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What are API Protection?

Gartner defines API protection products as a category of specialized stand-alone security products focusing on protecting APIs from exploits, abuse and access violations, and assisting in remediating API exposures. These products offer features such as API discovery, API security testing, API posture management and runtime protection utilizing behavioral analysis. They should provide coverage for the internal- and external-facing APIs, and third-party APIs that organizations may consume. API protection products are delivered as cloud-based and on-premises solutions. Deployment can be offered in-line by intercepting ingress/egress API calls or out-of-band by deploying agents on application workloads and/or scanning code repositories.

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Akamai API Security

By Akamai

4.6
(123 Ratings)

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences – helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. Akamai Connected Cloud, a massively distributed edge and cloud platform, puts apps and experiences closer to users and keeps threats farther away.

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Imperva API Security

By Thales Group (Imperva)

4.6
(87 Ratings)

Imperva is a cybersecurity firm that assists organizations in safeguarding critical applications, APIs, and data across various scales and locations. It adopts a comprehensive approach that amalgamates edge, application security, and data security to offer protection to businesses at all levels of their digital journey. Imperva Threat Research and the worldwide intelligence community contribute to Imperva's knowledge of the evolving threat landscape. This understanding allows incorporation of the most recent security, privacy, and compliance expertise into the offered solutions.

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Salt Security API Protection Platform

By Salt Security

4.6
(43 Ratings)

Salt Security is a provider of API security solutions. The company's API Protection Platform uses cloud-scale big data and ML/AI technologies to detect and block API attacks, offering security across all stages of the API lifecycle. Salt's platform offers real-time analysis and continuous insights for API discovery, attack prevention, and integrating security practices early in the development process. The unique API Context Engine (ACE) part of the system facilitates pre-production design analysis, API discovery, API attack mitigation, and remediation insights.

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Cequence Unified API Protection Platform

By Cequence Security

4.7
(41 Ratings)

Cequence Security specializes in API security and bot management, delivering Unified API Protection (UAP) uniting discovery, compliance, and protection across all internal and external APIs to defend against attacks, targeted abuse, and fraud. Requiring less than 15 minutes to onboard an API without requiring any instrumentation, SDK, or JavaScript integration, the flexible deployment model supports SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid installations. Cequence solutions scale to handle the most demanding Fortune and Global 2000 organizations, securing more than 8 billion daily API calls and protecting more than 3 billion user accounts.

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Cloudflare API Gateway

By Cloudflare

4.3
(38 Ratings)

Cloudflare, is a provider of WAAP, SASE, SSE, SD-WAN, CDN, and Edge Developer services. Cloudflare empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare delivers all services from a single intelligent global network platform, providing customers with a unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business.

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Traceable API Security Platform

By Harness

4.6
(28 Ratings)

Harness is a startup focused on the software delivery market with the goal of revolutionizing the industry. Its primary offering is an intelligent software delivery platform which enhances the efficiency of engineers by offering improved delivery speed and quality. The core components of the Harness Software Delivery Platform encompass Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Feature Flags, Cloud Cost Management, Service Reliability Management, Security Testing Orchestration, and Chaos Engineering. This platform is constructed to expedite business's cloud campaigns and the incorporation of containers and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and Amazon ECS.

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Akto API Security Platform

By Akto

4.8
(24 Ratings)

Akto is the Industry-first Agentic AI Security platform for AI Security teams that helps in Discovery, red teaming and enforcing guardrails on AI agents, MCPs and GenAI apps. 100+ Modern AI Security teams globally trust Akto for:

- MCP Security

- AI Agent Security

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42Crunch API Security Platform

By 42Crunch

4.3
(23 Ratings)

The 42Crunch API security platform, is deployed by Fortune 500 firms and used by over 1.6 million developers globally. We help teams build better and more secure APIs, through good API security governance.

With 42Crunch, companies leverage the combined resources of their security and development teams to build more secure APIs, avoid the costly impact of API breaches by identifying and remediating vulnerabilities at design time and accelerate the time to market of API-driven services.

The 42 API security platform automates API security testing and runtime protection to enable companies fix API vulnerabilities at design time and block attacks at runtime. Risk assessment, risk scoring and security quality testing tools help developers build secure APIs and security teams retain governance and policy enforcement throughout the API lifecycle.

