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API Discovery and Protection

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

9 tools profiled

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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API Security

API security platform built around the OpenAPI contract, auditing definitions, scanning live endpoints for conformance, and enforcing the schema at runtime.

Commercial, free tier +1

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API security platform built around the OpenAPI contract, auditing definitions, scanning live endpoints for conformance, and enforcing the schema at runtime.

Commercial, free tier +1 Established

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