Today, we’re excited to introduce a new powerful capability in Akto that allows modern AppSec teams to automatically detect API security vulnerabilities in code using an advanced AI Agent.

Now, once Akto identifies APIs from your source code, it uses an advanced AI Agent to instantly uncover critical API vulnerabilities, including authentication flaws and session management gaps highlighted in the OWASP Top 10. This allows your team to secure APIs faster, earlier, and with greater accuracy.

We built this feature because we understand how challenging traditional API vulnerability detection can be. Many security teams rely heavily on manual code reviews, which are slow and prone to human error. Manual processes often miss important security gaps, slow development cycles, and increase friction between developers and security teams. By introducing an intelligent AI Agent, Akto delivers faster and automated API vulnerability detection in code, eliminating these frustrations.

Why This Matters?

In modern application development, vulnerabilities rarely come from isolated mistakes. Critical issues are often buried deep within authentication flows or session management logic. An API might appear secure, yet overlooked security checks in the source code can open entry points for attackers.

Detecting these issues manually can be challenging and time-consuming, requiring teams to build deep context around authentication flows and session management. By the time a vulnerability is discovered, the risk is already in production.

With Akto’s new automated source-code-based API vulnerability detection powered by an AI Agent, your team can proactively detect these vulnerabilities early, without waiting for manual reviews or involving complex workflows. This allows faster, simpler, and more accurate remediation.

Here’s what this means for modern AppSec teams:

• Early Detection: Akto’s AI Agent automatically navigates your backend codebase, identifies APIs, and clearly understands how authentication and session management are implemented.

• Built-in OWASP Checks: Akto instantly verifies whether your APIs follow OWASP Top 10 guidelines. Any gaps in authentication or session handling are immediately flagged as vulnerabilities.

• Rapid Remediation: Akto provides clear, actionable insights that show exactly which APIs contain vulnerabilities, simplifying your team’s remediation workflow.

How Akto Finds API Vulnerabilities from Your Source Code

Once Akto identifies your APIs through source code analysis, the AI Agent automatically performs a detailed vulnerability scan of your backend codebase. First, Akto identifies directories within your codebase, then detects your programming language and framework, which allows it to accurately understand how your application manages authentication—whether cookie-based sessions, JWT, or other authentication mechanisms—and how sessions are handled within your framework.

It then automatically verifies whether each API endpoint correctly enforces these critical security rules. If APIs don’t properly validate authentication or session logic, Akto instantly flags these as vulnerabilities.

What This Means for Your Team

• Immediate visibility: Quickly identify API vulnerabilities at the earliest possible stage of development.

• Precision and clarity: Trace vulnerabilities directly to specific APIs, authentication methods, and session management implementations.

• Reduced friction: Clearly defined security ownership ensures fewer delays, simpler workflows, and improved collaboration between security and development teams.

Deepening Your Proactive API Security

At Akto, our mission is to simplify API security. This new capability deepens your proactive security, directly embedding an intelligent AI Agent into your CI/CD pipeline. It removes uncertainty, eliminates tedious manual reviews, and ensures your APIs are secure from the start.

We built this because we understand the everyday challenges modern AppSec teams face. Late, slow, and manual security processes are no longer acceptable. With Akto, you get automatic, clear, and early visibility into API vulnerabilities, helping your team secure APIs efficiently and effectively.

We're excited for you to experience it. Ready to catch API vulnerabilities at the source?

Request a demo now.

Join us for the product launch week webinar this Friday, March 28, and catch a live demo of the features introduced during the week.