Factual Product Summary
Akamai API Security from Akamai focuses on API discovery and behavioral threat detection. It is API security technology used for understanding and protecting application interfaces. Capabilities - API inventory and discovery: Identifies APIs so teams can establish which interfaces are included in their security review. - API behavior analysis: Uses observed API behavior to investigate activity that differs from expected usage. - API posture assessment: Highlights API configuration or exposure issues for further assessment. - Sensitive data visibility: Helps identify where protected information appears in the APIs covered by the platform. - Runtime API attack protection: Protects or inspects live API traffic according to the product's enforcement model. - API authentication risk assessment: Brings authentication and authorization behavior into the API security review. - OWASP API risk coverage: Supports evaluating the API risk classes described in the vendor's documentation. Use and operational context Akamai API Security gives teams a way to establish API visibility and investigate API activity. The evaluation should follow an API from discovery through risk review, including what traffic context is available when authentication or sensitive-data exposure becomes a concern. Deployment and evaluation Deployment: Cloud service / SaaS. Before adoption, review API discovery coverage, traffic collection, authentication context and the enforcement model for live applications. Assign an owner for administration, document required permissions and identify how the product or service will fit the existing operating process. Buyer questions - What is the main purpose? Akamai API Security focuses on understanding and protecting application interfaces. - What should a proof of concept establish? Test the listed capabilities against representative assets and workflows, record useful results and unresolved gaps, and confirm who handles follow-up work. - What should be confirmed before purchase? Ask the vendor which edition or service scope includes the required features, which dependencies must be configured and what licensing or contract terms apply. Pricing has not been verified for this catalog.
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About the Vendor
Akamai offers a portfolio covering assessing suspicious login or account activity, understanding and protecting application interfaces, applying security rules to application requests, controlling communications and inspecting traffic and protecting availability during malicious traffic floods. The entries in this catalog include Account Protector, Akamai API Security, App & API Protector, Guardicore Segmentation and Prolexic. Account Protector focuses on account abuse detection and login risk assessment. Akamai API Security focuses on api discovery and behavioral threat detection. App & API Protector focuses on web application and api attack protection. When reviewing Akamai, compare the named products individually: a platform family, a specific module and a managed service can have different scopes and purchasing requirements. Selection should account for signal collection, risk thresholds, response integration and the effect of decisions on legitimate account holders. Portfolio detail - Account Protector: the catalog lists Account risk analysis, Account takeover protection, Credential abuse detection. - Akamai API Security: the catalog lists API inventory and discovery, API behavior analysis, API posture assessment. - App & API Protector: the catalog lists Web request filtering, OWASP attack coverage, Bot traffic controls. - Guardicore Segmentation: the catalog lists Workload communication segmentation, Network segmentation, Lateral movement controls. - Prolexic: the catalog lists DDoS attack detection, Traffic scrubbing, Attack visibility and reporting. For procurement, map each required capability to a named offering and confirm the edition, dependencies and delivery responsibility with the vendor. Product-level entries below provide the operational context and evaluation questions for that comparison.