API Security Platform

Unified API Security Platform

Seamlessly manage API discovery, risk assessment, detection, and mitigation in one console—eliminating tool sprawl and friction across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.

Unified, flexible, and privacy‑first API security for complete protection everywhere

Imperva API Security delivers unified protection across environments, with built-in detection and response for deprecated, unauthenticated, and BOLA-prone APIs—stopping business logic abuse and API threats in real time.

Discover and mitigate vulnerable APIs: Imperva provides continuous discovery of all public, private, and shadow APIs, ensuring no gaps in your API landscape. By thoroughly classifying and assessing risk, we protect your entire API inventory and mitigate vulnerabilities, safeguarding even the most hidden and vulnerable endpoints from potential threats.
Business‑logic threat protection: Imperva’s unified API platform adds Business‑Logic Threat Protection to expose BOLA risks before exploitation. Real‑time detection uses hybrid behavioral and rule‑based engines to score anomalies and flag risky endpoints instantly. Automated response via Cloud WAF and WAF Gateway enforces inline mitigation, integrating with security automation.
Secure APIs anywhere: Protect your APIs wherever they're deployed—whether behind a cloud WAF, on-premise, in hybrid environments, or across east-west and north-south traffic. Imperva API Security ensures robust protection for your APIs, no matter the setup or location of your applications.
Extend protection through integration: Seamlessly integrating with your WAF, Imperva extends protection beyond APIs to your entire application architecture. This unified approach delivers comprehensive, layered security that’s unmatched in the industry.

How API Security works

Continuous API discovery and classification

Once activated, Imperva API Security continuously discovers and monitors APIs across environments, including shadow APIs. It tracks changes, detects design flaws, and identifies vulnerabilities to prevent API attacks.

API risk assessment

Imperva API Security conducts ongoing risk assessments to identify design flaws and vulnerabilities associated with the OWASP API Security Top 10. This capability empowers organizations to proactively detect and remediate security gaps, ensuring robust protection for their APIs and minimizing potential risks.

Shift Left with Imperva API Testing

Imperva’s API Security Testing scans an uploaded API Specification file to identify posture gaps, design flaws, and configuration weaknesses. It pinpoints risky endpoints, classifies each issue by severity, and provides clear, developer-ready fixes that can be applied immediately. By addressing vulnerabilities early in the lifecycle, a shift-left approach teams improve API quality, reduce runtime defects, and streamline collaboration between developers and security.

Integration to mitigate bot attacks

Imperva API Security and Advanced Bot Protection work together to safeguard APIs from automated threats. They provide visibility into sensitive APIs, detect bot attacks, and mitigate risks through tailored Imperva Advanced Bot Protection policies, ensuring robust protection for your business logic against abuse from automated threats.

Flexible API Security management and deployment options

Imperva API Security offers flexible management options for diverse environments. Choose cloud-managed for external cloud integration or self-managed for full control without integration with external cloud services. Deployment options include agent-based or agentless setups, supporting cloud WAF, microservices, encrypted applications, and network-layer monitoring, ensuring comprehensive protection for all API traffic across any architecture.

Enhanced security through seamless integrations

Imperva API Security integrates seamlessly with industry-leading tools like Kong, Mulesoft, Azure APIM, Apigee, and F5, simplifying deployment and management. It ensures thorough API traffic inspection across all environments while enhancing flexibility and control through API gateways, proxies, and load balancers, supporting both encrypted applications and microservices.

BOLA Detection & Response in Action

Imperva’s unified API security platform—spanning discovery, risk assessment, and mitigation—now features real‑time BOLA Detection & Response. It automatically discovers every public, private, and shadow API, profiles traffic to establish behavioral baselines, then uses ML‑driven analysis to spot deviations and instantly block Broken Object Level Authorization exploits alongside OWASP API Top Ten threats—delivering seamless, end‑to‑end protection against evolving API risks.

API Security Platform

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