Akto

Akto is a pioneering API security platform that leverages AI Agents to transform how organizations protect their applications. Positioned as the only Code-to-Runtime API Security Platform, Akto addresses the critical challenges of API sprawl and the limitations of traditional security tools. It provides a comprehensive, automated solution trusted by Fortune 500 companies and modern AppSec teams to build a robust API security program without the heavy lifting. By deploying autonomous security agents, Akto shifts the paradigm from manual, time-consuming security tasks to a proactive, continuously learning digital workforce that secures your entire API ecosystem.

How to use Akto

Getting started with Akto is a streamlined process designed for efficiency and seamless integration:

1. Connect & Discover: Integrate Akto into your environment using one of over 50 traffic connectors. Akto can connect to cloud platforms, staging or dev environments, and even production. Once connected, it automatically discovers and catalogs all your APIs, including REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and SOAP, creating a real-time, comprehensive inventory. This process uncovers undocumented, unmanaged (shadow), and deprecated (zombie) APIs.
2. Analyze & Prioritize: The platform analyzes the discovered APIs to identify sensitive data exposure, misconfigurations, and unauthenticated endpoints. It assigns a risk score to each API, allowing security teams to prioritize their efforts on the most critical assets.
3. Automate Testing: Leverage Akto's extensive test library, which contains over 1000 pre-built tests covering OWASP Top 10, authentication issues, and other vulnerabilities. You can schedule continuous testing, run tests on-demand via CLI, or integrate them directly into your CI/CD pipeline to catch issues before they reach production. Users can also create custom tests for specific business logic.
4. Integrate & Remediate: Findings are displayed on a centralized dashboard with detailed context and a timeline view. Akto integrates seamlessly with tools like Jira for ticketing and remediation, and provides real-time alerts via email or webhooks. This DevSecOps approach ensures that security is a shared responsibility and integrated into the development lifecycle.

Core Features of Akto

• AI-Powered API Discovery: Automatically creates a comprehensive inventory of all APIs (REST, GraphQL, gRPC, SOAP) across your infrastructure, identifying shadow, zombie, and external APIs.
• Automated API Security Testing: Features the world's largest test library with 1000+ tests for continuous, automated vulnerability scanning. It supports custom test creation and integration into CI/CD pipelines.
• API Security Posture Management (ASPM): Provides a continuous assessment of your API security posture, including risk scoring, misconfiguration detection, and compliance with standards like OWASP.
• Sensitive Data Exposure Detection: Automatically detects and classifies sensitive data within your APIs, helps manage exposure, and supports data redaction to enhance security and compliance.
• Agentic Security with AI Agents: Deploys autonomous AI agents that act like 24/7 security engineers. They continuously monitor, learn, and adapt to new threats with human-like reasoning, reducing manual effort and response time.
• DevSecOps Integration: Seamlessly integrates with CI/CD tools, code repositories, and issue trackers like Jira to embed security into the development process and block vulnerable releases.
• Runtime API Protection: Offers continuous monitoring and protection for APIs in runtime environments, providing an extra layer of defense against active threats.

Use Cases for Akto

Akto is ideal for various security scenarios:

• Tackling API Sprawl: For organizations struggling to manage thousands of undocumented and unmanaged APIs, Akto provides complete visibility and control.
• Automating DevSecOps: For AppSec teams aiming to 'shift left', Akto automates security testing within the CI/CD pipeline, enabling developers to find and fix vulnerabilities early.
• Protecting Sensitive Data: For industries like finance, healthcare, and e-commerce, Akto identifies and secures APIs that handle PII, financial data, and other sensitive information.
• Scaling Security Teams: Akto's AI agents act as a force multiplier, allowing smaller security teams to effectively manage the security of a large and growing API landscape.

Advantages of Akto

Akto offers significant advantages over traditional security tools:

• Autonomous Operation: AI agents work 24/7, providing continuous vigilance and instant response without human intervention.
• Speed and Efficiency: Delivers security testing and analysis up to 100x faster than manual processes, accelerating development cycles.
• Comprehensive Coverage: A single platform for the entire API lifecycle, from code to runtime, across all major API types.
• Proactive Security: Moves beyond reactive defense by identifying and prioritizing risks before they can be exploited.
• Ease of Use & Integration: Designed for easy deployment with minimal configuration and seamless integration into existing workflows and toolchains.

Pricing and Plans

Akto offers flexible pricing plans with both cloud-hosted and self-hosted deployment options:

• Free Plan: Ideal for individuals, small projects, and learning. Includes up to 25 API endpoints/month, 12,500 tests/month, and community support.
• Professional Plan: Designed for growing businesses. Includes everything in Free, plus up to 100 API endpoints, 200,000 tests, Jira and CI/CD integrations, and enhanced reporting. Pricing is available upon request.
• Enterprise Plan: A comprehensive solution for large organizations with mission-critical needs. Offers 300 to unlimited API endpoints, 1M+ tests, advanced security features (data redaction, SSO, RBAC), and expert 24/7 support. Pricing is available upon request.