4 years ago

42Crunch Secures £12 Million to Bolster API Security

  • 42Crunch, a London-based API security software company, has raised £12 million in Series A funding led by Energy Impact Partners and Adara Ventures

  • The company's micro-firewall is designed to protect individual APIs from common cyberattacks, providing defense in-depth for microservice architectures

  • 42Crunch's platform allows for continuous discovery, audit, scanning, and protection of APIs throughout their entire lifecycle, enabling enterprises to manage thousands of APIs and deliver security at scale.

      • ProblemTechnology

      "APIs are becoming the most common target for cyberattacks, and traditional firewall approaches are not adapted to cope with the specific threats that APIs create. This is leading to data breaches for enterprise web applications."

      Solution

      "42Crunch provides a micro-firewall that is embedded with the APIs they protect, providing defence in-depth for microservice architectures, without the latency or deployment cost usually associated with traditional firewall solutions. It also offers automated cybersecurity tools that allow continuous discovery, audit, scanning and protection of APIs throughout their entire lifecycle."

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