In an industry where trust is measured by independent validation, Cequence has once again emerged as the clear standard-bearer for API security. This year, the company has been recognized as a leader by not one, but two leading analyst firms — Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) and KuppingerCole — each affirming Cequence’s leadership in innovation, maturity, and market impact. These accolades, captured in the 2025 EMA PRISM Report for API Security and the KuppingerCole 2025 Leadership Compass for API Security and Management, demonstrate that Cequence isn’t just keeping pace with the rapid evolution of API threats, it’s defining what modern protection should look like.
Setting the Platinum Standard with EMA
In EMA’s PRISM Report for API Security, Cequence achieved Platinum ratings across all evaluated categories: Product and Functionality, Integrations and Operability, and Strength and Maturity. EMA’s Vice President of Research, Christopher M. Steffen, CISSP, CISA, CCZT, praised Cequence’s UAP platform as a “comprehensive security solution designed to protect modern cloud-native applications from API-related threats.”
The report highlights the platform’s comprehensive capabilities that combines comprehensive API discovery, behavioral analysis, and real-time protection to safeguard APIs across their entire lifecycle. Cequence’s “shift-left and shield-right” approach, which promotes embedding security early in development and extending protection throughout runtime, earned particular attention as a key differentiator.
EMA also noted how Cequence’s real-time behavioral analysis powered by advanced machine learning provides “more precise threat detection and mitigation” than traditional API security tools. Beyond innovation, they underscored Cequence’s maturity and market readiness, emphasizing its rapid deployment, reduced total cost of ownership, and robust customer support, all hallmarks of a vendor with both technological strength and deep enterprise credibility.
As EMA concluded, Cequence’s leadership “reflects a commitment to fostering secure, resilient API ecosystems for organizations of all sizes,” which resonates deeply in an era when APIs drive nearly every business interaction.
Recognized as a Leader in API Security and Management by KuppingerCole
Complementing the EMA findings, the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for API Security and Management positioned Cequence firmly in the “Leader” quadrant and recognizing us as a leader in all categories: Product, Innovation, and Market Leadership. This recognition across categories underscores what KuppingerCole describes as Cequence’s “tightly integrated suite for API protection, bot mitigation, and attack surface discovery without client instrumentation, emphasizing behavioral fingerprinting and rapid deployment.”
The Leadership Compass emphasizes the growing need for consolidated API security solutions that can address the full spectrum of risk, from rogue APIs and misconfigurations to sophisticated business logic abuse. Cequence stood out for its ability to unify visibility, risk assessment, and active defense in a single platform, streamlining protection without introducing operational friction.
KuppingerCole’s analysis also credited Cequence with its strong partner ecosystem and platform scalability, noting that these strengths allow organizations to adopt Cequence as a long-term strategic foundation rather than a point solution. The report reinforced what our customers already know: Cequence detects threats others miss while simplifying how enterprises operationalize security across complex environments.
Innovation Rooted in Real-World Impact
The EMA and KuppingerCole recognitions highlight Cequence’s focus on solving the practical security challenges that modern organizations face. APIs now power nearly every digital interaction, and they’ve become a primary attack surface. Cequence’s UAP platform tackles this problem directly by combining complete API visibility, automated risk assessment, and real-time threat defense in a single solution. Its machine learning–driven behavioral analysis detects sophisticated attacks that traditional tools miss, ensuring business processes continue uninterrupted.
Leading the Future of API Security
Top marks from two respected analyst firms in the same year validate years of innovation and customer partnership. In EMA’s Platinum rankings and KuppingerCole’s Leadership Compass placement, it’s clear that Cequence sets the benchmark for what API security should be: comprehensive, effective, and scalable to the largest organizations. As organizations continue to expand their digital ecosystems, Cequence remains focused on helping them do so securely by discovering and managing every API and defending them from attacks, fraud, and business logic abuse.
Download your complimentary copy of the KuppingerCole 2025 Leadership Compass for API Security and Management and the 2025 EMA PRISM Report for API Security today.
