Proxy risk database API can be used to hide a user’s location and to mask their IP addresses. They can also be used to simulate browser behavior, such as changing the user agent or sending cookies. Detecting proxies can help protect against identity theft and fraud by allowing only legitimate users to connect. To improve security and performance, databases must be designed with these proxies in mind. However, this can add to the complexity of a deployment, especially in high traffic systems.

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In Apigee, the proxy risk database API allows you to reduce a complex distributed system’s complexity and speed by leveraging an external service to do the heavy lifting. The Proxy Checker API works by querying an external web service to see if a public IP address has been blocked or if it’s been associated with a malicious activity. Then, the API uses that information to make decisions about the request, such as whether to allow it or deny it.

The security score for a proxy is determined by scoring the results of the assessment checks in a security profile. A security profile specifies a set of security categories and the weight for each category that API proxies are evaluated against. You can use Apigee’s default security profile, called google-default, or create a custom one that includes the security categories and their weights that are most important to you. v2 security profiles include more assessments than v1, including checking that policies in shared flows are present (as opposed to checked only for continueOnError). The number of assessed configurations for an environment shows the total of all deployed proxies that have been assessed against a given security profile.