# Signal Sciences Core API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/signal-sciences/core-api/  
**Provider:** Signal Sciences — https://apis.io/providers/signal-sciences/  
**Base URL:** https://dashboard.signalsciences.net  
**Documentation:** https://www.fastly.com/documentation/reference/api/ngwaf/

Signal Sciences Core API is published by [Signal Sciences](https://apis.io/providers/signal-sciences/) on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Security, WAF, Web Application Firewall, API Security, and Next-Gen WAF. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, and authentication docs.

The Signal Sciences Core API (now the Fastly Next-Gen WAF control-plane API) is a REST API served at https://dashboard.signalsciences.net/api/v0 that lets developers manage the Next-Gen WAF programmatically. Resources are organized under a corp then site hierarchy and include Agent Keys, Agents, Custom Dashboards, Custom Signals, Events, Header Links, Lists, Rate Limited Sources, Redactions, Reports, Requests, Rules, Simulate, Thresholds, Time Series, Virtual Patches, Workspace Alerts, and Workspaces. Authentication is token-based (a session token obtained from POST /auth, or a personal API access token). Responses are JSON; errors use a {"message": ...} envelope.

## Machine-readable artifacts (6)

- **Documentation** — https://www.fastly.com/documentation/reference/api/ngwaf/
- **APIReference** — https://www.fastly.com/documentation/reference/api/ngwaf/
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/signal-sciences/refs/heads/main/authentication/signal-sciences-authentication.yml
- **Conventions** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/signal-sciences/refs/heads/main/conventions/signal-sciences-conventions.yml
- **ErrorCatalog** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/signal-sciences/refs/heads/main/errors/signal-sciences-problem-types.yml
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/signal-sciences/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Tags

Security, WAF, Web Application Firewall, API Security, Next-Gen WAF

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/signal-sciences/core-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/signal-sciences/.