42Crunch is an API security platform that automates security testing and threat protection throughout the API lifecycle, from design to runtime. It enables organizations to enforce compliance and governance while proactively identifying and remediating vulnerabilities in their API infrastructure.
Funding
$24.3M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Problem
Organizations face challenges in securing APIs throughout their lifecycle, from design to runtime, leading to vulnerabilities and potential compliance issues. Existing security measures often fail to integrate seamlessly into the development process, creating bottlenecks and slowing down innovation.
Solution
42Crunch offers an API security platform that automates security testing and threat protection across the entire API lifecycle. The platform enables organizations to enforce compliance and governance by proactively identifying and remediating vulnerabilities in their API infrastructure. It provides tools for developers to build secure APIs from within their IDEs, security teams to enforce policies across the API estate, and operations teams to deploy API security governance at scale. The platform's key components include API Capture for generating OpenAPI contracts, API Audit for security scoring and remediation advice, API Scan for vulnerability detection, and API Protect for runtime policy enforcement using a micro-API firewall.
Target Audience
The platform targets developers, security teams, and operations teams within organizations that are building and managing APIs, particularly those in regulated industries such as telecommunications, financial services, and healthcare.
Features
- Automated generation of OpenAPI contracts and security testing configurations from Postman collections and API traffic using API Capture.
- API Audit provides instant security scoring with actionable reports and zero false positives, available within IDEs and CI/CD pipelines.
- API Scan scans APIs for conformance to OpenAPI contracts and detects vulnerabilities at testing and runtime, identifying OWASP API Security Top 10 issues.
- API Protect offers runtime API security policy enforcement with a low-footprint, containerized micro-API firewall, configured from the API contract.
- Integrations with IDEs, CI/CD pipelines, API Gateways, Runtime Containers, and SIEM systems.
- Free tools available, including an OpenAPI Swagger Editor and free API security testing in IDEs.