Shape Security
Shape Security was a bot-mitigation and anti-fraud company whose behavioral and telemetry-based defenses protected web and mobile applications from automated attacks such as credential stuffing, account takeover, and fake account creation. Backed by Norwest Venture Partners and other investors, the company was acquired by F5 Networks in early 2020 and its technology now ships as F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense. Shape Security does not operate a standalone public developer API; its original shapesecurity.com domain now redirects (HTTP 301) to the F5 product page, and integration and API documentation are served from F5 developer properties (clouddocs.f5.com, my.f5.com). This profile is retained as an acquired-company record within the API Evangelist network.
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
API Evangelist profiles Shape Security the way a machine reads it — 1 machine-readable artifact, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Shape Security scores 8.5/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Shape Security
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Shape Security. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Shape Security — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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