What is Akto?

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Akto is a unified Agentic AI, MCP, and API security platform built to secure autonomous AI workflows and modern APIs in production.

Akto has two major security pillars:

• Agentic AI Security

• API Security

🤖 Agentic AI Security

Akto also secures Agentic AI systems, where AI agents interact with tools, APIs, users, and internal systems.

Agentic AI Security in Akto has two distinct products:

Akto Atlas

Agentic AI Security for Employee Endpoints

• Secures AI agents used by employees

• Protects internal tools, SaaS actions, and AI-driven workflows

• Prevents data leakage, prompt abuse, and unsafe agent actions

📘 Start here: Akto Altas

Akto Argus

Agentic AI Security for Homegrown AI

• Secures internally built AI agents and LLM workflows

• Monitors agent decisions, tool usage, and execution paths

• Detects:

  • Prompt injection

  • Privilege misuse

  • Unsafe autonomous actions

📘 Start here: Akto Argus

🔐 API Security

Akto’s API Security platform helps teams discover, test, and monitor APIs continuously using real traffic and dynamic analysis.

It consists of two tightly integrated components:

API Security

Discovery & Runtime

• Automatically discover APIs from live traffic

• Maintain a continuously updated API inventory

• Detect:

  • Shadow and undocumented APIs

  • Sensitive data exposure

  • Authorization and authentication issues at runtime

• Observe how APIs are actually used in production

📘 Start here: Getting Started with API Security

DAST

Dynamic API Security Testing

• Context-aware testing using observed API behavior

• Covers OWASP API Top 10 + business logic vulnerabilities

• Supports:

  • Manual test runs

  • Scheduled scans

  • CI/CD execution

• Extremely low false positives

📘 Start here: Getting Started with DAST

Scope of This Documentation

This documentation site only covers: API Security & DAST

For Agentic AI Security, refer to the AI Security documentation portal