API Protection & Security

Stop Unknown API Risk Before It Reaches Origin

As API surfaces grow, undocumented endpoints, schema drift, and abuse can bypass generic edge controls. Peakhour keeps every REST, GraphQL, and WebSocket route visible, applies route-aware policy, and records evidence your team can act on.

Protect Your APIs View API Protection Path

API inventory map showing REST, GraphQL, and WebSocket endpoints protected by schema validation, authenticated request checks, attack monitoring, and analytics evidence.

Where API Risk Enters the Request Path

Expanding API Surface

Shadow endpoints, schema drift, and route abuse create blind spots that lead to broken-object-level authorization, injection attempts, and avoidable origin load.

Route-aware Decisions

Inventory routes, validate payloads to schema, verify authentication context, and combine bot and rate signals so each request gets a clear allow, challenge, throttle, or block decision.

Operational Evidence

See route-level violations, blocked attacks, auth failures, and latency trends in dashboards and exported logs so teams can prove risk reduction and maintain API uptime.

Discover Routes Before Attackers Do

Peakhour discovers exposed routes, attaches schema and identity context, and enforces policy before requests hit origin.

Each API request carries the context needed for a specific decision.

REST, GraphQL, and WebSocket endpoints are inventoried, including shadow routes.
OpenAPI and Swagger contracts are enforced so schema drift becomes visible quickly.
GraphQL requests can use query depth limits, field-level access rules, and introspection policy.
Identity context, rate limits, and bot signals are combined by route and method.
JSON and XML payloads are parsed so malicious or invalid requests can be blocked at the edge.

Schema validation interface showing valid API requests allowed and schema violations blocked before origin.

Dashboard Evidence for Security and Platform Teams

Protection decisions are only useful when operators can verify them. Peakhour provides route-level evidence that ties alerts to concrete API behavior.

Risk Route views Endpoint risk and violations

Decision Policy logs Allow, challenge, throttle, block

Export SIEM ready Evidence for operations

API observability dashboard showing endpoint risk, schema violations, blocked attack classes, authentication failures, and latency evidence. — Route-level evidence

Route risk views

Policy decision logs

Audit evidence trail

Teams can prove which requests were blocked, which routes need work, and how API risk is moving over time.

Enterprise API Security Operations

Keep the API surface visible as it changes, attach each route to schema and identity checks, and operate from evidence instead of guesswork.

Catalogue production, shadow, and legacy REST, GraphQL, and WebSocket routes with ownership and risk state.
Use Peakhour Edge as your edge, or add Peakhour intelligence to the existing CDN or edge you already run.
Separate policies for development, staging, and production APIs.
Work with existing gateways and export schema violations, blocked attacks, and route evidence to SIEM platforms.
Create application-specific security rules by route, method, authentication state, and payload shape.
Support high-availability API delivery with a 99.99% uptime SLA and global failover.

Endpoint inventory table listing REST, GraphQL, and WebSocket routes with owners, schema status, and risk levels.

Related evidence

API Risk Reduced in Production

Customer examples that connect Peakhour controls to production outcomes.

Gumtree

Eliminating Bot Traffic and Reclaiming Platform Control

Gumtree, Australia's leading marketplace, battled significant bot traffic that skewed analytics, enabled scammers, and increased infrastructure costs. Peakhour's bot management solution reduced unwanted traffic by 75%, dramatically lowered costs, improved performance, and created a new revenue stream.

75% Reduction in Unwanted Traffic 80% Reduction in Fraud Score New Revenue Stream Created

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Close API Gaps with Route-level Protection and Evidence

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Compact API protection workflow showing endpoint discovery, schema validation, threat monitoring, and logged evidence.

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