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Imperva API Security

Imperva API Security manages API discovery, risk assessment, threat detection, and mitigation in a console for cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.

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#6 of 37
Score
6.5
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What Imperva API Security is

Imperva API Security manages API discovery, risk assessment, threat detection, and mitigation in a console for cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. It continuously finds and monitors public, private, and shadow APIs, tracks changes, and identifies design flaws and vulnerabilities. Ongoing assessments address risks associated with the OWASP API Security Top 10. Its machine-learning-driven BOLA detection profiles traffic, identifies behavioral deviations, and can block Broken Object Level Authorization exploits. API Security Testing scans uploaded API specifications for posture gaps, design flaws, configuration weaknesses, and risky endpoints. Deployment choices include cloud-managed or self-managed management and agent-based or agentless setups. Integrations include Kong, Mulesoft, Azure APIM, Apigee, and F5. The product can classify APIs by sensitive-data categories such as government ID, payment-card details, addresses, and other personally identifiable information. Used with Imperva’s application security platform, it protects against nine OWASP API Top Ten risks; Unsafe Consumption of APIs is the exception. A 30-day trial may be limited to 100 Mbps, and traffic exceeding that threshold may be null-routed. Pricing is available on request.

Good

  • Discovers public, private, and shadow APIs.
  • Can block BOLA exploits.
  • Scans API specifications for design and configuration gaps.
  • Offers cloud-managed and self-managed options.

Watch out

  • Pricing is available on request.
  • Trial may be limited to 100 Mbps.
  • Unsafe Consumption of APIs is outside stated OWASP coverage.

Who it suits

It suits organizations needing API discovery, assessment, and protection across cloud, on-premises, or hybrid environments. The listed enterprise customer base includes banks, financial-services firms, telecom providers, and Fortune 100 companies.

Verdict

Imperva API Security combines API discovery, risk assessment, testing, and mitigation, with multiple deployment choices and listed integrations. Check the trial’s bandwidth limit and request commercial details before deciding.

Plans and prices

From Imperva API Security's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2026.

All about pricing
PlanPriceWhat it gives you
Free trialFreeCloud WAF, DDoS, Bot Protection and CDN included · trial bandwidth may be limited to 100 Mbps · 30 days
Imperva API SecurityPriced on requestEnterprise API security; Cloud WAF add-on or API Security Anywhere · Contact sales

The facts

Each one read from Imperva API Security's own pages, with the date it was checked.

What it does

API classification
It classifies APIs and sensitive data such as government IDs, payment-card data, addresses and other PII.checked 15 Oct 2026
API discovery
The service continuously discovers public, private, undocumented and shadow APIs and keeps an inventory current.checked 15 Oct 2026
API documentation scope
The public API documentation covers account and service management, policy updates, monitoring, audit retrieval, alerting integrations, users, API keys and subscription metrics.checked 15 Oct 2026
API testing
API Security Testing scans uploaded API specifications, ranks posture and configuration issues by severity, and supplies developer fixes.checked 15 Oct 2026
API verification
API verification assesses specifications and generates targeted fuzzing tests based on discovered API behavior.checked 15 Oct 2026
BOLA protection
Its ML-driven BOLA Detection and Response profiles traffic, detects behavioral deviations, and can block Broken Object Level Authorization exploits.checked 1 Oct 2026
BOLA response
ML-based behavioral profiling can detect and automatically block Broken Object Level Authorization attacks in real time.checked 15 Oct 2026
Bot integration
Sensitive or abuse-prone APIs can be sent to Imperva Advanced Bot Protection for automated-threat mitigation.checked 15 Oct 2026
Bot protection
Imperva API Security integrates with Advanced Bot Protection to identify sensitive APIs, detect bot attacks, and apply tailored mitigation policies.checked 1 Oct 2026
Business-logic protection
Hybrid behavioral and rule engines score anomalies and identify business-logic abuse, including BOLA.checked 15 Oct 2026
Core licensing
An independent product comparison describes Imperva API Security as proprietary rather than open source.checked 15 Oct 2026
Deployment choices
Customers can use cloud-managed or self-managed local-console deployment, with agent-based or agentless options.checked 15 Oct 2026
Deployment options
Deployment options include cloud-managed or self-managed management, plus agent-based or agentless setups for cloud WAF, microservices, encrypted applications, and network-layer monitoring.checked 1 Oct 2026
Deployment topologies
The product supports cloud WAF, microservices, encrypted applications, network monitoring, Kubernetes sensors, sidecar sniffers and standalone network sniffers.checked 15 Oct 2026
Documentation portal
Imperva maintains a searchable documentation portal and a separate Thales-hosted API reference library.checked 15 Oct 2026
Integrations
Named integrations include Kong, Mulesoft, Azure API Management, Apigee and F5.checked 15 Oct 2026
Intended customers
Imperva says its solutions serve 6,200-plus enterprise customers in 150 countries, including major banks, financial-services firms, telecom providers, and Fortune 100 companies.checked 1 Oct 2026
Limit: complex architectures
A Gartner review says the product can focus on edge inventory and lack deep detection and protection for complex API architectures.checked 15 Oct 2026
Limit: customization and reporting
G2 feedback requests more custom-policy options and notes that security-event reports can be emailed but not downloaded.checked 15 Oct 2026

The company

Company ownership
Thales agreed in July 2023 to acquire 100% of Imperva from Thoma Bravo for a $3.6 billion enterprise value; completion was announced in December 2023.checked 15 Oct 2026
Company size
LinkedIn lists Imperva as a privately held Thales company with 10,001-plus employees and Austin, Texas headquarters.checked 15 Oct 2026
Founded
Imperva, Inc. was incorporated in April 2002.checked 15 Oct 2026
Headquarters
Redwood Shores, California, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026

Money

Free-trial limit
The 30-day trial may be limited to 100 Mbps bandwidth, with traffic above that threshold potentially null-routed.checked 1 Oct 2026

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