API Protection & Security

Stop Unknown API Risk Before It Reaches Origin

As API surfaces grow, undocumented endpoints, schema drift, bot traffic, and proxy-backed abuse can bypass generic perimeter controls. Peakhour keeps every REST, GraphQL, and WebSocket route visible, applies API, WAF/WAAP, bot, rate, and origin-protection policy in one path, 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 WAF/WAAP, bot, proxy, 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.

API protection should not sit apart from bot management, WAF policy, rate limiting, and traffic control. Peakhour runs those decisions together on Peakhour Edge or beside the CDN and cloud edge you already operate, so teams get one model instead of another disconnected gateway console.

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 before origin.

Proxy reputation alone is not enough. Attackers build private networks and rotate exits faster than static databases can keep up, so Peakhour treats proxy status as one live signal alongside fingerprint drift, route behaviour, and authentication context.

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 the delivery layer, or add Peakhour intelligence to the existing CDN or edge provider you already run.
Separate policies for development, staging, and production APIs.
Operate WAF/WAAP, API policy, bot scoring, rate limiting, traffic controls, and origin protection from the same managed request decision path.
Work with existing gateways and export schema violations, blocked attacks, and route evidence to SIEM platforms.
Treat residential and private proxy drift as a live risk signal, not a fixed database lookup.
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.

Connect API Security to the Operating Model

WAAP and WAF Controls

Apply WAF, API, bot, rate, and DDoS decisions in one application security path.

Bot Management

Score automation against API routes with fingerprint, private network, proxy drift, and behaviour signals.

API Bot Protection

Protect login, checkout, account, and token journeys from automated API abuse.

DDoS Protection

Absorb Layer 7 API pressure with request actions and mitigation evidence.

Related evidence

API Risk Reduced in Production

Customer examples that connect Peakhour controls to production outcomes.

Gumtree

Improving Traffic Quality 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 improved the origin traffic mix, cleaned up campaign analytics, protected A/B testing data, and created a new revenue stream.

3.3x Cleaner Origin Mix Clean Campaign Analytics 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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