- Discover APIs across traffic, code, specs, gateways, cloud, and external exposure points, including shadow, zombie, unmanaged, MCP, and AI-linked APIs
- Monitor compliance alignment across standards such as OWASP API, PCI DSS, HIPAA, ISO 27001, GDPR, HITRUST, and NIST
- Visualize API behavior, infrastructure context, traffic flows, authentication patterns, and sensitive data exposure
- Identify and tag APIs connected to GenAI applications, LLM services, AI workflows, and MCP servers to govern AI-era exposure
- Analyze runtime behavior to detect abnormal activity, business logic abuse, sensitive data exposure, data scraping, tampering, and potential attacks
- Route findings into SIEM, ITSM, ticketing, CMDB, WAAP, gateway, and developer workflows
- Assess API posture against security best practices, OWASP API risks, internal policies, and compliance frameworks
- Map API findings to owners, repositories, file paths, and last committers (where available) to accelerate remediation
- Integrate API security testing into CI/CD pipelines and run 200+ tests that simulate malicious traffic before release
Govern and protect every API, from code to runtime
Gain continuous visibility into APIs across traffic, code, and documentation, including APIs connected to GenAI applications, LLM services, and MCP servers. Identify vulnerabilities, analyze behavior, test APIs before production, and prioritize remediation with the context teams need to reduce risk.
Find and reduce API risk before it impacts your business
See How API Security Works Across the Full Lifecycle
Key capabilities for modern API security solutions
Customer Stories
Use cases for AI-era API security
Discover, test, govern, and monitor APIs before AI-accelerated API threats become business impact.
Secure AI-linked APIs
AI applications, LLM services, and agentic workflows depend on APIs to access data, trigger actions, and connect to enterprise systems.
With Akamai API Security, teams can:
- Discover APIs connected to GenAI apps, LLM services, and MCP servers
- Identify shadow and unmanaged AI-linked APIs
- Understand what data those APIs expose
- Analyze behavior for signs of misuse or abuse
- Strengthen governance as AI adoption scales
Reduce visibility gaps across the APIs powering AI-driven applications and workflows.
Test APIs before release
API testing helps teams find vulnerabilities before APIs reach production. Akamai API Security integrates with CI/CD workflows and runs 200+ dynamic tests that simulate malicious traffic, including tests aligned to the OWASP API Security Top 10.
Teams can run tests before release, validate fixes, and reduce production exposure without relying on manual testing alone.
Get an enterprise-wide inventory of your APIs
API inventories quickly become outdated when teams rely only on gateways, documentation, or periodic audits.
Akamai API Security continuously discovers APIs across runtime traffic, code repositories, API documentation, gateways, cloud environments, and external exposure points.
Use it to identify:
- Active and unmanaged APIs
- Shadow, zombie, and deprecated APIs
- Duplicated or poorly documented APIs
- AI-linked APIs and MCPs
Build a more accurate view of your API estate so teams can find risk faster and govern APIs with greater confidence.
Govern posture and compliance
API alerts alone do not create governance. Akamai API Security helps teams define API security best practices as policies and measure APIs against them.
Use it to:
- Map findings to OWASP API, PCI DSS, HIPAA, ISO 27001, GDPR, HITRUST, and NIST
- Track posture gaps and remediation progress
- Monitor API risk trends over time
- Support audit, regulatory, cyber insurance, and executive risk conversations
Turn API findings into a measurable governance program, not just another queue of alerts.
Monitor API abuse
API attacks often look like legitimate usage. Attackers may use valid endpoints, credentials, or normal-looking workflows to exploit authorization gaps, excessive data exposure, business logic flaws, partner misuse, scraping, tampering, or resource exhaustion.
Akamai API Security helps teams:
- Analyze runtime behavior for suspicious patterns
- Detect misuse, abuse, and abnormal API activity
- Add API-specific context to investigations
- Route findings into existing response workflows
Investigate faster, prioritize risk, and reduce the impact of API abuse.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
App & API Protector is Akamai’s WAAP solution for inline protection at the edge, including WAF, API, bot, and DDoS protections for traffic protected through Akamai. Akamai API Security is a dedicated API security solution that provides deeper API discovery, posture management, behavioral analysis, active testing, compliance mapping, and remediation context across traffic, code, specifications, and connected infrastructure.
When used together, App & API Protector provides inline enforcement for relevant traffic and API Security provides the dedicated system of record for API risk across the lifecycle.
Yes, our API testing solution is purpose-built to provide comprehensive coverage of API-specific vulnerabilities. Our solution can help you shift left and bake API security testing into every phase of development.
Akamai API Security can analyze API traffic from supported north-south and east-west traffic sources, depending on how traffic is connected. This helps teams monitor APIs across cloud, hybrid, and internal environments for anomalous behavior and risk.
Akamai API Security helps identify APIs that access, process, or return sensitive data such as PII, internal documentation, or intellectual property. Teams can use this context to prioritize risk, strengthen governance, and focus remediation on APIs that could create the greatest business or compliance impact.
API Security is platform-agnostic and works in all environments — SaaS, hybrid, and on-prem — including those that are complex and have multiple CDNs, WAFs, and gateways, and are widely distributed APIs across the enterprise (both north-south and east-west). API Security provides enterprise-wide visibility into your API behavior, regardless of where the APIs are discovered.
Akamai API Security features a native connector that enables you to seamlessly send a copy of your Akamai Cloud traffic to Akamai API Security for analysis. This integration is built directly into both API Security and Akamai Cloud, eliminating latency and reducing risk. The native connector automatically discovers and tracks APIs across Akamai-managed environments, helps detect vulnerabilities, and allows customers to block attackers at the edge.
API Security covers all the OWASP Top 10 API Security Risks.
Akamai API Security helps organizations discover and govern APIs connected to GenAI applications, LLM services, AI workflows, and MCP servers. It identifies shadow or unmanaged AI-linked APIs, analyzes behavior for signs of misuse or abuse, and helps teams understand what sensitive data those APIs may expose.
As AI adoption grows, attackers can use frontier LLMs and agents to accelerate API reconnaissance, business logic probing, and exploit variation. Akamai API Security helps teams prepare for these AI-accelerated API threats by combining multisource discovery, posture management, active testing, runtime behavior analysis, and remediation context.
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Meet 1:1 with an Akamai expert for a tailored walk-through of how API Security can protect your unique environment.
Explore hands-on examples of key capabilities that help prevent attacks, including:
- Discovery and monitoring: Instantly detect and respond to threats with our 24/7 monitoring system
- Alerts: Investigate how posture and runtime alerts are handled
- Easy integration: Seamlessly integrate with your existing tech stack, no matter the complexity
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