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What is Akto?

API Security • DAST • Akto Atlas • Akto Argus • Join Discord Community

Akto is a unified Agentic AI, MCP, and API security platform built to secure autonomous AI workflows and modern APIs in production.

Akto has two major security pillars:

• Agentic AI Security
• API Security

🤖 Agentic AI Security

Akto also secures Agentic AI systems, where AI agents interact with tools, APIs, users, and internal systems.

Agentic AI Security in Akto has two distinct products:

Akto Atlas

Agentic AI Security for Employee Endpoints

• Secures AI agents used by employees
• Protects internal tools, SaaS actions, and AI-driven workflows
• Prevents data leakage, prompt abuse, and unsafe agent actions

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Akto Argus

Agentic AI Security for Homegrown AI

• Secures internally built AI agents and LLM workflows
• Monitors agent decisions, tool usage, and execution paths
• Detects:
  • Prompt injection
  • Privilege misuse
  • Unsafe autonomous actions

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🔐 API Security

Akto’s API Security platform helps teams discover, test, and monitor APIs continuously using real traffic and dynamic analysis.

It consists of two tightly integrated components:

API Security

Discovery & Runtime

• Automatically discover APIs from live traffic
• Maintain a continuously updated API inventory
• Detect:
  • Shadow and undocumented APIs
  • Sensitive data exposure
  • Authorization and authentication issues at runtime
• Observe how APIs are actually used in production

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DAST

Dynamic API Security Testing

• Context-aware testing using observed API behavior
• Covers OWASP API Top 10 + business logic vulnerabilities
• Supports:
  • Manual test runs
  • Scheduled scans
  • CI/CD execution
• Extremely low false positives

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Scope of This Documentation

This documentation site only covers: API Security & DAST

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