emerging · 0.7 market domain

Network Security

Score 23.5 / 100 74 providers +5 via APIs 14 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (74)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 7 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 8 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 18 Limited public surface area
Emerging 20 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 14 Almost no public developer surface
Unrated 6 Not yet scored

APIs with this tag (14)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 4 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented

Companies reaching this through an API (5)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Network Security” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Azure Networking Services Cloudflare IBM Netscout VMware

Score breakdown

Frequency
53.2
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
1.9
spread across providers
Quality lift
34.7
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
18.5
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Firewall 17 co-occurrences Zero Trust 25 co-occurrences Cloud Security 21 co-occurrences Microsegmentation 8 co-occurrences SASE 8 co-occurrences Cybersecurity 41 co-occurrences Network Detection and Response 6 co-occurrences Secure Web Gateway 6 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag74
Api tag14

Cohort brief

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The 62 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Network Security, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
62
all scored
Mean Kin Score
30.9
+8.0 vs catalog 22.9
Mean Agent Readiness
14.2
+2.3 vs catalog 11.9
Spread
3.4–76.9
median 30.5 · σ 17
How the 62 split by band
Exemplar 1Strong 7Developing 8Thin 18Emerging 20Minimal 8
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Developer Ergonomics 35.8 23.2 +12.6 62
Contract Quality 26.5 17.6 +8.9 62
Discoverability 63 58.1 +4.9 62
Access Clarity 30.7 26.5 +4.2 62
Operational Transparency 17.7 13.7 +4 62
Contract Governance 10 6.3 +3.7 62

A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 15% 14% +1
MCP server (first-party) 9% 12% -3
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 7% 11% -4
Security 91% 98% -7
Arazzo workflows 6% 2% +4
Governance rules 24% 14% +10

mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 Palo Alto Networks 76.9
  2. 2 Calico 66.3
  3. 3 Graphiant 59.8
  4. 4 Microsoft Entra 58.5
  5. 5 Amazon Firewall Manager 57.6
  6. 6 Cisco Secure Firewall 56.4
  7. 7 Nord Security 56.4
  8. 8 Tigera 55.9
  9. 9 Amazon Network Firewall 53.5
  10. 10 AbuseIPDB 51.5
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Nord Security 43.5
  2. 2 Cisco Secure Firewall 39.2
  3. 3 Tigera 39.1
  4. 4 Palo Alto Networks 36.9
  5. 5 Calico 36.2
  6. 6 Forward Networks 31.6
  7. 7 Graphiant 30.7
  8. 8 Amazon Firewall Manager 30.6
  9. 9 Amazon Network Firewall 30.6
  10. 10 Netography 29.2
All 74 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of 5 October 2026, across 29093 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.

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