Akamai API Security (formerly Noname Security) provides comprehensive API discovery, posture management, and threat protection for organizations across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. The platform continuously discovers and monitors all APIs, identifies vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, detects and responds to API threats in real time, and provides pre-production security testing integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
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Run: Capabilities Using Naftiko
- API Discovery, API Security, Cloud Security, Posture Management, Runtime Protection, Threat Protection
- Created: 2026-03-26
- Modified: 2026-04-19
Akamai API Security provides end-to-end API protection including discovery, posture management, runtime protection, and active testing.
Human URL: https://www.akamai.com/products/api-security
- API Discovery, API Security, Runtime Protection, Threat Protection
Akamai provides a comprehensive set of REST APIs for managing and configuring their platform services using EdgeGrid authentication.
Human URL: https://techdocs.akamai.com/home/page/products-tools-a-z
- Configuration, EdgeGrid, Platform API, REST API
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| API Discovery | Automatically discovers all APIs including shadow, zombie, GenAI, LLM, and MCP server APIs across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. |
| Posture Management | Audits APIs for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations including the full OWASP API Top 10, generating posture findings from runtime incidents. |
| Runtime Protection | Uses contextual insights to detect and block API threats including business logic abuse, credential attacks, data scraping, and malicious bots in real time. |
| CI/CD Security Testing | Runs 200+ dynamic security tests simulating OWASP API Top 10 attacks integrated into CI/CD pipelines without sacrificing development speed. |
| GitHub Integration | Automatically scans GitHub repositories for OpenAPI specs and adds them to the API library for security analysis and posture assessment. |
| App and API Protector Integration | Direct integration with Akamai App and API Protector for blocking API threats detected at runtime. |
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Shadow API Discovery | Security teams automatically discover undocumented and shadow APIs across their environment to eliminate blind spots. |
| API Vulnerability Assessment | Security engineers assess API posture against OWASP API Top 10 and compliance frameworks to prioritize remediation. |
| Real-Time Threat Detection | SOC analysts detect and respond to API attacks, data leakage, and suspicious behavior in real time. |
| Pre-Production API Testing | Development teams integrate API security testing into CI/CD pipelines to find and fix vulnerabilities before production. |
| Compliance Reporting | Compliance teams assess API security posture against industry frameworks and generate audit-ready reports. |
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Akamai App and API Protector | Direct integration for blocking API threats detected by API Security |
| GitHub | Automatic OpenAPI spec discovery from GitHub repositories |
| CI/CD Pipelines | Integration with development pipelines for pre-production security testing |
| SIEM | Export security events to SIEM platforms for centralized monitoring |
| AWS Marketplace | Available on AWS Marketplace for cloud-native deployments |
Machine-readable API specifications organized by format.
- 71 schema files in json-schema/
- 71 structure files in json-structure/
- 71 example files in examples/
Naftiko capabilities organized as shared per-API definitions composed into customer-facing workflows.
- API Security — 5 operations for Akamai Application Security configuration management
| Workflow | APIs Combined | Tools | Persona |
|---|---|---|---|
| API Security Management | Akamai API Security | 5 | Security Engineer, API Security Analyst |
- Akamai API Security Vocabulary — Unified taxonomy mapping 7 resources, 6 actions, 1 workflow, and 2 personas across operational (OpenAPI) and capability (Naftiko) dimensions
- Akamai API Security Spectral Rules — 22 rules across 9 categories enforcing Akamai API Security conventions
FN: Kin Lane
Email: kin@apievangelist.com