Introduction
APIDynamics is designed for real-world environments. Instead of forcing developer rewrites, it drops into your existing stack — gateways, service mesh, cloud platforms, SaaS applications, and AI frameworks.
Every API call, whether triggered by a human, machine, or AI agent, is inspected and scored in real time. Adaptive MFA and Zero Trust policies are applied consistently across your infrastructure, ensuring sensitive operations are verified without breaking workflows.
API Gateways & Service Mesh
APIDynamics integrates natively with gateways and meshes, extending security beyond the perimeter.
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Envoy / Istio → Deploy as a sidecar or filter to enforce Zero Trust across both east-west (service-to-service) and north-south (inbound/outbound) API calls in Kubernetes.
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Kong, Apigee, NGINX → Add per-call adaptive MFA and proof-of-possession (PoP) validation directly at the gateway layer.
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AWS API Gateway / Azure API Management → Complement native API gateway policies with APIDynamics’ risk scoring, contextual enforcement, and MFA injection.
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Akamai API Gateway & Edge → Combine Akamai’s global edge scale with APIDynamics’ per-transaction trust.
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Enforce adaptive challenges at the edge, before requests touch your backend.
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Pair Akamai Firewall for AI (prompt/output filtering) with APIDynamics (per-call MFA) for a complete AI + API security stack.
How it works: APIDynamics deploys as a reverse proxy or plugin inside your gateway or service mesh. Requests are intercepted, evaluated in milliseconds, and either passed through, challenged, or blocked based on real-time policy.
Cloud Platforms
APIDynamics ensures cloud-native Zero Trust for public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.
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AWS → Require step-up MFA for IAM role creation, S3 object deletions, KMS key rotations, and Lambda invocations. Integrates with CloudTrail for full audit visibility.
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Azure → Enforce adaptive policies for Azure Entra service principals, ARM API operations, and storage account modifications.
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GCP → Bind service account tokens with PoP, enforce MFA for IAM updates, BigQuery exports, and Cloud Storage actions.
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Kubernetes → Deploy APIDynamics as ingress/egress sidecars, protecting microservices and MCP agents without code changes.
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Akamai Edge → Push enforcement closer to end users and agents.
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Detect and stop token replay or stolen credential abuse at the edge.
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Combine Akamai’s edge firewalling with APIDynamics’ transactional trust enforcement for enterprise-grade AI + API defense.
How it works: APIDynamics deploys as a reverse proxy or plugin inside your gateway or service mesh. Requests are intercepted, evaluated in milliseconds, and either passed through, challenged, or blocked based on real-time policy.
SaaS Applications
Enterprise SaaS APIs are just as vulnerable as custom ones. APIDynamics enforces per-transaction security across the most critical SaaS systems.
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Salesforce, Workday, ServiceNow, SAP → Step-up MFA for financial transactions, HR data changes, or bulk record exports.
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Office 365, Google Workspace → Enforce adaptive controls for headless integrations and machine-to-machine automation.
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Financial SaaS → Guard AR/AP workflows, covenant monitoring, and payment APIs with policy-driven trust.
How it works: APIDynamics acts as a proxy layer in front of SaaS APIs, applying contextual rules like time, location, data type, and request volume.
AI & MCP Ecosystems
AI introduces new risks — autonomous agents acting without human oversight. APIDynamics secures this new layer.
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MCP Servers (OpenAI MCP, LangChain, Semantic Kernel) → Add guardrails to tool invocations with adaptive MFA enforcement.
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LLMs & AI Agents → Prevent AI from performing high-risk actions without contextual verification.
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Custom Tool APIs → Secure bespoke tools and third-party services with per-call risk policies.
How it works: The APIDynamics proxy inspects every AI-triggered API call. Safe actions are seamless. Risky calls return a 401 + txid challenge, requiring step-up authentication. Tokens are bound to the agent, preventing replay.
Observability, Insights & SIEM
APIDynamics delivers more than logs — it provides API Insights that help teams see, score, and stop risks before they escalate.
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APIDynamics Insights → Detect shadow APIs, track unused or risky endpoints, and spot unusual data flows. Continuously monitor for sensitive data exposure across internal, external, and third-party APIs.
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Splunk, Elastic, Datadog, Chronicle → Stream logs, txid, anomalies, and risk scores into your observability stack.
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SOC/SIEM → Enrich alerts with policy decisions, MFA outcomes, and contextual risk details, improving triage speed.
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Compliance Reporting → Automated mapping for PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX, GDPR with per-call audit trails.
How it works: Each API call generates audit-ready telemetry — action, identity, data type, policy, txid, outcome, and risk score — fed into Insights and your SIEM for full lifecycle visibility.
Consistency
One Zero Trust engine spanning identity, APIs, SaaS, cloud, and AI
Zero Trust everywhere
Enforce least privilege at every layer.
No-code adoption
Deploy at proxy/mesh/gateway level — no rewrites required.
Future-proof
Secure not only today’s APIs, but also the AI-driven workflows shaping tomorrow.