Guide to integrating proxy detection API

Protect your platform from fraud by detecting and preventing proxies, VPNs, and Tor connections.
A Guide to integrating proxy detection API component of any website or app is the ability to identify and protect against unauthorized access, account creation, transactions, clicks, scraping, and other malicious activities. Proxies and VPNs are popular tools for masking real IP addresses, and while they can be used for legitimate purposes, they are also frequently employed by fraudsters attempting to bypass security measures, commit fraud, or otherwise circumvent platform policies.

Check IP Reputation to Prevent Fraudulent Activity: Strengthen Cyber Defense

Our proxy detection API identifies a broad range of undesirable shared connections, including open proxies, anonymous proxies, botnets, residential proxies, and more. In addition, it offers a variety of risk data points such as geo-location, connection type, and ISP information. This allows you to add context to your fraud detection efforts by comparing the gathered information against existing user accounts or other known threats.

Using a combination of honeypots & traps, blacklists, forensic analysis, and client feedback loops, we are able to deliver an unrivaled detection rate for residential proxies, compromised devices, and iCloud Private Relay IP addresses (anonymizing proxies used by Apple devices). We also offer an advanced mode that excludes these types of connections from the standard results and allows you to tailor your settings based on your specific risk tolerance.

To incorporate our proxy detection API, simply add the Enhanced Proxy Detection with GeoGuard – Header Enrichment behavior to a rule in your property and select a unique match criteria. This will ensure that only requests that meet this specific rule will include the header.