APIs connect every part of the cloud environment, powering communication and enabling access to data and services. Their ubiquity and reach have made them a top target for attackers.
AI is making this more challenging. Today, vulnerabilities can be discovered and exploited within hours of disclosure. Attackers are automating reconnaissance, scanning for exposed endpoints at machine speed, and probing for weak authorization controls before most security teams have even seen the advisory.
Despite this, APIs remain a blind spot for many security teams. Attackers know it, routinely scanning for exposed endpoints. The result is an alarming rise in breaches that exploit insecure APIs. And as AI accelerates the attacker’s advantage, the cost of that blind spot keeps growing.
We’re excited to announce that Wiz API Security Posture Management (API SPM) is now generally available — helping security teams remove API blind spots, identify exploitable APIs, and effectively mitigate the risk of an API-related breach.
Not All API Vulnerabilities Are Created Equal
Security teams are already buried in alerts. Adding another stream of API findings can solve one problem while creating another. Without the context to understand which findings actually matter, teams can’t prioritize fixes or reduce risk effectively.
A misconfiguration in an internal API with no access to sensitive data shouldn’t be treated the same as a SQL injection vulnerability on a public-facing endpoint sitting on a VM that hosts PII. To focus on what matters most, teams need visibility into how each API connects to their broader cloud environment.
That context enables prioritization. By mapping the full attack path — from an exposed API to critical data — organizations can cut through the noise and focus on the fixes that meaningfully reduce risk. In a world where AI-powered attackers can move at machine speed, that prioritization isn’t just useful, it’s essential.
Breaking Down Silos Between API and Cloud Security
Attackers don’t think in silos. They move across the entire attack surface, looking for any way in and pivoting laterally once they find it. Security teams need the same horizontal view — seeing how risks connect across APIs, cloud resources, and data — to stay one step ahead.
Wiz brings API and cloud security together in the Security Graph, giving teams one unified view of their environment. By mapping exposed API endpoints, related cloud resources, and sensitive data, Wiz reveals toxic combinations and highlights the risks that truly matter.
This unified approach gives teams complete context — including exposure, data sensitivity, infrastructure, ownership, and API risk — so they can focus on remediating what has the greatest impact.
Continuous and Automated API Discovery
You can’t secure what you can’t see. Wiz continuously and automatically discovers APIs across your cloud environment through multiple complementary methods, providing broad coverage across leading API management platforms. Discovery is performed agentlessly through integrations with services such as Amazon Web Services API Gateway, Microsoft API Management, and Google Cloud API Gateway and Apigee, alongside runtime traffic analysis when the Wiz sensor is deployed and external attack surface scanning. This comprehensive approach builds a complete, continuously updated inventory of all APIs, including shadow and zombie APIs that often go unnoticed. Each API is enriched with context such as external exposure, access to sensitive data, authentication configuration, and associated cloud resources, giving security teams a complete view of their API landscape and the risks within it.
"As an early design partner for Wiz API Security, we worked closely with the Wiz team to help shape a solution that could scale effectively in a large enterprise environment. The deployment of API Security runtime sensors across key areas of our infrastructure was seamless and introduced minimal operational friction. What impressed us most was the scalability of the rollout model and the ability to expand API visibility and risk insights rapidly across the organization. The co-creation approach between our teams enabled fast alignment between product innovation and enterprise operational requirements. "
- Dmitri Lubenski, Head of Technology Enablement, Siemens
Assess API Exploitability with Wiz ASM for APIs
Discovery is only the first step. Wiz performs a thorough risk assessment on APIs through Attack Surface Management (ASM) for APIs. First, Wiz validates whether APIs are publicly exposed. Then Wiz dynamically tests APIs from the outside in, simulating real attacker techniques to determine whether APIs are actually exploitable.
For teams responding to the accelerating threat of AI-powered attacks, validated exploitability is critical. It means you can focus remediation effort on what's actually reachable, not just theoretically vulnerable.
For teams that want to go deeper, the Wiz Red Agent takes API risk assessment even further. By actively testing APIs the way a real attacker would, Red Agent dramatically expands coverage — enabling teams to test for a broad range of vulnerabilities across the OWASP API Top 10, including issues like Broken Object Level Authorization and other risks that passive and deterministic scanning alone can’t reliably detect.
Prioritize API Risk with Toxic Combinations
Wiz identifies toxic combinations — situations where an exposed API forms part of an attack path that could lead to compromise of sensitive data or abuse of resources. These combinations represent the most critical attack paths in the cloud.
By unifying API and cloud context in the Wiz Security Graph, and layering in additional context including exposure, vulnerabilities, and access to sensitive data, Wiz pinpoints the risks that could realistically lead to a breach.
Consider a concrete example: an internet-accessible API endpoint with a confirmed SQL injection vulnerability, hosted on a virtual machine containing PII. That combination — exploitable vulnerability plus sensitive data, directly reachable from the internet — is flagged as a critical toxic combination. Security teams can see the full attack path in a single graph view and immediately understand the real-world impact.
Effectively Remediate with Clear Guidance
Finding risks is only half the battle. Wiz helps teams fix them faster with clear, actionable remediation guidance for every finding.
Each issue is enriched with context from across the environment — the affected API, linked cloud resources, ownership, and the sensitivity of associated data — so teams can assign and resolve risks efficiently. For teams working to reduce mean time to remediation from days to hours, this ownership context is what turns a finding into a closed ticket.
Wiz also supports automated remediation workflows — including the ability to trigger a Terraform patch via a coding agent directly from the remediation interface — helping security and engineering teams close the loop at the speed the current threat environment demands.
What’s Next
The release of Wiz API Security Posture Management is just the beginning. We’re continuing to invest in expanding API security coverage and will be sharing more on our roadmap soon. To get started, visit the API Security dashboard in Wiz today.
