API Security Tools
Compare the best API security tools. Protect your APIs with discovery, testing, runtime protection, and compliance monitoring.
Upwind has built CNAPP from the ground-up around runtime insights provided from a network focused endpoint agent. They provide unique features like API security, alongside vulnerability prioritization and scanning, and the more generic CNAPP feature sets.
The core of Sweet Security is powerful incident detection and response capabilities for cloud environments. They have since created a larger CNAPP platform expanding more into vulnerability management, posture, and identity capabilities
Operant has focused their application defense solution on securing AI workloads, providing features like runtime detection and redaction for production applications. They excel at securing Kubernetes workloads, and are especially strong at network detections.
Akto has created an open source flavored approach to next generation DAST and API security with features like looking at log data for API discovery, sensitive data flows, and customized scanning. A uniquely helpful feature is the ability to easily edit and tweak tests from the UI.
Acquired by Harness. Traceable has built some amazing API security capabilities thanks to starting with tracing as their beginning. They do a great job patching information together in a way that makes it relevant for investigations
Impart has everything you'd want in an API security platform - they provide discovery, testing, and protection all in a single platform based on eBPF for network detection and prevention. They are more on the runtime side of API security.
Levo does a ton of neat stuff with only a lightweight ebpf agent. They create full API schemas which can be real sources of truth, detect version changes, run DAST testing, and look for missing auth tokens. This covers areas where I most commonly see misconfigurations lead to actual exploits - accidental configs of public APIs without authentication. They are more on the testing side of API security.
AppSentinels is a robust runtime oriented API security platform that builds robust service mappings and has very good detection and response features. It's a very competitive offering to those like NoName, Salt, and Traceable.