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DDoS Protection

Score 16.7 / 100 12 providers +5 via APIs 10 APIs Search apis.io →
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Business capabilities this tag reaches
Cybersecurity Management 1

Providers using this tag (12)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 4 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Google Cloud ArmorFirewallGoogle CloudSecurity1 API67.3CloudflareAI GatewayAPI GatewayArtificial IntelligenceCDN25 APIs82.5Amazon ShieldAmazon Web ServicesNetworkingSecurity5 APIs71.6AWS WAFSecurityWeb Application FirewallBot Management18 APIs69.0
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
NetscoutCybersecurityNetwork MonitoringNetwork Performance8 APIs29.3ImpervaSecurityCybersecurityWAF2 APIs32.5F5 Distributed Cloud ServicesApplication SecurityWeb Application FirewallAPI SecurityMulti-Cloud Networking1 API28.8
Emerging 4 Early or largely undocumented
Arbor NetworksCompanyNetwork SecurityCybersecurity2 APIs21.7A10 NetworksApplication DeliveryLoad BalancingApplication Delivery Controller1 API25.9CDNetworksCDNCloud ServicesWeb Acceleration15.5ChinaCache (EdgeNext)CompanyCDNEdge ComputingCloud Security1 API14.1
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
AgotoZ TechnologySD-WANNetwork as a ServiceNetwork AccelerationEnterprise Networking1 API4.0

APIs with this tag (10)

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Exemplar 5 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Cloudflare DDoS Protection APIThe Cloudflare DDoS Protection API provides managed rulesets for mitigating DDoS attacks at both the applic...82.5Cloudflare Magic Transit APIThe Cloudflare Magic Transit API provides endpoints for managing network security and performance for on-pr...82.5Cloudflare Spectrum APICloudflare Spectrum extends Cloudflare's DDoS protection and performance benefits to any TCP or UDP applica...82.5F5 Essential App Protect APIAPI for managing F5's application security services including WAF policies, bot defense, and API protection.74.7Azure DDoS Protection APIManage DDoS protection plans that provide enhanced DDoS mitigation capabilities for Azure Virtual Network r...70.3
Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
IBM Cloud Internet ServicesProvide DDoS protection, global load balancing, DNS management, WAF, and CDN capabilities for internet-faci...65.8Fastly DDoS Protection APIOperations for enabling, configuring, and managing DDoS Protection on Fastly services.65.3
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
Gcore DDoS Protection APIThe DDoS Protection API from Gcore — 7 operation(s) for ddos protection.33.7Netscout Arbor Edge Defense APIREST API for Arbor Edge Defense (AED), an inline security appliance deployed at the network perimeter that ...29.3Netscout Arbor Sightline SP REST APIREST API for DDoS detection, mitigation, and threat intelligence on the Arbor Sightline platform. Provides ...29.3

Companies reaching this through an API (5)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “DDoS Protection” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Azure Networking Services F5 Fastly Gcore IBM

Score breakdown

Frequency
34.6
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.2
spread across providers
Quality lift
38.5
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
2.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Web Application Firewall 6 co-occurrences WAF 6 co-occurrences CDN 8 co-occurrences Network Security 6 co-occurrences DNS 5 co-occurrences Networking 6 co-occurrences Security 11 co-occurrences Cloud 5 co-occurrences

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