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API Discovery and Protection

Inventory APIs, test their authorization logic, and watch runtime traffic for abuse.

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How it differs Discovers, tests and protects APIs specifically, often working from the OpenAPI contract or live traffic. General web scanning of the same endpoints is DAST.

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Unified API protection platform combining external attack surface discovery, API posture analysis and machine learning driven bot and abuse defense.

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Unified API protection platform combining external attack surface discovery, API posture analysis and machine learning driven bot and abuse defense.

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