Akto

Akto is a cybersecurity company focused on API security and the emerging security requirements of AI-powered applications and agents. Its platform helps organizations discover APIs from real traffic, maintain continuously updated API inventories, test APIs for vulnerabilities and monitor runtime security issues. Akto supports dynamic application security testing with coverage for OWASP API risks and business-logic vulnerabilities, while also providing API security posture capabilities for risk scoring, sensitive data exposure and misconfiguration detection. The company has expanded into agentic AI security through products designed to help organizations secure AI agents, tools and workflows. Akto can integrate with traffic sources and development workflows so security teams can incorporate API testing into CI/CD and ongoing security processes. Its platform is intended for security and engineering teams that need continuous visibility rather than periodic API assessments. Akto was founded by Ankita Gupta and Ankush Jain and has raised venture funding to develop its API security platform. The company serves enterprise customers across technology and other data-intensive industries. Its security model emphasizes automated discovery, continuous testing, runtime protection and practical remediation. Akto is particularly relevant to organizations whose applications increasingly depend on APIs, microservices and AI agents that need controlled access to business systems.