SaaS · L7 — credential stuffing & API abuse
SaaS API protected from credential-stuffing campaign
B2B SaaS platform reduced credential-stuffing load on its login API by orders of magnitude.
Problem
A SaaS platform was seeing slow-burn credential-stuffing traffic — high enough to spike database load and trigger pager alerts every night.
Solution
Routevara applied per-endpoint quotas and bot-classification rules in front of the login API. Suspicious traffic was challenged or dropped before it reached origin.
Result
Login API load dropped to baseline. Pager noise stopped. Engineering refocused on shipping product instead of incident response.
Origin load
baseline
Pager noise
silent
False positives
negligible