From Discovery to Testing: Akamai and Snyk Deliver Seamless API Security
APIs are the backbone of AI and today’s digital transformation, enabling new services, automation, and customer experiences. But as APIs multiply across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments, they also expand the attack surface, making visibility, management, and security more challenging than ever.
Akamai API Security addresses this challenge with protection across the entire API lifecycle — from deep, continuous discovery and posture management to runtime threat detection and pre-deployment vulnerability testing with Active Testing. We help enterprises uncover every API in their environment, surface hidden risks, and plug gaps long before attackers get close.
But we also know that modern security and development teams need flexibility. Many organizations want the freedom to integrate preferred tools into their workflows without sacrificing coverage or oversight.
That’s why we’re excited to announce a new integration between Akamai and Snyk, designed to give our customers even greater choice in how they test, remediate, and secure their APIs.
Bridge discovery and testing
Modern enterprises manage hundreds or even thousands of APIs. Akamai API Security helps to continuously discover these APIs in your environment, including internal and external endpoints, undocumented shadow APIs, and traffic patterns across content delivery networks (CDNs), web application firewalls (WAFs), API gateways, and cloud services. We also scan code repositories and infer schemas like OpenAPI specs, which are essential for effective testing.
Now, with the new integration of Snyk API & Web DAST engine, our joint customers can automatically sync their comprehensive API inventories and schemas without any manual steps to instantly launch dynamic security assessments with a single click. As a result, customers can ensure that their APIs are evaluated in the way that best aligns with each team’s preferred workflows.
Developers can test seamlessly in the environments that they use every day, while security professionals can maintain comprehensive oversight across the entire API landscape.
By bridging Akamai’s enterprise security capabilities with Snyk’s developer-focused experience, organizations gain the freedom to customize their approach to API testing and remediation and strengthen their security without disrupting innovation.
Benefits for Snyk and Akamai customers
With this integration, organizations gain the confidence that every API is included in their security and testing program. Instead of being limited to a single workflow, customers now have the freedom to use Akamai’s native Active Testing, Snyk’s AI-driven DAST engine, or both, tailoring their approach to fit team preferences and established practices.
This flexible testing strategy makes it possible to surface and address vulnerabilities earlier in the development process, reduce risk, and accelerate remediation timelines.
Protect APIs
Whether you’re focused on risk reduction or looking for frictionless, toolchain-integrated scans, Akamai and Snyk are committed to helping you protect APIs at every stage of their lifecycle by combining their market-leading capabilities to deliver comprehensive, flexible security.
How to get started
Request your personalized demo today and see how Akamai and Snyk work together to give you complete API visibility, seamless testing, and faster remediation — all without slowing innovation.