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Synopsys API Scanner (Legacy)

By Black Duck

4.1
(18 Ratings)

Black Duck builds trust in software by enabling organizations to manage application security, quality, and compliance risks at the speed their business demands. Black Duck solutions help developers to secure code as fast as they write it; development and DevSecOps teams to automate testing within development pipelines without compromising velocity; and security teams to proactively manage risk and focus remediation efforts on what matters most. With Black Duck, organizations can transform the way they build and deliver software, aligning people, processes, and technology to intelligently address software risks across their portfolio and at all stages of the application lifecycle.

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APISec

By APISec

4.3
(15 Ratings)

APIsec is a security testing platform primarily focused on identifying severe API vulnerabilities that could result in data breaches. Utilizing an automated system, APIsec creates and operates thousands of specific attack playbooks, tailored to each distinct API. This enables the detection of security weaknesses and data logic errors before they reach the production stage. The platform employs a zero-touch deployment model, eliminating the need for source code access, agents, or inline mechanisms. Functioning at the pace of DevOps, APIsec notifies security personnel and developers of new vulnerabilities in the Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline for ongoing validation of all API code.

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AppSentinels Platform

By AppSentinels

4.4
(8 Ratings)

AppSentinels is a comprehensive full life-cycle API Security platform. We help build secure APIs and protect applications against business logic API attacks. The platform is deployed quickly, providing immediate API security and protection. The platform offers deep insights into application behavior, user journeys, and business logic workflows.

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Levo.ai

By Levo

4.8
(8 Ratings)

Levo.ai is an API Security Platform that automatically discovers, documents, tests, and monitors APIs, aligning with OWASP and compliance frameworks. Levo tackles the root cause of security incidents like insecure code by integrating visibility and security testing early in the SDLC.

1. Comprehensive API Discovery – Uncovers internal, third-party, zombie, open-source, and partner APIs without code or configuration changes.

2. Detailed API Documentation & Sensitive Data Classification – Provides in-depth API insights with identity context, mapping sensitive data flows across services.

3. Automated Security Testing & AuthN/AuthZ Validation – Identifies vulnerabilities (OWASP API Top 10, MITRE, authorization bypass, object-level misconfigurations) with zero manual effort.

4. Real-time Security Monitoring & Reporting – Tracks API traffic, flags deviations, and generates compliance-ready reports with custom policies.

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Data Theorem API Secure

By Data Theorem

4.6
(7 Ratings)

Data Theorem focuses on preventing application security (AppSec) data breaches. The main areas of specialty include API Security, Web Security, Mobile Security, and Cloud Security. This is accomplished through the provision of static application security testing (SAST), dynamic application security testing (DAST), and runtime application self-protection (RASP). These services extend to various types of APIs, mobile applications, web applications, and cloud applications. The inventory, security testing, and active protection offered by Data Theorem across its range of products ensure robust defenses against data breaches. The headquarters of Data Theorem is located in Palo Alto, CA, with other offices spread across multiple cities internationally.

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Orca Security

By Orca Security

4.4
(5 Ratings)

Designed for organizations operating in the cloud who need complete, centralized visibility of their entire cloud estate and want more time and resources dedicated to remediating the actual risks that matter, Orca Security is an agentless cloud Security Platform that provides security teams with 100% coverage their entire cloud environment.

Instead of layering multiple siloed tools together or deploying cumbersome agents, Orca combines two revolutionary approaches - SideScanning, that enables frictionless and complete coverage without the need to maintain agents, and the Unified Data Model, that allows centralized contextual analysis of your entire cloud estate. Together, Orca has created the most comprehensive cloud security platform available on the marketplace.

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Reblaze

By Link11

5
(4 Ratings)

Link11, headquartered in Germany, maintains global locations, including in Europe, North America and Asia. Its cloud based IT security services help customers avoid business disruption and strengthen the cyber resilience of their IT networks and critical applications.

The product portfolio includes Network Security, Web Application & API Protection and Application Performance solutions with comprehensive protection for diverse industries. The services range from complete Network DDoS protection to an all-in-one WAAP solution, providing Web Application Firewall, Web DDoS Protection, Bot Management (including ATO), API Protection and Secure CDN & DNS.

The high-performance, multi-terabit global network is monitored 24/7 by the Link11 Security Operations Center.

