Evident.io was a cloud security posture management company, founded in 2013, best known for the Evident Security Platform (ESP) — an agentless SaaS service that continuously monitored Amazon Web Services (and later Microsoft Azure) accounts for security misconfigurations, compliance drift, and risk across services like IAM, S3, EC2, and CloudTrail. ESP scored findings against frameworks such as CIS Benchmarks, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and SOC 2, and exposed its analysis programmatically through a REST API so teams could automate remediation and wire results into their DevSecOps pipelines. Palo Alto Networks acquired Evident.io in March 2018 for roughly $300M and folded the technology into what became Prisma Cloud. The standalone evident.io product, developer portal, and API have been retired; the domain is now defensively held with no live website or API surface. This record is retained for historical/network-graph completeness — there is no live API to enrich.
Evident.io is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Enterprise, Security, Cloud Security, and Cloud Security Posture Management.
Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.
aid: evidentio
deliveryModel:
model: unknown
open_source: false
commercial: false
callable_host: false
label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
confidence: low
source:
- none
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: unknown
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Unknown
confidence: low
source: []
generated: '2026-07-22'
method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/evidentio.png
name: Evident.io
description: Evident.io was a cloud security posture management company, founded in 2013, best known for the Evident Security
Platform (ESP) — an agentless SaaS service that continuously monitored Amazon Web Services (and later Microsoft Azure) accounts
for security misconfigurations, compliance drift, and risk across services like IAM, S3, EC2, and CloudTrail. ESP scored
findings against frameworks such as CIS Benchmarks, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and SOC 2, and exposed its analysis programmatically
through a REST API so teams could automate remediation and wire results into their DevSecOps pipelines. Palo Alto Networks
acquired Evident.io in March 2018 for roughly $300M and folded the technology into what became Prisma Cloud. The standalone
evident.io product, developer portal, and API have been retired; the domain is now defensively held with no live website
or API surface. This record is retained for historical/network-graph completeness — there is no live API to enrich.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/evidentio/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- gv
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: paloaltonetworks
x-acquired-year: 2018
x-successor: Prisma Cloud (Palo Alto Networks)
x-enrichment-note: Domain evident.io registered (MarkMonitor/Akamai) but has no A record; no live website, docs, or API. No
provider artifacts are derivable — company defunct as a standalone since the 2018 Palo Alto Networks acquisition.
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Enterprise
- Security
- Cloud Security
- Cloud Security Posture Management
- Compliance
- AWS
- DevSecOps
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-07-19'
status: backfilled
pass: local-v1
note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence
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