# Akamai API Security

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/akamai-api-security/  
**Website:** https://www.akamai.com/products/api-security  
**APIs profiled:** 65

Akamai API Security (formerly Noname Security) provides comprehensive API discovery, posture management, and threat protection for organizations across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. The platform continuously discovers and monitors all APIs, identifies vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, detects and responds to API threats in real time, and provides pre-production security testing integrated into CI/CD pipelines.

## Kin Score — 36.9 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.9 from 36.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 58.7 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 32.9 |
| Access Clarity | 32.9 |

## Agent readiness — 29.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | verified |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (65)

- **Akamai APIs** — Akamai provides a comprehensive set of REST APIs for managing and configuring their platform services, including API security, CDN, edge computing, and security products. The AP...
- **Akamai API Security Activation history API** — Get the activation history for a configuration.
- **Akamai API Security Activation status API** — Get status information about your activations and activation requests.
- **Akamai API Security Activations API** — Manage your security configuration activations.
- **Akamai API Security API endpoints API** — Get the list of API endpoints associated with a security policy.
- **Akamai API Security API request constraints API** — Manage API request limits and the actions to take when those limits are met.
- **Akamai API Security Attack payload logs API** — Manage the attack payload log settings for your security configurations.
- **Akamai API Security Available hostnames API** — List all hostnames for a given contract and group.
- **Akamai API Security Bypass network lists API** — Manage the bypass network lists used with your security policies.
- **Akamai API Security Client reputation API** — Manage your client reputation profiles.
- **Akamai API Security Client-Side Protections & Compliance API** — The Client-Side Protections & Compliance API from Akamai API Security — 1 operation(s) for client-side protections & compliance.
- **Akamai API Security Configuration: Evaluation hostnames API** — Manage hostnames you're currently evaluating for a configuration version. If using Web Application Protector, manage hostnames currently in evaluation mode. This mode lets you t...
- **Akamai API Security Configuration version diff API** — The Configuration version diff API from Akamai API Security — 1 operation(s) for configuration version diff.
- **Akamai API Security Configuration version export API** — Get comprehensive details about a security configuration version.
- **Akamai API Security Contracts and groups API** — List the contracts and groups for your account.
- **Akamai API Security Cookie Settings API** — The Cookie Settings API from Akamai API Security — 1 operation(s) for cookie settings.
- **Akamai API Security Custom rule actions API** — Manage the actions contained in your custom rules. Use custom rules to handle scenarios not covered by the included standard rules or to quickly patch new website vulnerabilities.
- **Akamai API Security CVE Protections lookup API** — See which CVEs are covered by App & API Protector. The catalog contains only CVEs that the Akamai Threat Research team is aware of. App & API Protector can identify and block at...
- **Akamai API Security Discovered APIs API** — Get information about APIs discovered in your traffic that are new or not yet protected under API protections.
- **Akamai API Security Endpoints API** — Manage the API endpoints associated with a security policy.
- **Akamai API Security Evasive path match API** — Manage the evasive path match for your security configurations.
- **Akamai API Security Failover hostnames API** — Get a list of the failover hostnames in a security configuration.
- **Akamai API Security General configuration settings API** — Manage security configurations and their versions.
- **Akamai API Security General policy settings API** — Manage security policies and their versions.
- **Akamai API Security Hostname coverage API** — Get the list of hostnames in an account with their current protections, activation statuses, and other summary information.
- **Akamai API Security Hostnames API** — Manage the hostnames in your configuration settings.
- **Akamai API Security HTTP header logs API** — Manage the HTTP header log settings for security policies.
- **Akamai API Security IP/Geo Firewall settings API** — Manage which network lists are used in the IP/Geo Firewall settings. If you want to add or remove IP addresses from the network lists, use the Network Lists API.
- **Akamai API Security Malware policy actions API** — Manage the actions taken by your malware policies.
- **Akamai API Security Match targets API** — Manage your match targets, which define which security policy applies to an API, hostname, or path.
- **Akamai API Security Onboarding: Activations and status API** — Manage your onboardings' activations, and the activation history for each onboarding.
- **Akamai API Security Onboarding: Creation and settings API** — Manage onboardings and their settings.
- **Akamai API Security Onboarding: Post-activation validation API** — Manage your post activations validations and cname your hostnames to akamai in order to go live.
- **Akamai API Security PII learning API** — Manage settings for Personally Identifiable Information (PII) learning. With this feature, the network discovers PII on your behalf.
- **Akamai API Security Pragma settings API** — Manage the Pragma header settings for your security policies.
- **Akamai API Security Prefetch requests API** — Manage your prefetch request protections. When enabled, your application firewall rules inspect internal requests, which are those between your origin and Akamai's servers, for ...
- **Akamai API Security Protections API** — Manage various security policy protections. These settings enable or disable each protection on your policy. However, you set the protections themselves in their corresponding o...
- **Akamai API Security Rate policy actions API** — Manage rate policy actions, which are the actions each policy takes when conditions are met.
- **Akamai API Security Reputation analysis API** — If using Kona Site Defender, manage the reputation analysis settings.
- **Akamai API Security Request body inspection limits API** — Manage limits for the maximum request body size allowed.
- …and 25 more, listed in full on the page.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Akamai Api Security Agentic Access** — 213 operations · 103 acting

## Security (1)

- **Akamai Api Security Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Akamai Api Security Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **Shadow API Discovery** — Security teams automatically discover undocumented and shadow APIs across their environment to eliminate blind spots.
- **API Vulnerability Assessment** — Security engineers assess API posture against OWASP API Top 10 and compliance frameworks to prioritize remediation.
- **Real-Time Threat Detection** — SOC analysts detect and respond to API attacks, data leakage, and suspicious behavior in real time.
- **Pre-Production API Testing** — Development teams integrate API security testing into CI/CD pipelines to find and fix vulnerabilities before production.
- **Compliance Reporting** — Compliance teams assess API security posture against industry frameworks and generate audit-ready reports.

## Tags

API Discovery, API Security, Cloud Security, Posture Management, Runtime Protection, Threat Protection

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/akamai-api-security/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.