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Akto Demo - Findings
View all test results and easily download detailed reports.
Akto Demo - API Discovery
Continuously discover your complete API attack surface across 1000s of apps - Internal, Public and Third Party APIs, sensitive, zombie and shadow APIs, login APIs, password APIs, REST, GraphQL, gRPC APIs
Akto Demo - API Traffic Connectors
Akto offers over 40 traffic connectors, including AWS Traffic Mirroring, GCP, Kubernetes DaemonSet, and various API Gateways, ensuring seamless integration across your infrastructure.
Akto Demo - CI/CD integrations
Run Akto in your CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc., to test APIs for vulnerabilities before release.
Akto Demo - Sensitive Data in APIs
100+ sensitive data types including SSN, Credit Card, email, AWS keys, tokens, payment information. Add your own custom Data Type.
Akto Demo - Test Library and Test Editor Playground
Select from our 350+ built-in API security tests covering OWASP Top 10 or write your own!
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Yash P.
YP
Penetration Tester
Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Best PoC driven Vulnerability detector I've seen till date"
What do you like best about Akto?

- The dashboard is pretty clear and easy to navigate.

- Projects can be managed individually yet in the same panel, unlike Burpsuite I need not change file everytime for a new project.

- PoCs as I mentioned are the best I've observed also the categorisation of vulnerabilities or security risk is done quite well.

- Also the platform has training sessions which is awesome for interns and trainees to be trained initially, from there they can get basic knowledge easy and handy.

- Reports can be exported as well.

- Integrating or I might say Implementing the tool is pretty easy once you explore it completely.

I've used it several times but every time I login I find a new feature !! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akto?

Not actually a disadvantage but akto is a vast tool and has immense details to be looked upon so one might need to spend out a significant amount of time to explore it completely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education
UP
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Powerful, AI-driven API security solution that scales with modern development needs"
What do you like best about Akto?

Akto’s integration of Agentic AI into its API security suite has truly revolutionized our approach to securing APIs. The autonomous AI agents are incredibly efficient—performing API discovery, vulnerability testing, and sensitive data exposure detection at scale and with remarkable speed. The fact that these agents operate with human-like reasoning and adapt over time makes Akto feel more like an extension of our security team than just another tool. I also appreciate how seamlessly Akto integrates with existing DevSecOps pipelines and CI/CD workflows, reducing our manual effort significantly. The scalability and real-time continuous monitoring allow us to stay ahead of threats without extra overhead. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akto?

While Akto is a powerful platform, the learning curve can be slightly steep for teams new to AI-driven security tools. The platform offers extensive capabilities, but some of the more advanced customizations and deployment options require a solid understanding of your API infrastructure. Additionally, while support is responsive, more in-app tutorials or interactive onboarding could make the initial setup experience smoother. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Naveen K.
NK
Senior SecOps Enginner
E-Learning
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Security Testing Tool: All a Pentester Could Hope For"
What do you like best about Akto?

It provides everything a pentester could hope for when conducting security testing, primarily filtering out broken authentication issues when capturing API traffic and it also automatically detects broken access control issues during testing, which usually requires manual effort to find. I really liked the tool.I've had a great experience with Akto. It's packed with all the features you need for penetration testing. Super easy to use and really reliable in finding vulnerabilities. Definitely a must have for anyone into security testing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akto?

I've been using this product for a while and honestly, I can't find anything to dislike. It works

flawlessly and makes my life so much easier. Highly recommend it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sai  L.
SL
Associate Software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Make secure with Akto"
What do you like best about Akto?

Akto Findings , it goes and helps make our endpoints secure by doing all the security checks for apis like interceptor strong/rate limmittor Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akto?

I fell it cant go deeper than that said beside. It would be better if they o deeper and analyse security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vraj S.
VS
Founder
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Good for API but it only covers a small portion of the infosec requirements of a team"
What do you like best about Akto?

The UI is quite clean and from an API perspective it covers everything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akto?

