Cequence recently unveiled several enhancements powered by machine learning for its Unified API Protection (UAP) platform, marking a significant step forward in API security. These upgrades, introduced at the RSA Conference, introduce cutting-edge ML-based security features designed to help organizations safeguard their digital assets in the era of AI.
In today’s digital ecosystem, where APIs play a crucial role in numerous applications and services, the need for robust security measures has never been more pressing. Cequence’s latest advancements in its UAP product suite represent a major evolution in API security, offering unmatched visibility, streamlined testing, and autonomous threat mitigation capabilities.
The upgraded solutions empower organizations to proactively protect their API infrastructure with confidence. Cequence’s offerings automate the detection of API management status, customize security testing to align with specific business requirements, and leverage ML-driven threat detection and mitigation. By equipping businesses with these tools, Cequence enables them to stay ahead of emerging threats, guarding against data breaches and business interruptions. These enhancements are set to redefine API security standards and are essential for any organization dedicated to safeguarding digital assets.
The recent enhancements to Cequence’s platform enhance:
Automated Threat Detection and Mitigation
— Automatic Rule, Model & Policy Generation: By utilizing ML capabilities, the system can automatically identify abnormal or malicious traffic patterns, generating rules, models, and policies for immediate threat mitigation.
— Efficient ML-Aided Response: The ML-aided response system significantly reduces the workload for analysts by automating tasks, resulting in up to 90% faster data processing, thereby enhancing overall efficiency.
— Enhanced Parallel Threat Hunting: The system facilitates simultaneous threat hunting activities across multiple API endpoints, accelerating the detection and mitigation process.
Customized API Discovery
— Automated API Management Identification: Spyder can automatically detect API hosts managed by vendors like MuleSoft, Apigee, and AWS API Gateway, offering real-time insights into the API ecosystem management status without the need for deployment or configuration changes.
— Tailored API Definitions: Organizations can customize API definitions to suit their specific usage and requirements, ensuring the accurate categorization and protection of critical APIs.
— Personalized Precision Discovery Algorithm: Organizations can tailor the discovery algorithm to pinpoint API hosts of interest, simplifying the threat detection and response processes.
Bespoke API Security Testing
— Tailor-Made API Security Test Plans: Sentinel enables the creation of customized API security test plans tailored to unique business needs, optimizing security testing efforts.
— Flexible Authentication Profiles: Authentication profiles can be configured to test APIs using multiple user personas and privileges, ensuring comprehensive security validation across varied user scenarios.
— Adaptive Test Cases: Test cases can be customized to generate different attack traffic profiles per API group, adapting testing strategies to diverse threat scenarios and bolstering overall security posture.
