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APIs (application programming interfaces) allow applications to communicate with each other, a critically important function in the digital age. Their importance also makes them an attractive target for cyber criminals — according to Akamai, API and application attacks tripled last year.
API security tools help protect the integrity of APIs and keep them safe from common attack vectors like local file inclusion (LFI), cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection (SQLi). We analyzed the API security market to arrive at this list of the top API security tools, followed some considerations for potential buyers.
The top API security tools:
Top API Security Tools Compared
| Criteria | Wallarm API Security Platform | StackHawk | Beagle Security | Salt Security | Reblaze | API Discovery and Security Management Platform | Google Apigee Sense | Nevatech Sentinet |
| Comprehensive Security Features | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Ease of Integration | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Scalability | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| User-Friendliness | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | X |
