Data Flow Logic for Synthetic Request Injection for Cloud Security Enforcement

The technology disclosed describes a system. The system comprises data flow logic configured to inject an incoming request directed to a cloud application in a processing path of a particular network security system. The particular network security system is configured to use an application-specific parser to inspect certain fields and variables in the incoming request for metadata, determine that the metadata is missing, and use an application-specific template to construct a synthetic request. The data flow logic is further configured to inject the synthetic request and its corresponding response in the processing path of the particular network security system. The particular network security system is further configured to use the application-specific parser to extract the missing metadata from the corresponding response.