Essential Features Every Buyer Must Know
Why This Guide Matters?
APIs power today’s digital businesses, but they also open new attack fronts. Before you shortlist vendors, arm yourself with the neutral checklist and practical insights that separate hype from reality.
What You’ll Discover?
- Vendor‑Agnostic Evaluation: A concise, feature‑by‑feature checklist so you know exactly what to demand.
- Core Protection Capabilities: Deep dives into Continuous Discovery, BOLA Detection & Response, Bot Mitigation, and CI/CD
- Integration - plus tips on spotting gaps.
- Proven Outcomes: Real customer success metrics demonstrating ROI - from fraud prevention to bot‑traffic slashing.
- Deployment & Architecture Guidance: Cloud, on‑prem, and hybrid models - choose the right fit for your compliance, performance, and operational needs.
- Maturity Roadmap: A six‑stage blueprint to evolve your API security program from basic visibility to full automation.
Who Should Download?
- CISOs and security leaders evaluating API protection
- DevSecOps teams embedding security into fast‑moving pipelines
- Architects tasked with securing microservices, partner integrations, and real‑time channels
Don’t let hidden endpoints or manual tool sprawl leave you exposed. Download the Imperva API Security Buyer’s Guide and make your next API security investment with confidence.
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.
How API Security works
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.
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