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Threatspy

By Secure Blink

4.5
(3 Ratings)

At Secure Blink, we are dedicated to fortifying the digital landscape against ever-evolving cyber threats. Specializing in cutting-edge solutions for Web Application and API Security, we focus on innovation and excellence to protect your digital assets.

Our flagship SaaS product, Threatspy, is a developer-first, AI-powered AppSec management platform. Threatspy empowers developers and security teams to proactively identify and mitigate both known and unknown vulnerabilities in applications and APIs through automated detection, prioritization, and remediation processes. By leveraging Threatspy, businesses can enhance their security posture, reduce risk, and ensure the resilience of their digital infrastructure.

Threatspy supports both modern and legacy tech stacks, offering flexible deployment options across cloud-native and multi-cloud environments.

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ZeroThreat

By ZeroThreat

4.3
(3 Ratings)
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Pynt

By Pynt

4.5
(2 Ratings)

Pynt is a company that provides an automated API security testing solution. This system is designed to help companies eliminate application security risks early in the development lifecycle. The focus is on integrating API security into the development process, supporting a harmonious relationship between Development and Security. Pynt's solution lets security owners have visibility and control to meet compliance goals and is designed to secure company assets before they're released into production. Furthermore, Pynt aims to integrate API security into the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to reduce costs and pressure. It also gives developers and testers the ability to catch vulnerabilities early on, ensuring a balance of speed and safety. Pynt's technology can be seamlessly incorporated into Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. It allows for automated API security checks, monitoring history, and supports the optimization of the DevOps journey. The company offers dynamic API security assessments across all API protocols, ensuring accurate and false-positive free results.

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Astra

By Astra Security

4
(1 Rating)

Astra Pentest is comprehensive platform featuring an automated vulnerability scanner, manual pentest capabilities, and an all-purpose vulnerability management dashboard that helps you streamline every step of the pentest process - from detection and prioritizations of vulnerabilities to collaborative remediation. Our Pentest platform emulates hackers behavior to find critical vulnerabilities in your application Web App, Mobile App, SaaS, APIs, Cloud Infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP), Network Devices (Firewall, Router, Server, Switch, Printer, Camera, etc), Blockchain/Smart Contract, and more proactively.

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Beagle Security

By Beagle Security

4
(1 Rating)

Beagle Security is a SaaS-based automated penetration testing solution that helps you to identify vulnerabilities on your web applications, public APIs & GraphQL endpoints before hackers exploit them.

Beagle Security analyzes your web application by applying several penetration testing procedures to understand how deep it can be hacked. A detailed, contextual report is provided explaining the open vulnerabilities (categorized by critical, high, medium, low, informational) and how they can be addressed effectively. With native integrations connecting all major DevOps pipeline tools, you can reduce the cost and complexity associated with managing web application security by adopting a DevSecOps culture.

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Features of API Protection

Updated October 2025

Mandatory Features:

  • Provide manual/automated API security testing using techniques such as static and dynamic API security testing.

  • Provide API posture management by assessing API security posture and highlighting vulnerabilities, identifying misconfigurations and unsecured implementations within APIs or underlying API infrastructure, and providing remediation guidance.

  • Offer runtime threat detection and protection, identifying runtime threats and malicious or anomalous API behavior, and alerting on or blocking such behavior.

  • Perform continuous API discovery and inventorying, identifying different types of APIs, including shadow and rogue APIs.

Peer Lessons Learned for API Protection

Published November 2024

These lessons focuses on the responses to the questions: “If you could start over, what would your organization do differently?” and “What one piece of advice would you give other prospective customers?”

Peer Lessons Learned for API ProtectionLessons learned by your peers shared on Gartner Peer Insights for API ProtectionPeer Lessons Learned for API ProtectionLesson 1LESSON1Evaluate API Protection Needs and Align WithKey Stakeholders for a Broader PerspectiveLesson 2LESSON2Conduct Thorough Vendor Evaluation to EnsureLong-Term Security and Operational EfficiencyLesson 3LESSON3Plan the Implementation and CreateProfessional Documentation to AvoidMisconfigurationsLesson 4LESSON4Prioritize Deployment Specifics and EarlyIntegration for Optimal API ProtectionLesson 5LESSON5Emphasize Training and Internal/VendorSupport for Maximum API Protection ProductUtilizationn = 118Source: Reviews (118) submitted to Gartner Peer InsightsID: 5923375Gartner ®
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