Rate limiting
Restricting how many requests a client can make in a given time, to prevent abuse or scraping.
Learn it through a story
- Every API Is a Promise Someone Will Break (Cybersecurity for Juniors 3, Ch 5)
Related terms
- Quishing Phishing carried out through a QR code instead of a link or message.
- Ransomware Software that locks or scrambles your files and demands payment to release them.
- Rate limit A cap on how much one person or account can send.
- RBAC / ABAC Role-based and attribute-based access control, two models for deciding who's allowed to do what.
- Recruitment fraud A fake job or internship offer designed to look like a genuine hiring process.
- Red flag A warning sign that something might not be what it claims to be.