Cequence provides a unified platform for API security and bot management, leveraging AI and machine learning to discover, monitor, and protect APIs and applications from a wide range of threats, including those targeting sensitive data, business logic, and compliance. The solution integrates with existing infrastructure and offers flexible deployment options, including SaaS, cloud, datacenter, and hybrid environments. Cequence also delivers managed services for organizations seeking operational support and advanced threat protection.

Key Features

API Discovery & Inventory Automatically discovers internal, external, and third-party APIs and infrastructure.

• Maintains a complete runtime API inventory.
• Integrates with API gateways, proxies, load balancers, and ingress controllers.

Risk Assessment & Compliance Assesses APIs for coding errors, compliance violations, and security risks.

• Predefined and custom risk assessment rules.
• Embedded alerting for remediation tasks.

Sensitive Data Detection & Masking Identifies and protects sensitive data exposed via APIs.

• ML-based sensitive data discovery.
• Automatic data masking to prevent unauthorized disclosure.

Automated Threat Detection & Mitigation Uses ML and behavioral analysis to detect and respond to threats in real time.

• Blocks, rate-limits, geo-fences, and deceives attackers.
• Reduces mean time to response by up to 90%.

Bot Management Detects and mitigates malicious bots without client-side integration.

• Network-based behavioral fingerprinting.
• No need for CAPTCHAs or SDKs.

API Security Testing Automates security testing using generative AI.

• Creates OpenAPI specs and custom test plans.
• Supports bespoke test cases and authentication profiles.

Integration & Deployment Flexible integration and deployment options.

• Works with over 300 applications (e.g., ServiceNow, Jira, Slack).
• Supports SaaS, cloud, datacenter, and hybrid deployments.

Role-Based Access Control Enterprise SSO integration for secure access management.

• Supports Okta, Azure AD, and other providers1.

Benefits

Comprehensive API Protection Secures APIs across their lifecycle against a broad spectrum of threats.

• Reduces risk of data loss, fraud, and compliance violations.
• Protects both legacy and modern cloud-native architectures.

Operational Efficiency Automates threat detection, mitigation, and compliance workflows.

• Decreases manual intervention and response times.
• Streamlines incident response and remediation.

Reduced Customer Friction Protects applications and APIs without impacting end-user experience.

• No application modification or third-party code required.
• Eliminates the need for CAPTCHAs or intrusive security measures.

Future-Proof Security Adapts to evolving threats, including AI-driven attacks.

• ML and AI innovations ensure resilience against new attack vectors.
• Protects both organizational and agentic AI use