The use case: how Caliente deploys Cloudflare WAF
Caliente.mx uses Cloudflare WAF together with API Shield to reduce bot and exploit attacks and to gain visibility into its exposed APIs. The security team reviews the WAF dashboard daily to monitor activity and spot patterns from the previous 24 hours.
More reported results
Figures published in Cloudflare WAF’s case study. They are not independently measured by usedby.
now caches 99.7% of eligible traffic
a 90% reduction in requests reaching origin servers
In the customer’s words
Prior to using Cloudflare, we had no visibility into the APIs we had exposed,” says Gross. “API Shield gave us the ability to observe and act on data.Other companies using Cloudflare WAF
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With Cloudflare WAF and Cloudflare API Shield, the company has reduced attempted bot and exploit attacks while gaining visibility into its full API footprint that it didn’t have before.