
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.
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.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free trial | Free | Cloud WAF, DDoS, Bot Protection and CDN included · trial bandwidth may be limited to 100 Mbps · 30 days |
| Imperva API Security | Priced on request | Enterprise 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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