API Security

Imperva API Security provides robust protection against API attacks and business logic abuse, seamlessly integrating with WAF and Bot Protection for comprehensive coverage.

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Comprehensive protection for all your APIs

Imperva API Security protects your APIs from attacks and vulnerabilities, ensuring security across environments. Safeguard all APIs from API attacks and business logic abuse.

  • Discover and mitigate vulnerable APIs
    Imperva provides continuous discovery of all public, private, and shadow APIs, ensuring no gaps in your API landscape.
  • 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.
  • Extend protection through integration
    Seamlessly integrating with your WAF, Imperva extends protection beyond APIs to your entire application architecture.

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What is API Security

Thales Imperva API Security provides continuous protection of all APIs using deep discovery and classification to detect all public, private and shadow APIs. It also protects against business logic attacks and many more of the OWASP API Top Ten threats. The easy-to-deploy solution empowers security teams to implement a positive API security model.

The KuppingerCole Leadership Compass: API Security and Management

Imperva has been named an Overall leader and a leader in the Product, Innovation and Market categories in the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass: API Security and Management.

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How API Security works

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    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    Having API security, I think from my perspective, is a safety blanket in a way. To know, oh yeah, if something does come up, we have an alert for it—we’ll deal with it."
    Lindbergh Caldeira Head of Cybersecurity Operations SA Power Networks

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