Cequence Security’s Unified API Protection Platform
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Cequence Security’s Unified API Protection Platform
Additional Info
| Company | Cequence Security |
| Website | https://www.cequence.ai/ |
| Company size (employees) | 100 to 499 |
| Headquarters Region | North America |
| Type of solution | Software |
Overview
Cequence uncovered a remarkable 900% increase in shadow API activity, soaring from 5 billion to approximately 45 billion search attempts between the first and latter halves of 2022. This exposes a significant gap in API visibility. Cequence introduced the first Unified API Protection Platform to address this challenge by enhancing visibility, cutting costs, and mitigating risks to provide a robust defense against persistent attackers. This platform’s unique methodology integrates autonomous discovery and native inline resolution, eliminating reliance on third-party tools and ensuring seamless protection.
Cequence is the leading provider of API security and Unified API protection solutions. Utilizing advanced behavioral fingerprinting, Cequence swiftly identifies and mitigates evolving API attacks, providing flexible responses like blocking, rate limiting, geo-fencing, and decoy responses—complementing the security capabilities found in WAFs and API gateways with the most complete set of API security features available.
Recent advancements in Cequence’s Unified API Protection Platform further solidify its position as an industry leader. Integrating generative AI automation into its API security testing has streamlined deployment through low-code/no-code workflows, marking a significant leap forward in security automation. Cequence is pioneering the use of generative AI and no-code automation to combat online fraud, setting new standards for API security solutions.
Cequence continues to innovate, updating its platform to align with the latest OWASP API Top 10 2023 and introducing a Fraud Prevention module seamlessly integrated with over 300 third-party apps. With tools like API Spyder providing comprehensive visibility, Cequence ensures complete coverage throughout the API lifecycle.
The Unified API Protection Platform represents more than just a solution—it signifies a paradigm shift in API security. By addressing evolving threats and leveraging technologies like generative AI and no-code automation, Cequence establishes a new standard for API security, delivering robust protection against emerging threats with ease of deployment and comprehensive coverage.
Key Capabilities / Features
1. API Spyder: Attack Surface Discovery & Management
API Spyder reveals an organization’s API attack surface and the vulnerabilities they represent by discovering external APIs across managed and unmanaged API infrastructure, identifying those APIs having issues. This allows security teams to ensure that API risks are remediated and unmanaged APIs are brought under management. Once deployed, API Spyder provides a continuous mechanism to surface unmanaged shadow APIs, often having been newly implemented by internal departments without notifying the security team of their existence.
2. API Sentinel: API Security Posture Management
API Sentinel enables security and development teams to work collaboratively to address surfaced security issues within runtime APIs that could lead to API exploits. It discovers whether APIs conform to OpenAPI specifications, adhere to security and governance best practices, and test pre-production APIs for vulnerabilities. API Sentinel lays the groundwork to ensure complete visibility of the risks inherent in API applications, enabling remediation of critical security issues before an attacker exploits them.
3. API Spartan: Comprehensive API Protection, Bot Management, and Fraud Prevention
API Spartan safeguards organizations against a broad spectrum of bot attacks to prevent data loss, theft, and fraud. By doing so, API Spartan minimizes adverse business effects such as site downtime, brand damage, distorted sales analytics, and higher cloud costs. API Spartan deploys rapidly with no application modifications or adverse performance effects, protecting web, mobile, and API applications, cloud infrastructure, and other pure APIs. Employing unique, highly accurate fingerprinting – behavior-based threat identification – API Spartan enables native, real-time mitigation of a wide variety of attacks, including bot activity, business logic attacks, and fraud, as well as those detailed in the OWASP API Security Top 10.
How we are different
-Unlike point API security solutions, Cequence unifies API discovery, compliance, and protection capabilities to defend against attacks, targeted abuse, fraud, and data loss. Cequence Security is the sole solution offering a comprehensive approach encompassing the entirety of an organization's API attack surface to eradicate unknown and unmitigated security risks. Cequence is also the first to announce managed service in API security.
-Cequence's unparalleled ability to defend against a wide array of attacks listed in the OWASP API Security Top 10, OWASP Web Application Security Top 10, and OWASP Automated Threat list. This level of protection ensures compliance with industry standards while mitigating diverse security threats effectively. Cequence offers a swift and effortless onboarding process, which takes less than 15 minutes per API without requiring any instrumentation, SDK, or JavaScript integration. Its flexible deployment options cater to various infrastructures, including SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid installations, enhancing its accessibility and ease of implementation. Cequence's customers leverage the platform to enhance customer satisfaction, streamline administrative processes, maintain compliance, and drive overall revenue growth, showcasing its tangible impact on business outcomes.
-With the scale to handle the demanding needs of Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies, Cequence safeguards over 8 billion daily API calls and protects over 3 billion user accounts. Cequence’s customers range from two of the top three telecom providers in the U.S. to large retail brands like Ulta Beauty. Cequence is the only vendor recognized in both Gartner's API Threat Protection and Bot Management Hype Cycles. It is also the first API security solution offered on the HPE Marketplace and the only API Security vendor contributing to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. The company was recently recognized in Built In's 2024 Best Places to Work Awards for its commitment to fostering a workplace where innovation thrives.
