API Security Tools are specialized software solutions designed to protect Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) from security threats and vulnerabilities. APIs are integral to modern applications, allowing different systems, services, and applications to communicate and share data.
Discover the top 7 best API Security Tools
Salt
Salt Security is the only AI-infused API Security Solution for the entire API lifecycle – from API discovery to posture management to threat protection.
- Salt provides intelligent aggregation and consolidation of your API inventory, with insights into the security posture of your APIs
- Salt tracks users over days, weeks, and months to understand, identify, and prevent today’s drawn-out API attacks
- Salt leverages insights from bad actors’ minor successes in runtime to craft remediation insights
- Collect two-way API data, including requests, responses, and numerous behavioral attributes, studying your API activity over extended periods
Blackduck
Black Duck offers tools and solutions to help your security and development teams achieve an effective API security testing program.
- Automatically detect endpoints exposed by your application and perform continuous testing
- Automatically test the entire attack surface
- Pinpoint flaws in code and data with visual dataflow map
- Build API security controls and policy
Pynt
Pynt’s dynamic API security testing product enables developers and testers to run security tests and discover and mitigate security vulnerabilities throughout the development lifecycle.
- Context aware testing, alerting pre-production
- Zero-false positives, alerts on proven threats only
- Identifying API risks and gaps from dev to prod, including full API discovery and classification
- Fast and accurate results within minutes
- Shift left, frictionless testing integrated into your CI/CD Environment
Postman
Postman stands out as the best API platform today, thanks to its unmatched features such as workspaces, built-in security and governance, automated testing, and seamless integrations with leading cloud providers and source code management tools.
- Poor security hygiene
- Authentication and authorization vulnerabilities
- Lack of read and write granularity
- Failure to implement quotas and throttling
- Improperly set or missing HTTP headers
- Failure to perform input validation, sanitization, and encoding at the method level
- Inaccurate inventory and documentation
- Inadequate logging and monitoring practices
Akamai
Akamai API Security enables organizations to gain full visibility into their entire API estate with continuous detection and real-time analysis.
- Find and inventory all your APIs – including shadow, zombie, and rogue APIs – with continuous discovery and monitoring
- Audit for the API vulnerabilities and misconfigurations that attackers target, including all the OWASP API Top 10
- Use contextual insights to identify risks such as data leakage, suspicious behavior, malicious bots, and API attacks
Acunetix
Acunetix is an end-to-end web security scanner that offers a 360 view of an organization’s security. Allowing you to take control of the security of all you web applications, web services, and APIs to ensure long-term protection. Acunetix’s scanning engine is globally known and trusted for its unbeatable speed and precision.
- Cover your bases with zero-configuration set up, API management system integration, and network API discovery
- Combining API discovery with Invicti’s best-in-class security solutions helps you shrink your tech stack and streamline security
- With an accurate and reliable API discovery and testing engine at your fingertips, you can secure more of your threat landscape than before
Akto
Akto is the world’s best Open Source API security platform with the largest API Security test library that’s growing everyday.
- API Discovery
- Sensitive Data and PII Exposure
- API Security Testing in CI/CD
- Continuous API Security Posture Management
- Deep Authentication & Authorization Testing
- Monitor new APIs or changes in APIs
- Shift Left API Security Platform in DevSecOps
- Largest API Security Test Library Database