Securing APIs is a complex challenge, requiring best practices, vulnerability assessments, and robust solutions. Today, we’re excited to announce a major enhancement to your API security toolkit: Traceable’s contextual API security capabilities are now an integral part of Axway’s Amplify Platform. This integration transforms Amplify into a comprehensive solution for Business, IT, and Security teams.
By combining Amplify and Traceable, organizations can establish end-to-end security and compliance programs that cover the entire API lifecycle.
Read on to explore how Traceable provides enterprise-scale API security, how the integration functions, and why this addition makes Amplify Engage (formerly Amplify Enterprise Marketplace) the most powerful API governance solution available—regardless of where your APIs are hosted or what API style you use.
The Growing Risk of Unmanaged APIs
Many enterprises face significant security risks due to unmanaged APIs, commonly known as shadow APIs, zombie APIs, or legacy assets. These unsecured APIs represent one of the largest attack vectors, often remaining undetected within an organization.
Our 2024 State of Enterprise API Maturity Report highlights the scale of this issue:
- 78% of enterprise decision-makers don’t know how many APIs exist in their IT ecosystem.
- 74% report that more than 20% of their APIs are unmanaged.
Unmanaged APIs pose a major threat, making it critical for organizations to discover and secure them before cyber attackers exploit these vulnerabilities.
How Traceable Strengthens API Security in Amplify
The new integration of Traceable into Amplify provides a robust solution to these challenges. With Amplify’s Traceable agent, organizations gain visibility into API traffic, leveraging Traceable’s ability to capture, correlate, and analyze API-related activities across their ecosystem. This powerful data-driven approach delivers contextual API security like never before.
Unlike other API management vendors that offer similar capabilities through third-party integrations, Axway has made these enhanced security features a native part of the Amplify Platform through a strategic partnership with Traceable.
Key Capabilities of Traceable in Amplify
By integrating Traceable, Amplify enhances security with:
- Continuous API Discovery (identifying unmanaged, internal, external, third-party, generative AI, and partner APIs)
- Automatic API Risk Scoring (detecting and scoring shadow APIs)
- Auto-Creation and Publishing of Runtime API Specs
- Conformance Analysis (API Linting)
- Sensitive Data Flow Discovery, Tracing, and Exposure Detection
Additionally, Traceable can be deployed across various API endpoints to analyze even encrypted traffic, ensuring comprehensive security.
The integration enables Axway customers to rapidly gain control over their unmanaged APIs by correlating API traffic with known endpoints across managed environments within Amplify.
Strengthening API Security and Governance
As enterprises scale their API usage, managing and securing these endpoints becomes more complex and critical. The combined capabilities of Amplify and Traceable address this need effectively:
- Amplify facilitates seamless API management and governance.
- Traceable adds a powerful layer of API security and threat detection.
This integration offers significant value for businesses at every stage of their API journey. Our API maturity survey found that 95% of respondents agree that a centralized API catalog would improve API governance—a need directly addressed by this enhanced solution.
Key Benefits of the Integration:
- Accelerated time to value by mapping runtime traffic against managed APIs, identifying outliers (unmanaged APIs).
- Prioritization of API remediation based on traffic patterns and risk assessments.
- Continuous monitoring and improvement with an iterative approach to API security.
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Take Control of Your API Security Today
With Amplify Engage, organizations gain the most comprehensive solution for API governance, regardless of where their APIs are hosted or what style they use. Enhanced API insights also provide Business and IT teams with a clearer view of API performance and security, leading to stronger enterprise-wide alignment and optimization.
Get started with configuring the Traceable agent in Amplify today and take the next step in securing your API ecosystem.
About DT Asia
DT Asia began in 2007 with a clear mission to build the market entry for various pioneering IT security solutions from the US, Europe and Israel.
Today, DT Asia is a regional, value-added distributor of cybersecurity solutions providing cutting-edge technologies to key government organisations and top private sector clients including global banks and Fortune 500 companies. We have offices and partners around the Asia Pacific to better understand the markets and deliver localised solutions.
How we help
If you need to know more about how to secure APIs: start by eliminating the unmanaged risks to your organization, you’re in the right place, we’re here to help! DTA is Axway’s distributor, especially in Singapore and Asia, our technicians have deep experience on the product and relevant technologies you can always trust, we provide this product’s turnkey solutions, including consultation, deployment, and maintenance service.
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