API Sentinel
API Security Posture Management
API Sentinel 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.
API Sentinel is available as part of the Cequence Unified API Protection platform
or as separate Security Compliance and Security Testing modules.
API Sentinel Security Compliance
offers continuous API discovery, inventory, and risk assessment.
API Sentinel Security Testing
offers API security testing that identifies vulnerabilities and other issues that could be exploited.
Today’s online businesses run on APIs, and IT and security teams need visibility and control to enact a robust API security program. Use cases addressed by API Sentinel include:
API discovery & inventory
Generation of API definitions from API discovery
API risk identification & classification
Sensitive data exposure detection and prevention
API security testing
OWASP API Security Top 10 risk identification
API Sentinel Key Features
Comprehensive API Discovery
Unlike competing solutions, API Sentinel deploys at the network level and requires no server- or client-side agents, JavaScript, or SDK integration. This approach ensures API discovery and compliance is not limited to the systems that can be instrumented and eliminates downstream penalties such as extended development cycles, slow page loads, and increased cloud costs. API Sentinel is easily deployed inline or integrates directly with your existing infrastructure such as API gateways. API Sentinel’s inside-out approach contributes to a comprehensive API discovery program, which also includes outside-in discovery provided by Cequence API Spyder.
Continuous, Real-Time Risk Assessment
API Sentinel 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. Default rules and prioritization are user configurable to meet the needs of your business and require no coding or scripting.
Identify Sensitive Data Exposure
API Sentinel identifies sensitive data based on ML-based rules with predefined (e.g., credit card and social security numbers) and customizable data patterns. A graphical dashboard displays the results with details such as the API source leaking the data and the pattern found.
Integrated API Security Testing
Empowers IT and development teams to thoroughly test their APIs, including those associated with Large Language Models (LLMs), identifying and remediating vulnerabilities and coding errors, both in pre-production and at runtime. Autonomously generates API specs without human involvement, eliminating significant manual effort. Supports CI/CD pipelines, IDEs, or stand-alone testing.
API Sentinel is Part of the Cequence Unified API Protection Platform
The Cequence Unified API Protection platform unites discovery, compliance, and protection across all internal and external APIs to defend against attacks, targeted abuse, and fraud. API Sentinel mitigates issues using API Spartan to natively block incoming attacks or sensitive data exposure. Cequence solutions scale to handle the most demanding government, Fortune and Global 500 organizations, securing more than 8 billion daily API calls and protecting more than 3 billion user accounts.
Reducing API Sprawl at a Global Telecom Provider
This customer developed broad API sprawl through years of organic growth and acquisitions. API Sentinel provided a continuous runtime API inventory of thousands of APIs including internal, external, and even shadow APIs. APIs inadvertently exposing sensitive data or otherwise not conforming to spec were also identified for swift remediation. The continuous monitoring ability of API Sentinel ensured that existing APIs would be tracked and new APIs would be discovered as soon as they appeared.
Find out how Cequence can help your organization
Cequence API security experts will show you how we can help to protect your API applications with a personalized demo.
