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“Top Tier API Protection and bot defense.”
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Cequence Security specializes in API security and bot management, delivering Unified API Protection (UAP) uniting discovery, compliance, and protection across all internal and external APIs to defend against attacks, targeted abuse, and fraud. Requiring less than 15 minutes to onboard an API without requiring any instrumentation, SDK, or JavaScript integration, the flexible deployment model supports SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid installations. 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.
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Dashboard experience: The most impressive part of Cequence is how they've unified API Sentinel (for discovery/posture) and API Spartan (for bot mitigation) into a single dashboard. Instead of jumping between tabs, I can see our total API footprint, shadow APIs and active bot attacks in one view. Threat classification: I love the ML-based classification that breaks down traffic into categories like Account Takeover or Scraping rather than just generic Bot labels. Customer Support Team: Many security tools are set it and forget it, but Cequence is different. Their support team acts as a proactive partner. We've had regular syncs where they help us analyze new traffic patterns and fine-tune our API Spartan policies to stay ahead of re-tooling bots. You aren't just talking to a generalist help desk. Their engineers understand API architecture and the nuances of credential stuffing. When we had a complex integration issue with our NGINX ingress, their team was in the trenches with us until it was resolved.
Fingerprinting, tagging, detailed traffic, customer service
Modules that can be purchased separately and level of configuration for scans
Complexity: Initial setup and policy tuning require a high level of technical expertise. UI Performance: Large data queries can lead to dashboard lag or slow response times. Reporting Flexibility: Customizing executive-level reports is less intuitive than technical logs. Data Retention: Standard log retention periods can feel short without upgrading for extended storage.
technical problems, not enough information, slowness, no ML
External scanning can provide too many false positives.
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- Engineer10B+ USDTelecommunicationReview Source
Top Tier API Protection and bot defense.
Top-tier API Protection and bot defense. Cequence Security provides a comprehensive look at your entire API footprint. Unlike traditional WAFs, it understands the nuances of API traffic. The dashboard is intuitive and the automated threat mitigation has saved our team countless hours of manual tuning. Their support team is hands-on, responsive, and great to work with. If you are running a high-volume API environment, this is a must-have for visibility. Highly recommended for any enterprise scaling their digital services. - ENTERPRISE SECURITY ARCHITECT10B+ USDConsumer GoodsReview Source
All encompassing API security solution with good modularity and excellent support
Provides good coverage across domains and integration with our Integrations platform; the UX has been constantly updated to reflect improvements. Support team is quite helpful and provides multiple options of integrations, making it a future-proof technology. - Manager, It Security And Risk Management1B-10B USDBankingReview Source
Traffic and Signature Dashboards Receive Positive Feedback from Users
The logging and reporting dashboard provides better insight with threat and traffic analysis - Senior Cloud Engineer50M-1B USDTransportationReview Source
Secure and reliable API management tool with great capability to handle high API traffic
The fact that it covers the full API lifecycle increased ease of management, maintenance and deployment of the APIs. - Head of Engineering50M-1B USDMediaReview Source
Incredibly powerful product suite for bots and scraping threats
We have been really impressed with Cequence since bringing them onboard to help us combat some incredibly sophisticated and motivated bot traffic. They quickly got up to speed with the requirements of our business and platform, and the output of their threat detection team has increased exponentially the more familiar they become with our business model. Their ability to mitigate traffic and provide different experiences based on risk, as opposed to merely blocking traffic, has meant that we have been able to complement their services with our own verification features to reduce the impact of bot detection on legitimate users.