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title: Enabling and disabling ASE attack detection
description: API Security Enforcer (ASE) supports real-time ASE attack detection and blocking for application programming interface (API) Deception. ASE blocks hackers that probe a decoy API and try to access a real business API. For more information, see API Deception Environment.
component: pingintelligence
version: 5.2
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revdate: April 24, 2024
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  about-this-task: About this task
  steps: Steps
  example: Example:
  result: Result:
  example-2: Example:
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# Enabling and disabling ASE attack detection

API Security Enforcer (ASE) supports real-time ASE attack detection and blocking for application programming interface (API) *(tooltip: \<div class="paragraph">
\<p>A specification of interactions available for building software to access an application or service.\</p>
\</div>)* Deception. ASE blocks hackers that probe a decoy API and try to access a real business API. For more information, see [API Deception Environment](pingintelligence_api_deception_environment_sideband.html).

## About this task

To enable and disable ASE attack detection:

## Steps

* To enable real-time ASE attack detection, run the `enable_ase_detected_attack` command on the ASE command-line interface (CLI).

  ### Example:

  ```
  /opt/pingidentity/ase/bin/cli.sh -u admin -p admin enable_ase_detected_attack
  ```

  ### Result:

  ASE detected attack is now enabled.

* To disable real-time ASE detected attacks, run the `disable_ase_detected_attack` command on the ASE CLI.

  ### Example:

  ```
  /opt/pingidentity/ase/bin/cli.sh -u admin -p admin disable_ase_detected_attack
  ASE detected attack is now disabled
  ```

  ### Result:

  Attacks are now deleted from the deny list.