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We Launched APIDynamics: Adaptive Authentication & MFA for Every API Call

#apisecurity #devsecops #zerotrust

In today’s world of AI agents, distributed microservices, and SaaS-to-SaaS automation, APIs are doing a lot more heavy lifting than they used to. But most of the time, they're still secured like it's 2015 — static tokens, long-lived credentials, and almost no context-awareness.

As someone who helped build identity governance products at scale (👋🏽 hello from SecurEnds), I kept seeing the same problem surface in customer conversations with CISOs, CTOs, and DevSecOps leaders:

“We’ve nailed human identity. But machine-to-machine? It’s the Wild West.”

So we built something new. Something API-first. Something real-time.

Introducing APIDynamics.

🚀 What Is APIDynamics?
APIDynamics is a lightweight, adaptive API security platform that protects every API call — including machine-to-machine, AI agent, and autonomous workflows.

We combine:

🔍 API Discovery — find shadow & zombie APIs

⚠️ Real-Time Risk Scoring — evaluate every API call's behavior

🔐 Adaptive MFA — apply just-in-time challenges

💡 Zero Trust Enforcement — don’t implicitly trust any call

🤝 Dev-Friendly Integration — deploy without breaking pipelines

🤖 Why Machine Identities Are Broken
Let’s say your AI agent calls an MCP (multi-component processing) server to:

  • Start a production workload
  • Modify financial logic
  • Access sensitive records
  • This is almost always authenticated with:
  • A static API key, or
  • A long-lived OAuth token

That token could live for weeks or months. If it’s ever leaked in logs, code, or config? 💥 Game over.

No session. No context. No adaptive response.

This violates everything Zero Trust stands for.

🔄 What We Do Differently
Every API call is run through our adaptive engine:

  1. Evaluate behavior: IP, agent, endpoint, frequency, etc.
  2. Assign a real-time risk score.
  3. Apply policy:

✅ Low risk → allow
🔐 Medium risk → challenge with MFA
❌ High risk → block, alert, or isolate

Yes — even non-human actors like services or agents can perform MFA:

  • SDKs to generate codes
  • Challenge tokens via API
  • Smart retry logic

🔧 Devs, This Is for You
You shouldn’t need to rewrite your apps to get secure.

APIDynamics integrates cleanly into your pipelines:

  • Works with existing API gateways
  • Minimal config
  • No friction for valid calls
  • Flexible policy control (YAML or UI)

Security that doesn’t slow down shipping? ✅

🎯 Who Is It For?

  • Cloud-native dev teams dealing with AI agents or serverless
  • Security engineers looking to apply Zero Trust to APIs
  • CISOs who want to stop token sprawl
  • API architects trying to secure machine-to-machine workflows
  • Anyone burned by a leaked API key 👀

🧪 Want to Try It?
We’re offering early access to developers and security teams now.
You can:

👉 Explore the platform https://www.apidynamics.com

📰 Read the full press release https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/apidynamics-launches-to-redefine-api-security-with-adaptive-mfa-real-time-risk-scoring-and-zero-trust-enforcement-302505785.html

📥 Request early access https://developer.apidynamics.sevenhills.ai/register

💬 Final Thought
APIs are the new front door — and the back door — to your company.

Let’s stop trusting them blindly.

Let’s build the API security foundation we actually need for AI-native, cloud-native architectures.

Let’s build APIDynamics.

Thanks for reading — and we’d love your feedback.
Drop us a line at info@apidynamics.com, or join the early access program to shape what we’re building next.

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