“Cequence’s UAP platform offers advanced API discovery and mapping capabilities to ensure comprehensive security coverage,” Talwalkar added. “By automatically identifying all API gateways and infrastructure, including those on cloud platforms like AWS and Azure, the platform eliminates blind spots often associated with traditional security tools.”

API discovery, according to Marks, is a significant challenge in API security and the new enhancements and integrations Cequence now has will help secure its customer data effectively. “Visibility is still a big issue as organizations face challenges identifying APIs,” Marks added. “This is because developers may quickly build applications without properly documenting the APIs they create. There are also often cases of zombie APIs, which are deprecated or abandoned APIs that may still be operational. So organizations need to detect these APIs and determine whether to bring them into management, block them, or eliminate them.”

To further strengthen API visibility, Cequence has added a new “Flow graph” which is aimed at delivering an end-to-end API flow, enabling personnel to take action on malicious flows. These are useful updates to Cequence’s UAP to provide a complete API security solution, including API discovery and tracking, testing, compliance, and threat detection, with new features to address AI adoption which can further proliferate APIs and the attack surface, Marks noted.