It is only available for API. I know that's the entire moat of the company but we had t odiscontinue it as there are many infosec requirements of a company and we can't have different vendors for everything Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hiren V.
HV
Web Developer
Computer Software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Simple and effective tool for API security"
What do you like best about Akto?

It’s easy to set up and helps me find and fix API issues quickly without much hassle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akto?

Some features take a bit of time to understand at first, especially if you're new to API security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Saurabh J.
SJ
Product Security Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"First hand experience using Akto"
What do you like best about Akto?

The simplicity and the easy-going dashboard really helps in building up your pace to interact with the application's logic quite quickly. It's intutive in nature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akto?

There's nothing to dislike about a security tooling that really helps you to scan your API endpoints and maintain inventory and all of that. However there are areas of improvement in terms of UI/UX which could make the experience even more smoother. The debugging errors could be more technical and detailed. Integrations inside BurpSuite using akto.jar glitches sometimes and reports back API details which have already been excluded from the project settings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

GJ
software tester
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Akto review"
What do you like best about Akto?

I love how easy Akto makes API security testing it works out of the box and fits right into our CI/CD pipeline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akto?

setting up tests can take a bit longer than expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Saurabh Kumar J.
SJ
Senior Security Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Akto Simplifies API Security"
What do you like best about Akto?

The best thing about Akto is it's simple installationm intregration and ease of use.

Akto can be integrated with a blend of tools such as Burp, Postman, Slack, Jira etc. This is the best you can have for a simplfying API security and automation. Moreover, it gives you facility to write custom test cases in YAML which helps you enhance your testing your security posture for organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akto?

There are a bit of customization and configuration requirement while setting up in local environment. But Akto team is very helpful with customer support, they helped me in installation and API scanning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sokvathara L.
SL
DevOps Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"The most sophisticated DAST & API Security for SDLC & DevOps Team"
What do you like best about Akto?

The company has been impressed by Akto's engine, especially in the comparison to other products available in the market. The very outstanding features of Akto are deployment flexibilities, database, and its Microservices integrations. Moreover, the company's requirement is; it has to be deployed on-premise and everything must comply with the regulatory from the management.

Akto's support several API architectures for instance, RESTful API, gRPC, SOAP and GraphQL. And currently, we are only leveraging the RESTful API which is the only our main architecture at the moment. The tool has data connectors, which it captures API traffic in real-time and provides feasible information of the API collections with its hostname. As it integrates into API discovery, for instance API testing for each collection or group or whole API endpoints with its specific hostname. This provides its flexibilities to Security Engineer, Developer, QA, and DevOps Engineer to test and review the outcome of each test results. Moreover, the API testing can be done vie CI/CD integration, API Curl request, Docker Image, CRON Job for Daily testing, or continuous testing.

The reports are very comprehensive which they have both CSV, and PDF. Moreover, each test only useful with its detailed reports for engineers and developers to work and review them. With that being said, all those results we can have a weekly meeting with Akto's engineers to verify the API results, and we can define them as false positive or positive outcomes. Moreover, some specific vulnerabilities are very sophisticated which out of our levels of understanding, that is why working and improving the result with Akto's team is very crucial to achieve the common goals.

While there are several additional features worth mentioning, we highly recommend trying Akto to experience its capabilities firsthand. And POC it on your requirements and criteria are recommended before onboarding with them. As it is the DAST & API Security to provide function to scan and features to resolve the issues, you should understand your business needs first. Last but not least, Akto offers a one-month POC, allowing businesses to test and evaluate the tool base on their unique criteria, compliance requirements, and regulations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akto?

There will always a lot of things to improve, as its main primary function to scan API vulnerabilities. However, since it is a startup that rapidly develops new features, those features might have bugs or some documentation related to those features have not been updated by the developers. Fortunately, their engineers and support team are very pro-active to assist in the bugs, and resolving issues regarding to your business needs.

While we recognize that no tool is perfect, Akto is constantly evoling. Their team is receptive to client feedback, including ours, and is committed to making continuous improvements. This responsiveness ensures that Akto continues to enhance its functionality and provides better results of its product into the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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