Snyk Supercharges API Discovery with New Akamai Integration

Today, Snyk is launching a powerful enhancement to our API discovery capabilities through a strategic partnership with Akamai. This integration is designed to solve one of the most significant challenges in modern application security: the difficulty of providing API schemas for DAST scanning. By directly ingesting API inventories and their corresponding schemas from Akamai, we are transforming a difficult manual process into a seamless, automated workflow within the Snyk platform. 

Bridging discovery and scanning by streamlining API security testing 

Effective API security is built on four pillars: discovery, posture management, runtime protection, and crucially, API testing. For security testing to be effective, especially in dynamic and complex environments, accurate API specifications are essential. For many organizations, creating and maintaining these specs is a manual endeavor and a significant operational burden. That's where this integration comes in.

The scanner's dilemma is that to effectively scan an API, a DAST engine requires its schema (e.g., an OpenAPI specification). For enterprise customers with hundreds or thousands of APIs, manually locating, maintaining, and uploading these schemas is a massive operational bottleneck that leaves a significant portion of their attack surface unscanned and unprotected. 

Snyk helps teams test APIs, but discovery can remain a challenge in complex environments. That’s why Snyk partnered with Akamai, whose market-leading discovery capabilities span internal and external APIs through traffic analysis (CDNs, WAFs, gateways), source code inspection, and schema inference, giving teams unmatched visibility into their entire API footprint. This new integration allows Snyk to ingest the comprehensive API inventory and schema intelligence surfaced by Akamai. 

The full API inventory and corresponding schemas are incorporated directly into Snyk API & Web's list of scannable assets, transforming what would otherwise be a difficult manual process into a seamless workflow.

Joint customers can now see their Akamai-discovered APIs appear within their Snyk API & Web inventory, with schemas attached. From there, adding an API as a scannable target is as simple as a single click, with no need to manually hunt for and upload specification files. 

Benefits for Snyk and Akamai Customers 

• Snyk customers can now drastically increase their API scan coverage by using Akamai’s comprehensive API and schema discovery in tandem with Snyk’s API & Web solution. They can also easily test APIs that were previously too difficult to configure, ensuring your entire API portfolio is protected by Snyk's developer-friendly and highly accurate DAST engine.

• Akamai customers can now use Snyk’s developer-friendly API & Web DAST engine to proactively test and remediate vulnerabilities earlier in the development lifecycle. This integration adds flexibility by allowing teams to extend testing workflows using familiar tools, while continuing to benefit from Akamai’s holistic approach to API discovery, security posture management, and runtime protection.

“As APIs expand across cloud-native and distributed environments, organizations need a way to continuously discover, test, and protect them. This integration helps customers accelerate that process by combining Akamai’s deep API security intelligence with Snyk’s developer-centric platform,” said Giora Engel, VP Business Development & Product Strategy at Akamai. “Together, we’re giving security and development teams a flexible, integrated approach to reduce risk without slowing innovation.”

Black Hat 2025 

We are excited to officially launch this integration at Black Hat 2025. The solution is available to joint Snyk Enterprise and Akamai API Security customers.

This partnership represents Snyk's commitment to solving real-world customer bottlenecks through smart integrations. By enriching Snyk's discovery capabilities with critical data from Akamai, we are empowering security and development teams to protect their applications more completely and efficiently than ever before. 

To learn more about how you can leverage this integration, get in touch with us today or visit us at our Black Hat booth for a quick demo.