerful product in the WAF and anti DDOS / Bot mitigation.
5.0
Oct 17, 2023
Web Application Firewall that suites your business needs
  • Reviewer Role : IT Services
  • Company Size : 250M - 500M USD
  • Industry : Insurance
Technical support from the product vendor is exceptional. During critical incidents all level of support was made available within no time.
5.0
Feb 3, 2021
Single Product To Take Care Of Entire Application Security
  • Reviewer Role : IT Services
  • Company Size : 500M - 1B USD
  • Industry : Insurance
End to end managed WAF including application risk assessment and virtual patching + DDOS + BOT mitigation + CDN from the single OEM is the best feature ...



The State of Application Security – H1 2025

The State of Application Security H1 Report 2025
  • 4.8 billion attacks witnessed across 1400 sites
  • 3.48 million attacks witnessed per application
  • API attacks grew 104% in H1 2025 vs H1 2024
  • APIs are highly targeted for DDoS
  • Website vulnerability attacks grew 27%, with custom rule mitigations up 47%
  • 64 million bot attacks as 90% of sites witnessed a bot attack
  • US per app ROI: $5.1M–$14.32M per app (including $56K–$57K in operational savings)
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Frequently asked questions, answered.

​Most vendors start with signature-based detection and charge extra for behavioral analysis. AppTrana includes behavioral bot protection in every plan by default, with no forced upgrades or RPS-based billing

Yes. AppTrana protects exposed public APIs as well as private/partner APIs, ensuring safe integrations without breaking trusted machine-to-machine communication.​

Absolutely. Unlike simple rate limits, AppTrana analyzes behavior and intent across requests, detecting bots even when they operate at low request volumes or from distributed sources.​​

No. AppTrana is deployed at the edge with an optimized inspection path, ensuring negligible impact on API performance and user experience.​​

Our 24×7 managed SOC tunes workflow-based rules in real time, so valid customers, partners, and integrations are never blocked while malicious automation is stopped instantly.​

Yes. Verified bots (search engines, trusted partners, third-party tools) are identified and allowed, while malicious bots pretending to be good are blocked.​

Unlike competitors who bill based on Requests Per Second (RPS), AppTrana offers transparent, predictable pricing that includes behavioral detection, workflow rules, and SOC tuning.​

Yes. Every incident is captured with detailed timelines of attack patterns, mitigations, and outcomes — delivered as compliance-ready reports for audits, regulators, and board reviews.​

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