99.9%
Uptime SLA
<200ms
Risk scoring time
10B+
Breach records checked
Real-time✓
Decision engine
Overview

What is a Cyber Security Verification API?

A Cyber Security Verification API is a REST interface that detects fraud, flags compromised credentials, and generates risk scores per transaction or user in real time. It identifies suspicious identities, device fingerprints, and behavioural patterns before they cause losses — enabling proactive fraud prevention in fintech, payment, and onboarding workflows.

Traditional fraud detection reacts after the damage is done — chargebacks, fake accounts, and stolen credentials are discovered post-incident. Our API flips that model. Every login, signup, and transaction gets a risk score in under 200 milliseconds. You set the thresholds, and fraud is blocked at the source — before it hits your revenue or reputation.

Fintechs use it to stop fake accounts at onboarding. Payment gateways use it to flag high-risk transactions. Digital lending platforms use it to identify loan fraud. E-commerce marketplaces use it to reduce chargebacks. Any platform where fraud costs money — or trust — benefits from real-time risk intelligence.

What You Can Detect

Complete Cyber Risk Intelligence

Multiple fraud signals combined into a single decision your platform can act on instantly.

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Compromised Credentials

Check emails, phone numbers, and password hashes against 10+ billion records from known data breaches. Identify accounts at risk before attackers use them.

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Device Fingerprinting

Track devices across sessions. Detect emulators, rooted devices, and known fraud devices. Flag when the same device is used across multiple suspicious accounts.

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IP & Geo Signals

Identify VPNs, proxies, TOR nodes, and known fraud IP ranges. Detect geographic anomalies — logins from unexpected locations or impossible travel patterns.

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Velocity Checks

Detect rapid-fire signups, transactions, or login attempts from the same source. Identify bot traffic and account farming attempts.

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Risk Score (0-100)

A single number representing the likelihood of fraud. Configurable thresholds let your platform decide: allow, review, or block — automatically.

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Signal Breakdown

See exactly which signals contributed to a score. Enables transparent decisions, analyst review workflows, and compliance audit trails.

Key Features

Real-Time Fraud Prevention at Scale

Built for platforms where fraud detection must be instant, accurate, and invisible to legitimate users.

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Sub-200ms Risk Scoring

Every request returns a risk score in under 200 milliseconds. Fast enough to run inline with logins, signups, and payments — no perceptible delay.

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Multi-Signal Intelligence

Combines credentials, devices, IPs, behaviour, and velocity into one score. Higher accuracy than single-signal checks, fewer false positives.

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Configurable Thresholds

Set your own allow / review / block thresholds. Tune the balance between fraud prevention and friction for your specific risk profile.

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No PII Exposure

Inputs are hashed client-side. The API never stores raw emails, phones, or account numbers. Compliant with Indian data protection regulations.

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Batch & Bulk Mode

Score up to 10,000 records per batch for retroactive fraud sweeps or bulk re-verification of existing user bases.

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Webhook Alerts

Real-time webhooks when high-risk events are detected. Trigger manual reviews, user alerts, or automated account freezes.

How It Works

From Risk Query to Decision in Milliseconds

Three steps. No friction for legit users. No delay for fraud detection.

01
Send the risk query

Your app sends user identifiers — email hash, phone hash, device fingerprint, IP — during login, signup, or checkout. Sensitive fields are hashed before transmission.

02
We score in real time

Multiple signals — credentials, devices, IPs, behaviour, velocity — are combined into a risk score from 0 to 100, along with a signal breakdown.

03
Act on the decision

You receive the risk score and a suggested decision — allow, review, or block. Your app applies your thresholds to decide what happens next.

Use Cases

Who Uses Cyber Security Verification

Deployed across fintech, payments, marketplaces, and any platform where fraud costs real money.

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Payment Gateways & PSPs

Screen every transaction for fraud risk before authorization. Reduce chargebacks, block card-testing attacks, and flag suspicious merchant patterns. Protect your platform from becoming a fraud vector.

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Fintech & Digital Lending

Detect synthetic identities and account farming during onboarding. Flag loan fraud attempts based on device, IP, and velocity signals. Block repeat offenders who re-register with new credentials.

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E-Commerce & Marketplaces

Reduce chargebacks from fraudulent orders. Detect promo abuse and coupon fraud. Identify suspicious seller accounts before they list fraudulent products. Protect customer accounts from takeovers.

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Digital Onboarding Platforms

Score every signup for risk. Reduce fake account registrations, bot traffic, and promotional abuse. Trigger additional verification (KYC, OTP) only for high-risk signups — not for every user.

Business Benefits

What Changes When You Add Real-Time Risk Scoring

Integrating our Cyber Security API moves fraud detection from reactive to proactive — permanently.

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Reduce Fraud Losses by 40-70%

Block fraud before it completes. Companies using real-time risk scoring report 40-70% reductions in fraud losses within the first quarter of deployment.

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Zero Friction for Legit Users

Good users see no delay. Bad actors are silently flagged. Unlike CAPTCHAs or OTP gates, risk scoring is invisible — improving conversion while improving security.

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Reduce Manual Review Workload

Stop reviewing every transaction or signup. Risk scoring lets your fraud team focus only on the 1-5% of cases that actually need human judgement.

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Lower Cost Per Fraud Case

Chargebacks, refunds, and customer service costs from fraud decrease dramatically. Pay only for API calls — usually a fraction of what one prevented fraud case saves.

