Akamai API Security is a comprehensive solution designed to protect APIs throughout their entire lifecycle, from development to production. It offers continuous discovery, testing, analytics, and response capabilities, ensuring robust security for APIs across diverse environments, including multi-cloud, multi-CDN, and hybrid infrastructures. This platform-agnostic solution is tailored for large, distributed enterprises, providing visibility and protection for both north–south and east–west API traffic. Key Features and Functionality: - API Discovery and Inventory: Automatically identifies and catalogs all APIs, including shadow and zombie APIs, as well as integrations with AI services like LLMs and GenAI models. - Risk Assessment and Posture Management: Evaluates APIs against the OWASP API Security Top 10 risks, detects misconfigurations, and identifies data exposure, particularly concerning sensitive information such as Personally Identifiable Information (PII). - Automated Security Testing: Integrates into CI/CD pipelines to perform over 200 dynamic tests that simulate malicious traffic and business logic abuse, facilitating a shift-left approach to security. - Runtime Protection and Anomaly Detection: Monitors API traffic in real-time to detect anomalies, data leakage, bot activity, scraping, account takeovers (ATO), and API-layer DDoS attacks. - Enterprise-Scale Operations: Supports deployment across SaaS, hybrid, and on-premises environments, including multi-CDN and multi-gateway architectures, ensuring scalability and flexibility. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Akamai API Security addresses the critical need for comprehensive API protection in today's digital landscape, where APIs are integral to business operations but also expand the attack surface. By providing continuous discovery, rigorous testing, and real-time monitoring, it enables organizations to identify vulnerabilities, enforce compliance, and respond swiftly to threats. This proactive approach mitigates risks associated with API abuse, data breaches, and compliance violations, thereby safeguarding sensitive data and maintaining business continuity.