Discover and Protect Your APIs
Akamai's Kona Site Defender API Security solution offers comprehensive protection for all your APIs, safeguarding them from the escalating risks of attacks and data theft. By providing full visibility into your API estate through continuous discovery and real-time analysis, Akamai helps you identify vulnerabilities, analyze API behavior, and effectively defend against threats in this rapidly expanding attack surface.
With Akamai's API Security, you can easily discover your entire API inventory, including shadow, zombie, and rogue APIs, through continuous monitoring. This allows you to identify and address API vulnerabilities and misconfigurations that attackers often exploit, including those outlined in the OWASP API Top 10. Additionally, contextual insights provided by Akamai help in mitigating risks such as data leakage, suspicious behavior, malicious bots, and API attacks.
The solution works through a series of crucial steps. It begins with comprehensive API discovery to generate a detailed inventory of your APIs, followed by testing to add security to your CI/CD pipeline without slowing down the process. Automated, machine-learning-fueled detection helps in identifying API vulnerabilities and attacks, and advanced workflows can be created to remediate API issues by integrating with your WAFs, SIEMs, and ITSM tools.
In the event of an API security incident, Akamai's solution provides insights into how such incidents impact your bottom line, reputation, and stress levels. Moreover, the solution aligns with the Gartner Market Guide for API Protection, offering capabilities to stay ahead of emerging threats.
Akamai's API Security features are designed to provide a holistic approach to API protection. By assessing API traffic with a native connection to Akamai CDN, integrating with API gateways, load balancers, or WAFs, and analyzing various types of APIs for vulnerabilities, Akamai ensures a robust defense mechanism. The solution also offers compliance monitoring, machine learning for anomaly detection, real-time API attack prevention, and CI/CD pipeline integration for automated testing against malicious traffic.
If you're considering API security, Akamai's customer success stories with industry leaders like Netskope, Aflac, and DHgate demonstrate the efficacy of the Kona Site Defender API Security solution in keeping thousands of APIs secure and ensuring compliance.
With use cases that emphasize testing APIs before production, gaining an enterprise-wide API inventory, understanding API risk posture, and monitoring API abuse, Akamai's API Security is well-equipped to fortify your digital business against evolving threats. Join webinars to gain insights from Akamai's API security experts and explore resources like infographics, white papers, and blog posts to enhance your API security posture.
To protect your APIs effectively, schedule a demo with Akamai's experts today. Discover the critical capabilities of API Security firsthand and learn how Akamai can help you prevent attacks through hands-on examples, offering comprehensive discovery, monitoring, alerts, easy integration, and much more.
API Security Capabilities and FAQs
If you're wondering about the technical details of Akamai's API Security solution, rest assured that it offers a wide array of features and capabilities. From assessing API traffic and integrating with various tools to monitoring for compliance, identifying sensitive data access, and using machine learning for anomaly detection, Akamai's API Security ensures a robust defense against evolving threats.
Some common FAQs about Akamai's API Security solution include the products needed for its implementation, the differences between API Security and Akamai App & API Protector, API testing capabilities, handling east-west traffic, managing sensitive data, discovering APIs not passing through a CDN, and coverage of the OWASP API Top 10 vulnerabilities.
Akamai's API Security solution is widely recognized for its effectiveness, as evidenced by customer success stories across different industries. By leveraging the power of Akamai's expertise, technology, and proactive approach to API security, organizations can stay at the forefront of API protection and ensure the integrity of their digital operations.