Layer7 Networking × Cequence Security

API security that sees what firewalls cannot — protecting the new perimeter.

About Cequence Security

Cequence Security is the leading API security platform, purpose-built to discover, monitor, and protect APIs against automated threats, fraud, and business logic abuse. As APIs become the primary interface for digital business — powering mobile apps, partner integrations, microservices, and cloud-native architectures — they have become the most exploited attack vector in modern application security.

Cequence's Unified API Protection (UAP) platform addresses the entire API security lifecycle: API discovery and inventory (finding every API, including shadow and zombie APIs), API conformance (detecting misconfigurations and specification drift), and API runtime protection (blocking bots, credential stuffing, scraping, and business logic attacks in real time).

Powered by machine learning and behavioural analysis, Cequence distinguishes legitimate traffic from malicious automation without relying on signatures, CAPTCHAs, or JavaScript injection — making it effective against even the most sophisticated bot operators who actively evade traditional defences.

Why Layer7 Chose Cequence Security

The API is the new perimeter. While organisations invest millions in network firewalls, endpoint protection, and email security, their APIs often sit exposed — unauthenticated, unmonitored, and undocumented. API attacks now account for the majority of web application breaches, and traditional WAFs are blind to the business logic abuse that defines modern API exploitation.

Layer7 selected Cequence because our clients are building API-first architectures — and those APIs need protection that understands application context, not just packet signatures. Cequence sees what firewalls cannot: credential stuffing attacks that use valid credentials, scraping bots that mimic human behaviour, and fraud automation that exploits legitimate business workflows.

For financial services, e-commerce, and digital platform clients, API abuse translates directly to revenue loss, data breach, and regulatory sanction. Cequence gives Layer7 the capability to discover every API in the estate (including the ones nobody knows about), assess their risk posture, and protect them in real time — closing the gap that traditional security architectures leave wide open.

How Layer7 Delivers Cequence Security

• API Discovery and Inventory — Deployment of Cequence sensors to discover all APIs across the environment, including shadow APIs, deprecated endpoints, and undocumented services. Full API catalogue with risk scoring.

• API Security Assessment — Conformance testing against OpenAPI specifications, OWASP API Security Top 10 analysis, and authentication/authorisation gap identification.

• Bot and Fraud Protection — Configuration of runtime protection policies to detect and block credential stuffing, account takeover, content scraping, and automated fraud — without impacting legitimate users.

• API Gateway Integration — Integration with existing API gateways (Kong, Apigee, AWS API Gateway) and WAFs to provide defence-in-depth without architectural disruption.

• Threat Intelligence and Reporting — Continuous monitoring of API threat landscape with regular reporting on attack volumes, bot signatures, and emerging threat patterns specific to the client's API estate.

• Incident Response for API Attacks — Layer7's SOC incorporates Cequence alerts into incident response workflows, providing rapid containment and forensic analysis for API-layer security events.