Shape Security

Shape Security was a bot-mitigation and anti-fraud company whose behavioral and telemetry-based defenses protected web and mobile applications from automated attacks such as credential stuffing, account takeover, and fake account creation. Backed by Norwest Venture Partners and other investors, the company was acquired by F5 Networks in early 2020 and its technology now ships as F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense. Shape Security does not operate a standalone public developer API; its original shapesecurity.com domain now redirects (HTTP 301) to the F5 product page, and integration and API documentation are served from F5 developer properties (clouddocs.f5.com, my.f5.com). This profile is retained as an acquired-company record within the API Evangelist network.

Shape Security is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Security, Bot Mitigation, Fraud Prevention, and Account Takeover.

Shape Security’s developer surface includes documentation and 2 more developer resources.

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8.5/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanySecurityBot MitigationFraud PreventionAccount TakeoverAcquiredF5

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 8.5/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Shapesecurity Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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name: Shape Security
description: Shape Security was a bot-mitigation and anti-fraud company whose behavioral and telemetry-based defenses protected
  web and mobile applications from automated attacks such as credential stuffing, account takeover, and fake account creation.
  Backed by Norwest Venture Partners and other investors, the company was acquired by F5 Networks in early 2020 and its technology
  now ships as F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense. Shape Security does not operate a standalone public developer API; its original
  shapesecurity.com domain now redirects (HTTP 301) to the F5 product page, and integration and API documentation are served
  from F5 developer properties (clouddocs.f5.com, my.f5.com). This profile is retained as an acquired-company record within
  the API Evangelist network.
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x-acquired-year: 2020
x-successor-product: F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
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created: '2026-07-17'
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- Bot Mitigation
- Fraud Prevention
- Account Takeover
- Acquired
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maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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- type: Website
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- type: Documentation
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