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AppTrana API Bot Protection

Stop credential stuffing, scraping, and fraud on your APIs with always-on behavioral detection

Behavioral Bot Detection Built-In AI/ML-based detection included — no forced upgrades, no RPS billing traps
Workflow-Based Protection Tailored bot policies matched to your specific API business logic
24×7 Managed SOC Oversight Real-time tuning, zero false positives, and audit-ready reports

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Protecting thousands of applications. Blocking billions of attacks.

Platform metrics

<5 Min

From a DNS change to complete protection

100%

Of apps protected in block mode from day one

<72 hrs

The only WAAP that patches open vulnerabilities in hours

6,500+

Customers protected across 95+ countries

API bot Protection - Block All Types of Automated API Abuse

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

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

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

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

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

A Customers' Choice for 2024, 2023 and 2022 Gartner^® Peer Insights™