Imperva API Security

Imperva API Security is a comprehensive API threat detection and posture management solution designed to discover, inventory, and protect application programming interfaces across multi-cloud and microservices architectures. Operating with complete visibility into continuous API traffic, the platform identifies all public, private, internal, and shadow APIs, helping security teams eliminate blind spots and enforce security governance across rapid DevOps release cycles.

The platform provides continuous continuous inspection of API payloads to protect against the OWASP API Security Top 10 vulnerabilities, unauthorized business logic abuse, and sensitive data leakage. Key capabilities include automated shadow API discovery, continuous API catalog generation with OpenAPI/Swagger export, sensitive data classification (PII, credit cards, healthcare records) in API payloads, schema conformance validation, and automated risk scoring. By correlating API transaction sequences with user context, Imperva API Security identifies sophisticated attacks that bypass traditional WAF signatures, such as Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA) and Broken Object Property Level Authorization (BOPLA).

Imperva API Security integrates with leading API gateways (MuleSoft, Kong, Apigee, AWS API Gateway), CI/CD pipelines, and SIEM/SOAR platforms like Splunk and Microsoft Sentinel. Core enterprise use cases include ensuring compliance with PCI-DSS 4.0 API requirements, preventing customer data exfiltration via neglected legacy endpoints, detecting business logic manipulation in financial APIs, and maintaining an up-to-date API inventory across multi-cloud deployments. Imperva API Security gives organizations end-to-end visibility and protection for their modern application ecosystems.