Akto is all set to establish a new standard in API protection with advanced gRPC security features at the Black Hat USA 2024. This is an important update in the current context more than one-fifth of the world’s applications run on gRPC APIs. The new security features will solve the complex challenges of conducting automated testing for gRPC.
What is gRPC Security?
gRPC is the acronym for Google Remote Procedure Calls. gRPC security is an important protocol in the mobile app DevOps industry. Security teams use gRPC security protocols to streamline gRPC APIs for swifter and robust data exchange between services. These focus on the core protection of sensitive data and prevention of data loss to the outside world. Securing modern mobile APIs such as gRPC API poses massive threats to the AppSec teams, even as 95% of these teams encounter serious problems in product-ready APIs.
Akto’s latest push to include Left Shift API to the gRPC security could solve the problem for SecOps teams.
Let’s learn how.
Building upon its recognition as a Representative Vendor in the 2024 Gartner® Market Guide for API Protection, Akto offers unparalleled visibility and control over gRPC APIs, a critical component of modern application architectures.
By integrating gRPC-specific monitoring and testing capabilities into its platform, Akto empowers security teams to identify and mitigate risks associated with this complex protocol. This latest enhancement solidifies Akto’s position as the most comprehensive API security solution.
With this new announcement at the Black Hat 2024, Akto is expanding its API coverage to REST, GraphQL, SPAP, JSON, and gRPC.
Ankita Gupta, CEO of Akto said, “We are thrilled to launch our industry-leading gRPC API security capabilities at Black Hat 2024. These innovations reflect our commitment to pushing the boundaries of API security and providing our clients with the most advanced, comprehensive, and Enterprise-grade API Security solutions available.”
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Recognizing the unique vulnerabilities inherent in gRPC, Akto has developed specialized test templates to identify and address these risks. By capturing gRPC traffic over HTTP/2, Akto offers unparalleled visibility and control over this critical API protocol. This latest enhancement underscores Akto’s commitment to providing the most comprehensive API security solution for AppSec teams, safeguarding organizations against different cyber threats.
Akto team is presenting a session on “Open Source LLM Security” at the Black Hat 2024 cybertechnology conference.
