API Bot Protection

Detect and Stop Automated API Abuse

Detect automation campaigns as they build across login, token, cart, checkout, and account journeys, then apply scoped edge controls that reduce fraud, Layer 7 pressure, and account abuse while trusted clients keep moving.

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Bot behaviour detection board showing sessions, automation signals, risk scoring, and mitigation decisions.

Recognise Bot Campaigns Before They Become Incidents

API bot abuse behaves like a campaign. The same automation profile can test credentials, rotate residential proxies, change device fingerprints, scrape product data, and push Layer 7 pressure until a workflow gives way.

Credential and Session Abuse

Bots replay leaked credentials, cycle token grants, and test MFA bypass patterns across account and checkout endpoints.

Low-and-Slow Enumeration

Distributed agents mimic normal clients while profiling product, pricing, or account data through repeated API reads.

Automation Against Business Logic

Bots exploit reservation, coupon, order, and pricing workflows to drain inventory, waste discounts, and skew commercial outcomes.

Bot behaviour detection map linking session signals, proxy rotation, request cadence, and risk score.

Turn Bot Signals into Targeted API Actions

The behaviour map shows how the campaign forms. Dashboard evidence confirms which proxy, fingerprint, cadence, and route signals triggered action, which API journeys were protected, and which legitimate clients stayed clear of friction.

Signals Proxy and device patterns Detect rotation and mismatch

Score Session risk bands Separate trusted and suspect clients

Action Challenge, limit, block Apply scoped mitigation

Business impact Fraud, account, and load reduction Track protected journeys

Bot control dashboard showing API path and bot fingerprint rule conditions with a deny action. — API bot rule action

Stop automated account and checkout abuse Fraud defence

Reduce bot and Layer 7 bursts before they hit origin Reliability

Tune account, fraud, and API actions from request evidence Response speed

API bot protection stays focused on campaign detection and mitigation decisions, then feeds the broader API security and traffic-quality workflow when endpoint governance or DDoS response needs to take over.

What Teams Gain from API Bot Protection

Lower Fraud Losses

Reduce account takeover, promo abuse, and automated transaction fraud tied to API workflows.

Reduce DDoS and Origin Pressure

Keep latency and origin load stable by curbing abusive API bursts and Layer 7 request pressure before it scales.

Faster Incident Response

Move from alert to action quickly with request evidence that shows the route, signal, action, and account or fraud impact.

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API Bot Abuse 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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We could finally separate partner traffic from automation abuse across the same API estate. The response team now has clear evidence for each mitigation step.

Platform Security Lead, Australian Digital Services Provider

Extend Protection Across API Abuse Paths

Verified Browser Trust

For browser-backed API journeys, separate trusted browser sessions from scripts replaying token, cart, login, or account request shape.

API Protection Platform

Move from bot campaign control into endpoint discovery, schema validation, route evidence, and API governance.

Account Takeover Prevention

Use credential, proxy, device, and behaviour signals to stop automated account abuse before sensitive actions continue.

Online Fraud Prevention

Connect API automation signals to fraud controls for promo abuse, checkout manipulation, and invalid traffic.

DDoS Mitigation

Bring Layer 7 flood pressure into the same edge response path as bot, rate, and WAAP controls.

Protect Critical API Journeys from Bot Abuse

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Score-to-action evidence view showing suspicious API sessions challenged and blocked while trusted traffic continues.

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