Product overview

FireTail is a platform designed to secure APIs across their entire lifecycle, from development to production and ongoing maintenance. It provides tools for API discovery, centralized logging, real-time threat detection, and risk management, helping organizations maintain visibility and control over their API environments.

Key features

Dashboard

The FireTail dashboard provides a complete view of your API environment, including:

• The total number of APIs, applications, and issues.
• Global API traffic volumes, geolocation of traffic sources, and traffic trends over time.

API discovery and inventory management

FireTail simplifies API discovery by integrating with popular cloud platforms and code repositories, enabling organizations to identify APIs in production and development stages.

Preconfigured integrations

• Cloud platforms: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform.
• Code repositories: GitHub and Gitlab.

Continuous discovery

FireTail performs ongoing discovery of APIs, building a complete inventory that includes:

• APIs currently in production.
• APIs under development and testing.

This continuous process ensures visibility into all APIs, reducing the risk of shadow or zombie APIs.

API security posture management

FireTail evaluates APIs against industry security frameworks to identify vulnerabilities and misconfigurations:

• OWASP API Security Top 10
• CIS API Security Guide
• MITRE ATT&CK Techniques and Tactics
• Other API security best practices

Detailed findings

For every issue identified, FireTail provides:

• The cause of the issue.
• Remediation guidance.

External API scanning

Use FireTail's automated scanning tools to perform comprehensive security testing for APIs. This includes:

• API contract testing.
• Fuzz testing for edge-case behaviors.
• Detection of CVE vulnerabilities and data leaks.

With over 3,000 tests available, organizations can validate API resilience against a wide range of attack vectors.

Open source code libraries

FireTail offers open-source libraries compatible with leading programming languages and cloud platforms.

Runtime protection

• The libraries convert API specification files into runtime security checks.
• These checks block leading attack vectors responsible for over 90% of API breaches.

Centralized logging

• Logs from these libraries are sent to the FireTail cloud service.
• Includes application-layer visibility and full request/response payloads with PII data masked.

Comprehensive logging and monitoring

FireTail centralizes API activity logging to provide actionable insights and enable threat detection.

Log sources

• Logs from FireTail libraries and APIs.
• Logs from network resources types.
• Integrations with popular proxy engines and API gateways, such as nginx and apisix.

Log enrichment and analysis

• Logs are enriched with:
  • IP geolocation data
  • Classifiers for malicious indicators and problem characteristics
• Enriched logs help build custom detections and improve threat analysis.

Monitoring and alerts

• All logs are accessible in the FireTail dashboard with filtering options for status codes, execution times, and more.
• Set thresholds and triggers to generate alerts or forward information to:
  • Security information management systems (e.g., SIEM).
  • Ticketing systems.

Incident response

FireTail’s API incident response system is designed to address the unique challenges of API security incidents.

Contextual incident data

FireTail provides detailed information for each incident, including:

• API name and location (e.g., cloud account, VPC, subnet).
• Cause of the incident (e.g., configuration, traffic anomaly, code changes).
• Exfiltrated data and its scope.
• Developer IDs and timestamps for API changes.
• Related traffic patterns, including attacker behavior across APIs.

This rich contextual data facilitates collaboration between security teams and developers to remediate vulnerabilities and improve API security practices.

Summary

FireTail is a comprehensive solution for securing APIs throughout their lifecycle. It integrates with cloud platforms, code repositories, and API gateways to provide continuous discovery and inventory management of APIs. Its tools for assessing security posture, logging activity, and responding to incidents are built on established frameworks and best practices, helping organizations identify vulnerabilities, detect threats, and take actionable steps toward mitigation.

With FireTail, you can achieve greater visibility into their API environment, monitor real-time activity, and respond effectively to security events using detailed contextual data. This approach helps reduce the risk of breaches, maintain compliance, and improve overall API reliability.