API Security

API security reimagined. Every API discovered at the code. Matched to runtime. AutoFixed before it ships.

Runtime Alliances

Unmonitored API sprawl

Same finding: an endpoint missing authorization. Opposite risk reality. Both verdicts are possible only with code-to-runtime context in the Software Graph. Traffic-only tools never see the first. Code-only tools can't rank either.

Consumers exposed through an unpatched, unvalidated API

Every API risk tied to its code owner and root cause. Hours of investigation collapse to seconds, and guardrails stop weaknesses at the pull request, before deployment.

How API Security works

Fix at the source

Apiiro and Akamai connect code-based API security with runtime traffic intelligence in one seamless integration: runtime findings correlated to root cause, coverage gaps surfaced, business-critical API risks prioritized.

Runtime API tools see traffic. Guardian Agent sees the complete picture. It reasons over your Software Graph and Risk Graph like an AppSec engineer: discovers every API in code, matches runtime traffic to the exact controller line, and validates real business risk and exposure.

Every undiscovered API is an unguarded door. Apiiro inventories all of them at the source, continuously, with runtime context.

The biggest breaches of the past decade walked in through APIs: unpatched, unauthenticated, or simply forgotten. AI-driven development is multiplying the doors.

Guardian Agent

Runtime tools match a finding to a host or repository at best. Who owns the fix, and which line of code caused it, stays a manual investigation.

Of all breaches involve a third party, doubled from 15% in one year

Detect & Fix

Guardian Agent

Runtime APIs matched to the exact controller line and code owner

Complete API inventory

Too late to prevent

Runtime-only API security was built for the pre-AI age

Apiiro endpoint matching

API security shifts from reactive traffic monitoring to proactive risk validation in code. Three outcomes follow.

What API Security delivers

No code context

https://www.verizon.com/business/resources/reports/dbir/

Focus on real risk

AI coding agents generate, modify, and deploy APIs faster than security teams can track. Gartner warns of rogue and zombie APIs that are undeclared or forgotten yet still expose data. Watching production traffic answers too late. Four systemic failures follow.

Why runtime tools can't fix it: they see suspicious traffic on a public route, but not who owns it or which line causes it. Apiiro matches the traffic to the exact controller, confirms the missing authorization and PII flow, escalates to Critical, and assigns the code owner with the fix.

https://apiiro.com/blog/apiiro-achieves-true-runtime-api-endpoint-matching/

Complete code-to-runtime API security with Akamai

https://republicans-oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Equifax-Report.pdf

AI-generated APIs bypass security oversight entirely. The attack surface expands with every prompt, undocumented and untracked.

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Deep Code Analysis

Clubhouse leak, 2021

Every API, data model, and sensitive data flow inventoried directly from code, refreshed on every commit. Rogue, zombie, and shadow APIs surfaced before they expose data.

Business logic flaws and missing authorization evade WAFs and gateways. Risks found in production cost the most to fix and have already been exposed.

API Security

Rogue and zombie APIs

APIs are the front door attackers try first

Runtime traffic matched to the exact API controller in code, down to the file and line. Internet exposure, gateway configuration, and PII, PHI, and PCI handling decide priority.

User records scraped through a public API and sold online

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Explore the Data Fabric that powers it →

Verizon DBIR 2025

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https://cybernews.com/security/clubhouse-data-leak-1-3-million-user-records-leaked-for-free-online/

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Code-to-Runtime

API security reimagined. Every API discovered at the code. Matched to runtime. AutoFixed before it ships and after - at the moment it becomes a risk.

Five capabilities secure your API estate from the first line of code to live production traffic: automated, continuous, at enterprise scale.

Escalated: internet exposed, exposing PII uses OSS with RCE

Deprioritized: dark route, no exposure

Why code-only tools flag it: the pattern matches, so the alert fires at the same severity. The Software Graph proves no gateway routes to it, the flag is off, and no traffic has ever reached it. Apiiro deprioritizes it with evidence, and your team works the export API instead.

Undeclared endpoints and forgotten versions keep serving data long after anyone remembers they exist. Traffic monitoring only sees what attackers already found.

Equifax breach report, 2017

Endpoint Matching

One API weakness. Two verdicts.

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