Security category

Application & API Security

Secure code, pipelines, and APIs from development through production runtime.

What this category includes

  • Discovery and inventory of the assets, identities, or data in scope
  • Policy and control enforcement aligned to your risk appetite
  • Detection, prioritization, and response workflows
  • Reporting and evidence for audit and executive stakeholders
  • Integration with your existing security and IT stack

Why it matters now

Buying pressure in this category is rising as environments change faster than control coverage. Teams that define requirements before engaging vendors move faster and negotiate from a stronger position.

Common buyer triggers

  • An audit finding or regulatory deadline
  • A security incident or near miss
  • Tool consolidation or renewal pressure
  • A major platform, cloud, or AI adoption program
  • Headcount constraints driving automation or managed coverage

Key capabilities to evaluate

  • Coverage breadth across your actual environment, not the demo environment
  • Accuracy and tuning effort in the first 90 days
  • Workflow fit with your ticketing and ownership model
  • Deployment effort and time to first measurable value
  • Commercial model that scales predictably with growth

Questions to ask vendors

  • What does a realistic 90-day rollout look like for an organization our size?
  • Which of these capabilities are generally available today versus on the roadmap?
  • How is pricing metered, and what causes it to increase?
  • What do we lose if we leave — and how portable is our data and configuration?

Featured vendors

Capital Security and Risk Group logo

Capital Security and Risk Group

Application & API Security

We operate as a true attacker whose goal would be to disrupt your business operations.

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EstablishedPenetration Testing - Pen TestingPenetration Testing
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ExtraHop

Application & API Security

We could use all the traditional buzzwords to tell you why we’re the best security company ever.

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EstablishedNetwork Detection & ResponseIT Management
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Lares logo

Lares

Application & API Security

Lares is a security consulting firm that helps companies secure electronic, physical, intellectual, and financial assets through a unique blend of assessment, testing and coaching.

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EstablishedPenetration Testing - Pen TestingPenetration Testing
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Noname Security

Application & API Security

The Noname API Security Platform is the only solution to proactively secure your environment from API security vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, design flaws, and provides API attack protection with automated detection…

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EstablishedAPI Security
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Rapid7

Application & API Security

Organizations around the globe rely on Rapid7 technology, services, and research to securely advance.

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EstablishedSecurity Information and Event Management (SIEM)Information Security
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TrustedSec

Application & API Security

TrustedSec is an information security consulting team at the forefront of attack simulations with a focus on strategic risk-management.

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EstablishedPenetration Testing - Pen TestingIT Security Consulting
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White Oak Security

Application & API Security

White Oak Security is your security partner - acting as a trusted advisor and helping your organization understand your risks and vulnerabilities; whether in software, infrastructure, people, or process.

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EstablishedPenetration Testing - Pen TestingPenetration Assessment
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Neosec

Application & API Security

Neosec is reinventing application security and is the intelligent way to protect your APIs from business abuse and data theft.

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EstablishedAPI Security
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Salt Security

Application & API Security

Salt Security delivers an API Threat Protection solution focused on securing the ubiquitous APIs connecting everything from web and mobile applications to microservices and IoT devices.

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EstablishedAPI Security
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Bishop Fox

Application & API Security

Bishop Fox is recognized as the leading authority in offensive security, providing solutions ranging from continuous penetration testing, red teaming, and attack surface management to product, cloud, and application secu…

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EstablishedPentestPentest - Penetration Testing
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Searchlight Cyber

Application & API Security

We provide organizations with relevant and actionable dark web threat intelligence to help them identify and prevent criminal activity.

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EstablishedDark Web MonitoringDark Web Investigation
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Infinite Blue

Application & API Security

Infinite Blue empowers organizations to rapidly build ready and resilient operations and engage personnel across the enterprise.

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EstablishedDisaster RecoveryBusiness Continuity
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Miggo

Application & API Security

Miggo — Application Detection and Response.

EstablishedApplication Detection and ResponseApp Detection and Response
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Vercara

Application & API Security

With Vercara's purpose-built, global cloud security platform, businesses can safeguard their online presence from any attack, regardless of where it comes from.

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EstablishedDDoS Attack ProtectionDNS Security
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OX Security

Application & API Security

OX Security is unifying AppSec practices with its pioneering Active ASPM platform, enabling users to prevent risks by providing visibility and traceability, contextualized prioritization, and automated response throughou…

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EstablishedApplication SecurityAppSec Posture Management - ASPM
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Traceable

Application & API Security

Traceable is the industry’s leading API Security company that helps organizations achieve API visibility and attack protection in a cloud-first, API-driven world.

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EstablishedAPI Security
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Prompt Security

Application & API Security

The Complete Platform for Generative AI Security Prompt Security enables enterprises to benefit from the adoption of Generative AI while protecting from the full range of risks to their applications, employees and custom…

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EstablishedA.I. SecurityGenAI Security
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Dazz

Application & API Security

Dazz delivers unified security remediation for fast-moving security and development teams.

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EstablishedApplication Security Posture Management - ASPMApplication Security - AppSec
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ActiveState

Application & API Security

ActiveState enables DevOps, InfoSec, and Development teams to improve their security posture while simultaneously increasing productivity and innovation to deliver secure applications faster.

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EstablishedApplication Security - AppSecOpen Source Security
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Cribl

Application & API Security

Cribl, the Data Engine for IT and Security, empowers organizations to transform their data strategy.

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EstablishedObservability ManagementSIEM Cost Reduction
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Wallarm

Application & API Security

APIs – the driving force behind AI-based innovation, modern applications, and cloud infrastructure – are the #1 attack vector for cybercriminals.

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EstablishedAPI SecurityWeb Application and API Protection - WAAP
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