API Spartan - Bot management - Bot defense

API Spartan

Bot Management and Fraud Prevention

API Spartan protects organizations from the full range of bot attacks to prevent data loss, theft, and fraud, eliminating harmful business impacts such as downtime, brand damage, skewed sales analytics, and increased infrastructure costs.
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API Spartan is part of the Cequence Unified API Protection platform
or available as separate Bot Management and Fraud Prevention modules.

No Application Modification

No shelfware here – API Spartan deploys quickly, passive or inline. It requires no server- or client-side agents, JavaScript, or SDK integration, eliminating downstream penalties such as extended development cycles, slow page loads, and increased cloud costs.
Bot Management - Complements existing infrastructure” to “On-premises, SaaS, or Hybrid
Bot Management – coverage for web applications, mobile devices, and cloud- and microservices-based architectures.

Coverage for All Applications 

API Spartan protects any application, extending protection beyond applications and infrastructure that support application-specific toolkits to include web applications, mobile devices, and cloud- and microservices-based architectures.

Rapid Time
to Value

Every business and vertical faces different threats. API Spartan is immediately effective upon deployment, and highly customizable to meet the unique needs of your business.
API Security – API Spartan, API traffic and the amount of bot traffic vs. legitimate traffic and how much was mitigated.
Fraud Prevention – Behavior based attack fingerprinting to identify malicious traffic

Behavior-based Attack Fingerprinting

API Spartan delivers highly-effective API and web application protection using multi-dimensional machine learning techniques that identify malicious traffic based on behavior. The CQAI machine learning engine improves attack detection and evolves with sophisticated attacks, even as attackers re-tool to avoid detection.

API Fraud Prevention 

API Spartan supports customizable, granular policies for fraud prevention use cases specific to your business, blocks activity matching those policies in real time, and provides detailed information for analysis of each fraud campaign. Fraud Prevention is offered as part of the Cequence UAP platform, or as a standalone API Spartan module.
API Fraud Prevention – the API Spartan dashboard shows the location of identified attackers across the world.

Ulta Beauty Prevents Novel API Attacks with API Spartan

Bot Defense - blocked attacks by API Spartan showing blocked traffic vs. blocked traffic on inventory API and percentage of total.
Ulta Beauty faced a persistent, high-volume inventory API scraping attack designed to enable real-world robbery [JD1] opportunities. The attack had costs beyond inventory loss, including infrastructure and labor costs. API Spartan identified the malicious traffic, blocked tens of millions of bogus requests, and saved tens of thousands of dollars.

API Spartan is Part of the
Cequence Unified API 
Protection Platform 

The Cequence Unified API Protection platform unites discovery, compliance, and protection across all internal and external APIs to defend against attacks, targeted abuse, and fraud. Onboard APIs in minutes, without requiring any instrumentation, SDK, or JavaScript deployments. Cequence solutions scale to handle the most demanding Fortune and Global 2000 organizations, securing more than 8 billion daily API calls and protecting more than 3 billion user accounts.
API Spartan bot management and defense for the Cequence Unified API Protection Platform

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