How to Protect Your Service API with WAF360

Protect your API servers from malicious traffic and abuse by leveraging WAF360’s AI-driven detection and blocking capabilities. This not only enhances your service reliability but also helps reduce operational costs. Follow these steps to secure your service API effectively.

Step 1: Install the WAF360 Agent

Install the WAF360 Agent on your API server or proxy and integrate it with your server environment. This allows real-time monitoring of incoming traffic.

Step 2: Collect Real-Time Data

Allow the system to gather real-time traffic data. WAF360 continuously analyzes all requests to detect suspicious patterns.

Step 3: Identify Suspicious Traffic

Review real-time data to identify high-frequency IP addresses, unusual User Agents (UA), and other suspicious traffic patterns.

Step 4: Block Malicious IPs

Use the WAF360 dashboard to block identified bad IPs manually by adding them to the block list.

Step 5: Automatic Blocking

Once blocked, these IPs are prevented from accessing your API, protecting your system from attacks and abuse.

Step 6: Define Auto-Blocking Rules (Optional)

Enhance protection by setting up automated blocking rules based on geolocation (GEO), UA patterns, IP ranges, request frequency, and other advanced data labels generated by WAF360’s AI system.

WAF360 uses AI-driven algorithms to quickly and accurately identify bad actors, outperforming traditional rule-based systems. This enables faster mitigation of threats and better protection for your API services.