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Allytics Tech Perspectives

Allytics Tech Perspectives

Akto

Akto provides AI-powered security software for organizations that need visibility and control across MCPs, AI agents, and APIs. Its platform is built around continuous discovery, security testing, posture management, and real-time protection, helping teams identify exposed assets, uncover weaknesses, and enforce guardrails as autonomous systems move into production.

Akto’s portfolio spans employee endpoint coverage, cloud runtime protection for homegrown AI systems, dedicated MCP security, API discovery and testing, and an open-source API security offering. Akto also supports deployment across public cloud and on-premises environments and uses a broad connector ecosystem to ingest activity from cloud services, gateways, browsers, IDEs, and agent platforms.

Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations

Akto’s core capabilities center on discovering agentic and API assets, maintaining inventory, simulating attacks, identifying sensitive data exposure, assessing security posture, and applying runtime controls. The platform is designed to help security teams move from visibility to enforcement across both AI-driven workflows and traditional API environments.

Its integration model is a major part of the offering. Akto connects with cloud infrastructure, API gateways, AI agent platforms, MCP environments, browsers, IDEs, endpoint tooling, and SDK-based data sources. Supported environments and connectors span AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, API gateways, and popular AI ecosystems such as AWS Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, Google Vertex AI, Databricks, IBM watsonx, LangChain, LiteLLM, n8n, and Copilot Studio.

Akto also supports CI/CD and runtime deployment patterns, enabling teams to test before release and monitor after deployment. In addition to platform software, it offers advisory services for AI agent red teaming, MCP security, AI agent security, and broader agentic risk assessment.

Products and Services

  • Agentic AI Security: Akto’s umbrella platform for discovering, testing, governing, and protecting AI agents, MCP servers, and GenAI applications across employee endpoints and cloud environments.
  • Akto Atlas: Endpoint-focused agentic AI security product for employee devices that discovers shadow AI, MCP usage, and GenAI tools across browsers, IDEs, and local environments while enforcing guardrails.
  • Akto Argus: Cloud-focused agentic AI security product for homegrown AI that secures AI agents, MCP servers, and GenAI applications from CI/CD through runtime with discovery, continuous assessment, and guardrails.
  • MCP Security: Dedicated MCP security module that identifies MCP servers and exposed endpoints, runs MCP-specific security tests, and continuously monitors for misconfigurations, threats, and data leaks.
  • API Security: API security offering that discovers APIs from live traffic, maintains inventory, highlights shadow and undocumented APIs, and detects sensitive data exposure plus runtime authentication and authorization issues.
  • DAST: Dynamic API security testing component that uses observed API behavior to run context-aware tests for OWASP API Top 10 and business logic vulnerabilities in manual, scheduled, or CI/CD workflows.
  • Akto Connectors: Integration library used to capture AI agent, MCP, and API activity from cloud services, gateways, browsers, IDEs, endpoint tools, SDKs, and other traffic sources.
  • AktoGPT: In-product assistant that integrates with ChatGPT to help users analyze Akto data and support tasks such as API grouping, filtering, and sensitive-data review from the dashboard.
  • Akto Open Source: Open-source API security offering for API discovery, inventory, testing, and CI/CD-based security workflows, aimed at developers, security engineers, and community contributors.
  • AI Agent Red Teaming: Service that simulates attacks against AI agents to expose weaknesses related to prompt security, tool misuse, unsafe actions, and data exposure.
  • MCP Security Consulting: Advisory service focused on evaluating and hardening MCP servers, tools, and integration layers against real-world threats.
  • AI Agent Security Consulting: Consulting service for reviewing agent design, data handling, and tool access patterns to identify and remediate security gaps.
  • End-to-End Agentic Security Risk Assessment: Assessment service that evaluates the full agentic stack and provides risk scoring with mitigation guidance across AI agents, MCPs, tools, and related components.

Target Customers

Akto targets modern AI security teams, application security teams, and enterprise security organizations that need to secure MCPs, AI agents, and APIs without losing visibility across fast-changing environments. Its products fit teams responsible for employee AI usage, homegrown AI deployments, API protection, runtime governance, and AI risk reduction.

The company is oriented toward larger organizations and enterprise programs, including Fortune 500 security teams. Its footprint and messaging also align with regulated and operationally complex sectors such as financial services, healthcare, public sector, manufacturing, automotive, and technology, where governance, monitoring, and production-grade controls are critical.

Cloud Integrations and Marketplace

  • AWS Marketplace: Akto has a verified AWS Marketplace SaaS listing for its API Security offering, covering API discovery, testing, and runtime protection.
  • Amazon Web Services: Akto integrates with AWS environments and services through connectors such as AWS Bedrock, AWS API Gateway, AWS Lambda, AWS ECS, AWS EKS, and AWS Fargate.
  • Microsoft Azure: Akto supports Microsoft Azure through integrations and connectors for Azure AI Foundry, Azure API Management, Azure Functions, AKS, Azure Container Apps, Azure App Services, and Azure OpenShift.
  • Google Cloud: Akto supports Google Cloud through integrations and connectors for Google Vertex AI, Apigee, GKE, Google Cloud Run, and Google Cloud Run Functions.

Key People

  • Ankita Gupta: Co-Founder & CEO
  • Ankush Jain: Co-Founder & CTO
  • Amaresh MV: SEO Lead
  • Raaga Srinivas: Product Marketing Manager
  • Ryan Duffy: Enterprise Account Executive

Key Facts

  • Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States
  • Employees: Approximately 25-30
  • Annual Revenue: Undisclosed
  • Parent Company: None
  • Subsidiaries: None
  • Publicly Listed: No (privately held)

Analyst Recognitions

  • Gartner: 2025 Gartner Hype Cycle for Application Security – Representative Vendor under API Security. 2025 Gartner Hype Cycle for APIs – Representative Vendor under API Security Testing. 2025 Gartner How to Secure Custom-Built AI Agents – Representative Vendor. 2024 Gartner Market Guide for API Protection – Representative Vendor.
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