Get 24/7 API protection with expert-led monitoring, investigation, and response — purpose-built to augment your SOC and cut mean time to detect and respond.
What’s included
24/7 monitoring and support
Continuous detection of malicious or high‑risk API activity, with always-on SOCC coverage.
Expert incident investigation and response
API security–trained analysts triage alerts, investigate incidents, and deliver mitigations and actionable recommendations with root-cause guidance. Mitigation is available only for traffic on Akamai’s platform.
Behavioral threat hunting
Proactive hunts for attack patterns, vulnerabilities, and anomalies to surface posture gaps before they’re exploited.
Escalation management
Coordinated handoffs and prioritization for critical events, with enhanced SLAs for faster detection and response across your defenses.
Advisory and operationalization services
Ongoing guidance to tailor policies and align API security with your broader security strategy.
Professional services support
Assistance with configuration and protocol tuning to adapt protections as your APIs evolve.
Akamai’s Security Operations Command Center (SOCC) acts as an extension of your SOC:
Detect and triage
Advanced anomaly detection flags suspicious API behavior and prioritizes alerts by risk and impact.
Investigate
API specialists analyze evidence (requests/responses, attacker activity, authentication posture) and map incidents to frameworks like OWASP API Top 10.
Mitigate and recommend
For traffic on Akamai’s platform, analysts can initiate mitigation actions (for example, blocking malicious actors via integrated WAF) and provide prescriptive remediation steps and runbooks to your teams.
Escalate and communicate
Critical incidents are escalated through agreed channels with clear context, severity, and next steps. Escalation management ensures the right stakeholders are engaged quickly.
Post-incident improvement
You receive root-cause analysis, configuration tuning, and preventive recommendations to harden controls and reduce future risk.
Backed by Akamai’s global SOCC, you get round-the-clock access to expert guidance and incident handling. See the service overview on the blog: Akamai Managed Service for API Security.
How it works day to day
Monitor
Advanced detection continuously evaluates API traffic for malicious or high‑risk activity.
Mitigate
Analysts actively hunt for attack patterns and vulnerabilities, investigate events, and initiate mitigations or countermeasures where applicable.
Report
You receive actionable recommendations, incident summaries, and root-cause insights to drive faster resolution.
Prevent
24/7 SOCC guidance helps you stay ahead of emerging threats and strengthen API security posture.
Built on Akamai API Security
The managed service leverages Akamai’s API Security platform to give analysts and your team deep, actionable visibility:
Continuous API discovery and inventory across hosts, methods, paths, and classifications, including exposed data types (for example, PII, credentials, payment data).
Change monitoring for new fields, headers, methods, and data types introduced by development.
Runtime threat detection aligned to OWASP API Top 10, with rich incident evidence such as full request/response context and attacker behavior. Common scenarios include BOLA (Broken Object Level Authorization), missing or weak authentication, and data exfiltration attempts.
Compliance reporting dashboards (for example, OWASP API Top 10, PCI DSS 4.0) showing compliance scores, findings, and trendlines.
DIY: Your team owns 24/7 monitoring, tuning, and incident response — often constrained by staffing and API-specific skills.
Managed: Akamai’s SOCC provides around-the-clock analyst coverage, behavioral threat hunting, and guided response to augment your SOC.
Time to value
DIY: Longer operational ramp for discovery, detections, and playbooks.
Managed: Prebuilt processes, advisory services, and enhanced SLAs accelerate operationalization and reduce MTTR.
Operational load
DIY: You manage alert noise, investigations, and escalations end to end.
Managed: Analysts handle triage, investigation, and mitigation (for traffic on Akamai’s platform), escalating only what matters with clear, actionable guidance.
Continuous improvement
DIY: Post-incident hardening relies on internal cycles.
Managed: Root-cause analysis, policy tuning, and posture recommendations are delivered continuously.
Next steps
Get the details in the Managed Service for API Security product brief.