API Security
Gain full control over your API landscape with deep visibility, continuous monitoring, and advanced behavioral analysis, from legacy endpoints to modern AI workflows.
APIs are the foundation of modern digital services. They connect applications, partners, cloud platforms, and increasingly, AI solutions. But how do you know which APIs are active within your organization? What sensitive data do they expose? And what risks do they pose?
Akamai API Security helps organizations automatically discover APIs, identify risks, and detect attacks before they can cause damage. This not only protects your applications, but also the data and business processes behind them.
Map Your Entire API Landscape
Automatically discover all APIs across your network, including undocumented shadow and zombie APIs. Gain instant visibility into which APIs expose sensitive data and ensure complete governance.
Detect Anomalous Behavior and API Abuse
Use advanced, machine learning-powered behavioral analysis to detect data breaches, malicious bots, and sophisticated business logic attacks.
Proactively Identify Vulnerabilities
Audit your APIs for misconfigurations and vulnerabilities from the OWASP API Security Top 10, based on proven best practices.
Secure the Adoption of AI Workflows
Automatically detect and classify APIs that connect to GenAI models, LLMs, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to prevent shadow integrations.
Smart Behavioral Analysis That Eliminates Blind Spots
Traditional security solutions only inspect the surface of network traffic, allowing sophisticated API abuse and shadow APIs to go undetected. Akamai API Security goes deeper. By continuously analyzing metadata from billions of API calls using advanced behavioral models, the platform detects anomalies with exceptional precision.
The system automatically learns what “normal” traffic looks like for your specific business logic. This enables data breaches, data scraping, and the exploitation of API vulnerabilities to be detected immediately and linked to automated remediation. Because the analysis is performed out of band and uses metadata, you benefit from enterprise-grade protection without any impact on the speed or performance of your applications.
API Security That Scales with Your Organization
Any environment & platform
Akamai API Security is completely vendor-neutral and platform-agnostic. It analyzes API traffic through native integrations with your existing infrastructure and API gateways, or directly through the Akamai CDN, without requiring significant changes to your applications.
Contextual insights & remediation
Get a visual overview of your API traffic flows and the logic behind your business processes. Connect detected threats directly to automated workflows, such as creating a Jira ticket, or forward them to your WAF and SIEM systems for immediate blocking.
Shift-left Security
Integrate security directly into your software development lifecycle (SDLC). Automatically run more than 150 to 200 dynamic tests in your CI/CD pipeline to address vulnerabilities before APIs reach production.
How it works
Akamai API Security continuously collects detailed data about your API traffic through a flexible, non-intrusive architecture. The platform analyzes this data in four clear steps:
Discover
A continuously updated, enterprise-wide inventory of all your APIs is generated, giving you clear visibility into exactly what data your APIs access, including sensitive personal and business information.
Detect
Advanced AI and machine learning algorithms analyze API call behavior, enabling anomalies, data scraping, and account takeover attempts to be detected immediately.
Test
Security scans are automatically integrated into your developers’ testing phase, allowing vulnerabilities to be identified early in the development process.
Respond
Once a risk is detected, you can block attacks and accelerate remediation through integrations with your existing security tools. Optionally, you can also rely on the specialists from the Akamai Managed Security Service team to handle this for you.
Gain Control of Your API Attack Surface
API attacks are among the fastest-growing threats in today’s modern IT environments. Without complete visibility into your API landscape, blind spots can emerge that attackers may exploit to gain access to sensitive data and critical business processes.
With Akamai API Security, you gain the visibility, control, and protection needed to proactively manage API risks and keep your digital environment secure.