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 form 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 they expose? And what risks they carry?
Akamai API Security helps organizations automatically discover APIs, identify risks, and detect attacks before they cause damage. This ensures you protect not only your applications, but also the underlying data and business processes.
Map your entire API landscape
Automatically discover all APIs in your network, including undocumented ‘shadow’ and ‘zombie’ APIs. Gain immediate insight into which APIs expose sensitive data and ensure complete governance.
Detect anomalous behavior and API abuse
Leverage advanced, machine learning-driven behavioral analysis to detect data breaches, malicious bots, and sophisticated business logic attacks.
Proactively identify vulnerabilities
Audit your APIs for misconfigurations and OWASP API Security Top 10 vulnerabilities based on proven best practices.
Secure the adoption of AI workflows
Automatically detect and classify APIs connecting 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 perimeter of network traffic, leaving sophisticated API abuse and ‘shadow APIs’ unnoticed. Akamai API Security looks deeper. By continuously analyzing metadata from billions of API calls using advanced behavioral models, the platform detects anomalies with extreme precision.
The system automatically learns what ‘normal’ traffic looks like for your specific business logic. As a result, data breaches, data scraping, and the exploitation of API vulnerabilities are instantly recognized and linked to automated remediation. Because the analysis is performed out-of-band and relies on metadata, you enjoy enterprise-grade protection without any impact on the speed and 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, API gateways, or directly via the Akamai CDN, without requiring any intrusive changes to your applications.
Contextual insights & remediation
Get a visual representation of your API traffic flows and the logic behind your business processes. Link 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 execute over 150 to 200 dynamic tests within your CI/CD pipeline to tackle vulnerabilities before APIs ever hit production.
How it operates
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 up-to-date, enterprise-wide inventory of all your APIs is generated. You can see exactly which data your APIs access (such as sensitive personal or corporate data).
Detect
Advanced AI and machine learning algorithms analyze the behavior of API calls. As a result, anomalies, data scraping, and account takeover attempts are detected instantly.
Test
Security scans run automatically during your developers’ testing phase, bringing vulnerabilities to light early in the 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 outsource this to the specialists of the Akamai Managed Security Service team).