Before vs After
🛡️ Fraud loss rate
Before: Reactive
-60%
⚡ Decision speed
Before: Days of review
<200ms
👥 Manual review load
Before: 100% of signups
1-5%
🚀 Time to integrate
Before: Months of build
<1 day
✅ User friction
Before: CAPTCHA/OTP every time
Zero
Comparison

API Express vs Alternatives

What sets our Cyber Security Verification API apart from other providers.

FeatureAPI ExpressRule-Based SystemsGlobal Providers
Setup time<1 dayWeeks-monthsDays-weeks
Risk scoring time<200msVaries300-500ms
Signals usedCredentials, device, IP, behaviour, velocityRules you writeMultiple
Breach DB coverage10B+ recordsNoneVaries
India-specific fraud signalsYesManualLimited
Free tier1,000 callsN/ALimited
Batch mode10,000/batchN/ASome
Support response<4 hrsN/A24-48 hrs
Why API Express

The Cyber Security API Built for Indian Platforms

Choosing a fraud prevention provider is a long-term decision. Here's what makes API Express different.

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India-First Signals

Fraud patterns specific to Indian markets — UPI fraud, KYC fraud, and India-specific device/bot networks. Not a US-centric model with shallow India accuracy.

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Sub-200ms Response

Fast enough to run inline with login, signup, and payment flows without user-facing delay. Invisible security, instant decisions.

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Privacy-First Design

Inputs are hashed. No raw PII transmitted or stored. Compliant with Indian data protection regulations. Safe for any workflow that handles user data.

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Transparent Pricing

Pay-as-you-go, no minimum commitment. Volume discounts apply automatically. No setup fees, no hidden charges, no surprise invoices.

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Support Under 4 Hours

Real people via email, WhatsApp, and phone. Integration help included free. Enterprise clients get a named account manager.

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Free Tier to Start

Your first 1,000 API calls free — no credit card. Test risk scoring, breach checks, and decision logic in sandbox.

Coverage

Multiple Fraud Signals. One Risk Score.

Every signal that matters for modern fraud prevention — combined into a single decision.

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Credentials
10B+ breach records
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Device Signals
Fingerprint & emulator detect
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Network Signals
IP, VPN, proxy, geo
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Behaviour Signals
Velocity & patterns
Multi-Signal Intelligence Every signal that matters for modern fraud detection — combined into a single risk score.
10B+
Breach records
<200ms
Response
24/7
Availability
Technical Highlights

Built on Standards Developers Trust

Our Cyber Security Verification API is built on industry-standard technology — designed for easy integration, high performance, and privacy compliance.

🔗 REST API

Single POST endpoint for risk scoring and credential checks.

📦 JSON Response

Structured JSON with score, decision, and signal breakdown.

🔐 Privacy-Safe

Hashed inputs · TLS 1.3 · No PII stored · Full audit logs.

📈 Auto-Scaling

Multi-zone redundancy · High-throughput risk scoring at any volume.

🔔 Webhooks

Real-time alerts for high-risk events. Trigger workflows instantly.

🧪 Sandbox

Test with mock identifiers. No charges for sandbox calls.

Endpoint Reference
POST
/v1/security/risk
Risk Score Request
{ "email_hash": "sha256:8f3a...", "phone_hash": "sha256:2b9c...", "device_id": "fp_abc123", "ip": "203.0.113.45" }
Credential Check Request
{ "type": "password_breach", "hash": "sha1:5baa61e4..." }
Response
{ "status": "success", "risk_score": 12, "decision": "allow", "signals": { "credential_breach": false, "device_risk": "low", "ip_risk": "low" } }
FAQ

Cyber Security Verification API — Common Questions

Quick answers to the questions we hear most often. Contact us if yours isn't here.

A Cyber Security Verification API is a REST interface that detects fraud, flags compromised credentials, and generates risk scores per transaction or user in real time. It identifies suspicious identities, device fingerprints, and behavioural patterns before they cause losses — enabling proactive fraud prevention in fintech, payment, and onboarding workflows.

The API combines multiple signals — device fingerprinting, compromised credential databases, historical fraud patterns, behavioural anomalies, and velocity checks — to generate a risk score for each transaction or user. Scores range from 0 (safe) to 100 (high risk), enabling your platform to make instant allow / review / block decisions.

A risk score is a numerical value (0-100) representing the likelihood that a transaction or user is fraudulent. You set your own thresholds — for example, allow scores under 30, manually review 30-70, block above 70. This lets you balance fraud prevention with friction-free user experience.

Yes. The API checks passwords, emails, and phone numbers against known data breach databases to identify credentials that have been exposed in past leaks. This allows you to force password resets or block login attempts from compromised accounts.

The API returns a risk score in under 200 milliseconds. This is fast enough to run in-line with login, payment, and signup flows without perceptible user-facing delay.

Sign up free, get your API key instantly, and call the endpoint during your login, signup, or transaction flow. Full documentation, sandbox environment, and code samples in Node.js, Python, PHP, and cURL are provided. Most integrations take under a day.

Yes. All requests are authenticated using unique API keys over HTTPS with TLS 1.3 encryption. No raw PII is transmitted in requests — inputs are hashed. The API itself complies with Indian data protection regulations.

Yes. Your first 1,000 API calls are completely free with no credit card required. Test fraud detection, risk scoring, and compromised credential checks in our sandbox before going live.

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