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API Security Posture Management, 
Testing, and Remediation

Cequence API Security is an AI-first solution that discovers, monitors, and tests your APIs, assessing a broad range of risks that can lead to compliance or governance issues, data loss, and business disruption.

Read the API Security DatasheetA Cequence runtime dashboard highlighting the number and types of API endpoints discovered, API transactions, and API endpoint risk levels.

Today’s Businesses Run on APIs

IT, security, and development teams need visibility and control to enact a robust API security program. Use cases include:

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API Discovery & Inventory

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API Risk Identification & Classification

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API Security Testing

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Sensitive Data Detection, Masking, and Exposure Prevention

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OWASP API Security Top 10 Risk Categorization

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API Attack Surface Reduction

API Security Key Features

AI-First Architecture with Built-in AI Assistant and MCP Server

API Security’s built-in AI Assistant answers questions like “which public APIs handle sensitive data?” and returns ranked, evidence-backed findings teams act on in the same conversation. It also exposes every capability as MCP tools, so teams can use the product as part of their internal agentic workflows. Governance is built in; read actions run freely, while every write requires human-in-the-loop approval that shows the exact change first.

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Compliance-ready Risk Rules and Reporting

API Security ships more than 200 pre-built risk rules mapped to 25 global frameworks, including every version of the OWASP API Security Top 10, PCI DSS, GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and NIST CSF. Audit-ready reports generate in a single click, building from live data, mapping findings to each framework’s controls, scoring risk by control area, and giving remediation guidance for every gap. Observe mode scores new rules without raising formal issues.

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Comprehensive API Discovery and Inventory

Cequence discovers internal, external, and third-party APIs as well as edge, infrastructure, gateway, and hosting providers. A combination of inside-out and outside-in discovery provides attack surface and internal API visibility and inventory. Cequence integrates directly with your existing infrastructure such as API gateways or can be deployed inline.

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Continuous Risk Visibility

Cequence automatically identifies all your API endpoints – documented, undocumented, third-party, and even shadow APIs to create a runtime API catalog. Discovered APIs are inventoried and assessed for risk related to access control, sensitive data leakage, and even compliance with the published API specification – and automatically generate them if not available. Rules and prioritization are user configurable and require no coding or scripting.

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Sensitive Data Exposure Prevention

Cequence automatically identifies and masks sensitive data using ML-based rules with predefined (e.g., credit card numbers) and customizable data patterns. Sensitive data patterns are supported worldwide, enabling differentiation between a US driver’s license number from a Saudi National ID Card ID number, for example. Sensitive data is identified wherever it is, without having to explicitly define specific APIs that transact it or what data is sensitive.

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Integrated API Security Testing

Cequence enables IT and development teams to thoroughly test their APIs, identifying and remediating vulnerabilities and coding errors, both in pre-production and at runtime. Test plans can be automatically generated from Postman collections or API specifications, eliminating a great deal of manual work. Supports CI/CD pipelines, IDEs, and stand-alone testing.

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API Attack Protection

Cequence API Security protects web, mobile, and API applications from attacks to prevent data loss, theft, and fraud. ML-powered threat detection and analytics and integration with third-party defensive solutions such as WAFs and API gateways ensures protection against even the most sophisticated attacks. Cequence Bot Management provides native mitigation including blocking, logging, rate limiting, header injection, and deception.

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Cequence API Security is Part of the Cequence Platform

Cequence protects the applications and data that power the agentic enterprise. The Cequence platform delivers deep insight into user, entity, and agent behavior, enabling organizations to secure and control agentic AI workflows while protecting against bad actors and rogue agents. Trusted by the largest and most demanding private and public sector organizations, Cequence protects more than 10 billion daily API interactions and 4 billion user accounts.
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Customer Success Story

Hibbett Scores with Cequence Security API Discovery, Compliance, and Protection

Hibbett is an athletic-inspired fashion retailer with a vast network of physical locations and a large online presence. As their business grew, they wanted better visibility into APIs to reduce the risk of data lost, theft, and fraud, as well as the ability to detect and remediate API vulnerabilities before moving new apps into production. They chose the Cequence Unified API Protection platform to cover these needs and much more.
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