Security is one of the API Evangelist areas on the APIs.io network — a focused corner of the API landscape. The full area lives at security.apievangelist.com.
30 providers on the network work in this area, including Mailboxlayer, Cisco Identity Services Engine, ShieldLabs, Very Good Security, Amazon Secrets Manager, Evervault, and 24 more — each links out to that provider’s APIs, schemas, and governance artifacts.
Related areas: Containers, DNS, Machine Learning, and Serverless. Browse every area at areas.apis.io.
About this area
An index and topic collection covering API security, identity, access management, secrets management, encryption, and threat protection. API security spans the full lifecycle of…
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Top 30 of 797 network providers tagged for this area — search the full set on apis.io.
| Provider | Description | APIs | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mailboxlayer | Real-time email validation and verification REST/JSON API operated by APILayer. Provides syntax checks, typo suggestions, MX-record lookup, SMTP verification, catch-all/role/dis... | 2 | exemplar |
| Cisco Identity Services Engine | Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) is Cisco's network access control and zero-trust policy platform: 802.1X and RADIUS authentication, TACACS+ device administration, guest and... | 197 | exemplar |
| ShieldLabs | Anonymous visitor identification and fraud-prevention platform. A browser ES-module snippet loaded from cdn.shieldlabs.ai collects 100+ device and network signals and returns si... | 1 | exemplar |
| Very Good Security | Very Good Security (VGS) is a data security and payments infrastructure company that lets organizations operate on sensitive data — payment card numbers, bank accounts, PII, and... | 1 | exemplar |
| Amazon Secrets Manager | Amazon Secrets Manager helps you manage, retrieve, and rotate database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycle. It provides centralized secrets manag... | 5 | exemplar |
| Evervault | Evervault is a data-security and payments-infrastructure platform that lets developers encrypt, tokenize, and process sensitive data - especially cardholder data - without it to... | 12 | exemplar |
| imgauth — API di attestazione opere digitali | Digital-work attestation and proof-of-existence service operated by Spazio Genesi ETS, an Italian non-profit (third-sector entity). The client computes a SHA-256 fingerprint loc... | 2 | exemplar |
| Cisco XDR | Cisco XDR is Cisco's extended detection and response platform, the successor to SecureX. It correlates telemetry from Cisco Secure Endpoint, Secure Firewall, Umbrella, Duo, Secu... | 50 | strong |
| Barndoor | Barndoor AI is the control plane for agentic AI, providing secure access and governance for AI agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Founded in 2024 by Oren Michels (... | 13 | strong |
| anecdotes | anecdotes is an enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) platform, founded in 2020 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, that pairs a GRC data engine with AI agents to replace ... | 3 | strong |
| Shodan | Shodan is the world's first search engine for Internet-connected devices. It continuously crawls the public Internet to build a searchable database of servers, IoT devices, indu... | 15 | strong |
| IBM | A collection of IBM's public APIs and developer resources. | 55 | strong |
| Kondukto | Kondukto — now shipped as Invicti ASPM following Invicti Security's acquisition of the company — is an Application Security Posture Management platform that centralizes and auto... | 11 | strong |
| Cisco Umbrella | Cisco Umbrella, built on the OpenDNS platform Cisco acquired in 2015 and now sold within Cisco Secure Access, is Cisco's cloud-delivered security service: DNS-layer security, se... | 26 | strong |
| Cloudflare | Cloudflare is a global network designed to make everything you connect to the Internet secure, private, fast, and reliable. | 87 | strong |
| Cisco Secure Firewall | Cisco Secure Firewall is the product line built on the Sourcefire technology Cisco acquired in 2013 — the Firepower/Secure Firewall appliances and Threat Defense (FTD) software,... | 108 | strong |
| Amazon KMS | AWS Key Management Service (KMS) is a managed service that makes it easy to create and control the cryptographic keys used to protect your data, integrated with other AWS servic... | 2 | strong |
| 1Password | 1Password is a password manager that helps individuals and businesses securely store and manage passwords, credentials, and sensitive information. The platform provides a Connec... | 11 | strong |
| Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. Free to join, pay only for what you use. | 8 | strong |
| Fastly | Fastly is an edge cloud platform that helps customers create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing their applications cl... | 80 | strong |
| Censys | Censys is an internet intelligence and attack surface management platform that continuously scans the public IPv4 space, IPv6 announced ranges, and the global certificate transp... | 14 | strong |
| Databricks | Collection of Databricks REST APIs for managing workspaces, clusters, jobs, and data operations. | 57 | strong |
| Exclaimer | Exclaimer is an email signature management platform used by IT, marketing, and sales teams to centrally create, deploy, and govern corporate email signatures across Microsoft 36... | 1 | strong |
| GreyNoise Intelligence | GreyNoise Intelligence collects and analyzes Internet-wide scan and attack traffic from a global network of sensors. Use GreyNoise to contextualize alerts, filter false positive... | 10 | strong |
| Method Security | Method Security is a cybersecurity company delivering cyber resilience to the U.S. Government and critical enterprises through an AI-native, full-spectrum security platform. The... | 10 | strong |
| ZeroTier | ZeroTier, Inc. builds a software-defined networking (SDN) overlay that securely connects devices, servers, clouds, and networks anywhere in the world as if they were on the same... | 8 | strong |
| Yubico | Yubico is the security company behind the YubiKey hardware authentication device and the inventor of the Yubico One-Time Password (OTP). Its public developer surface centers on ... | 1 | strong |
| Chef Software | Chef Software is the DevOps automation company behind Chef Infra, Chef InSpec, Chef Habitat, and Chef Automate, now part of Progress Software. Chef pioneered infrastructure-as-c... | 30 | strong |
| Clerk | Clerk is a complete user management and authentication infrastructure platform offering embeddable UI components, flexible APIs, and admin dashboards. It provides full-stack aut... | 77 | strong |
| Kolide | Kolide is a device trust and endpoint security platform, now part of 1Password Extended Access Management. It enforces Zero Trust access by blocking non-compliant devices from a... | 17 | strong |
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