Cycode is pleased to announce a new integration with Akamai WAF, bringing real-time web application firewall event data directly into the Cycode platform. By ingesting Akamai security events alongside Cycode’s code-to-runtime context, security teams can finally see live attacks not as isolated alerts at the edge, but as signals tied to the exact APIs, endpoints, services, and code owners they affect.
Modern APIs are the front door of the business, and that door is under constant pressure. Akamai’s WAF is catching and blocking attacks against that perimeter every day: OS command injection attempts, SQL injection probes, credential abuse, and everything in between. The challenge has never been detecting these events. The challenge is knowing which ones actually matter, which application they targeted, who owns the code behind them, and whether the exposure still lives upstream in a repository waiting to be exploited.
This integration closes that loop.
Why The Akamai WAF Integration Matters
Most security teams today are drowning in a familiar pattern: the WAF generates thousands of events, the API security tool flags anomalies, the code scanners produce findings, and none of them are talking to each other. A command injection attempt at the edge looks like a data point. The vulnerable endpoint behind it looks like a separate data point. The service, repository, and owner that introduced it look like a third. Somewhere in that fragmentation, real risk gets buried under noise, and real attacks get triaged as low priority.
This is exactly the problem Cycode’s platform is built to solve. Visibility is not enough. What matters is the context that turns raw signals into a complete picture of risk. By pulling Akamai WAF event data into Cycode’s Context Intelligence Graph, runtime attack signals are no longer isolated firings at the perimeter. They become enriched signals correlated back to the code that produced the exposed endpoint, the team that owns it, and the sensitivity of the data it handles.
For security teams, that changes the math. Instead of triaging every WAF alert in isolation, they can focus on the small percentage of events that actually represent meaningful risk to the business.
Inside the Cycode and Akamai WAF Integration: Key Capabilities
Setup is designed to be fast. With an integration name, host, client token, client secret, and access token, Akamai WAF data begins flowing into Cycode in minutes. Teams can pull historical event data from the last 24 hours, 7 days, or 30 days, and set default severity handling for events that arrive without CWE data. Once connected, the real value starts to compound.
Intelligent event aggregation. Akamai generates a lot of events. A single OS command injection rule hitting one login endpoint over the course of a day can trigger hundreds of individual violations. Cycode automatically aggregates these events by website, endpoint, and rule ID, rolling them up into a single, investigable violation. Security teams stop triaging duplicates and start triaging incidents.
End-to-end API security investigation. Aggregated Akamai WAF violations appear directly in Cycode’s API Security dashboard, where each policy maps cleanly to a WAF rule in Akamai. Analysts can open a specific violation, say, OS command injection against a login endpoint and see the full correlation at a glance: the website, the endpoint, the CWE, and the code behind it. Full context, including WAF Rule ID, the action taken (alert or deny), and source IP, is available in the Security Tools tab with no context-switching to the Akamai console.
Runtime-to-code correlation. This is where the integration unlocks something new. Cycode’s query builder lets teams search across Akamai runtime data and match live-observed APIs back to their source code definitions inside Cycode. For every endpoint exposed to the internet and seen by Akamai, teams can immediately identify the service, repository, and owner responsible. The question, “Who owns this API and what code stands behind it?” goes from a multi-day investigation to a single query.
Prioritized triage based on what’s actually sensitive. Not every WAF violation deserves equal attention. With Akamai data enriched by Cycode’s context, teams can filter violations down to the ones that matter most for example, scoping the view to WAF events that hit endpoints handling PII. Instead of grinding through a queue of thousands of alerts, analysts focus on incidents where sensitive data is genuinely in scope and exposure is real.
Shadow coverage detection. Finally, Cycode automatically identifies which of an organization’s domains are actually proxied through Akamai, producing a clear picture of what is protected and what is not. Assets sitting outside WAF coverage become immediately visible, closing one of the most common and dangerous gaps in API security programs.
Security and Business Outcomes: Faster Triage, Real Accountability, Less Shadow Risk
The strategic value of this integration is not that it adds another dashboard. It is that it transforms Akamai WAF from a perimeter tool into a source of contextual intelligence that the rest of the security program can reason over.
Faster, more confident triage. Aggregation and PII-based filtering collapse alert fatigue. Teams spend less time sorting duplicates and more time acting on the events that matter.
Code-to-runtime accountability. Runtime-to-code correlation gives security leaders something they have rarely had: a direct line from an attack observed in production to the service owner, repository, and code responsible. Remediation stops being a handoff exercise and starts being a targeted conversation.
Reduced exposure from shadow assets. Automatic detection of what is and is not behind Akamai gives CISOs a defensible view of coverage and a clear remediation list for anything sitting outside of it.
A more complete security picture. The integration extends Cycode’s code-to-runtime visibility into the edge, ensuring that attack signals from the real world feed directly into how teams prioritize, assign, and fix risk across the development lifecycle.
This is the foundation the Agentic Development Security Platform is built on: every signal, from the IDE to the edge, enriched by shared context and made actionable. The Akamai WAF integration is another thread in that fabric, turning fragmented runtime alerts into coordinated, prioritized action.
Get Started with the Cycode Akamai WAF Integration
The Akamai WAF integration is available now for Cycode customers. Setup takes minutes: generate the required credentials in Akamai, configure the connector inside Cycode, and choose a historical pull window to backfill context. Once connected, WAF events begin flowing into the API Security dashboard and the full context graph automatically.
To see how the Akamai WAF integration can help your team move from edge alerts to end-to-end API security, request a demo to learn more.
