We are excited to announce Levo's integration with Checkmarx, an undisputed leader in application leader.
With this integration, Checkmarx customers can now secure their APIs in the same place as all other components of an application.
Checkmarx has helped thousands of DevSecOps teams build, ship, and secure applications for over two decades, during which the composition of modern applications has changed.
Software is no longer monolithic blocks of code deployed quarterly. It is a collection of distributed systems where API endpoints have become the dominant architectural pattern, the primary execution layer, and increasingly, the revenue engine.
APIs enable this velocity because they decouple development, allow teams to compose applications from reusable services, and create partner ecosystems without requiring complete platform rebuilds.
So when APIs fail, the consequences are direct: regulatory fines, incident response costs, customer attrition, and revenue loss.
This integration brings API-specific security into Checkmarx's platform so enterprises can realize, retain and accelerate the growth APIs create through API discovery and API security testing.
Automated API Inventory without rollout delays
APIs accumulate through years of releases, framework migrations, acquisitions, and independent teams shipping across business units.
63% of teams can ship an API in under a week, and 8% deploy hourly. At this velocity, manual catalogs become outdated the moment they are published.
What was deployed last quarter now runs in production alongside endpoints inherited from systems acquired years ago. No spreadsheet can keep pace with this rate of change, and no single team has visibility into what every other team has deployed.
This is why most enterprises struggle to answer a fundamental question: how many APIs do we operate?
The result is API sprawl. Enterprises operate APIs they have forgotten about: shadow APIs created by developers solving immediate problems, zombie APIs that were deprecated but never decommissioned, and low-traffic endpoints that rarely appear in monitoring but remain exposed and exploitable.
These hidden endpoints are exactly what attackers look for because they evade testing, governance, and incident response planning.
Levo addresses this by discovering and cataloguing all APIs automatically. For Checkmarx customers, this inventory can be built directly through code repositories without requiring runtime sensor deployments or asking teams to maintain documentation manually.
The inventory captures every API: internal, external, partner, and third-party, including the endpoints buried in legacy codebases or complex service dependencies that rarely surface in architectural reviews.
This inventory becomes a strategic enabler across the enterprise:
- Security teams gain proactive and complete risk mitigation because every API is tracked and no endpoint slips scrutiny.
- Developers accelerate deployment of differentiated features because the inventory surfaces opportunities for API reuse and eliminates duplication of effort.
- Compliance teams achieve automated compliance with audit frameworks that mandate asset inventory, including PCI, SEBI, and ISO standards.
API Security Testing built to support Velocity
Traditional SAST and DAST tools were built for monolithic applications with user interfaces and centralized codebases. APIs operate differently.
Static analysis cannot see how APIs behave when executed. Dynamic analysis cannot interact with APIs the way attackers do. Both miss the authorization bypasses, data exposure risks, and business logic abuse that only emerge when APIs run with real user context.
The cost of this mismatch is measurable on both sides:
- Vulnerabilities slip into production because coverage remains shallow, resulting in breaches that trigger regulatory fines, incident response costs, and revenue loss.
- At the same time, security teams drown in alert fatigue. Pattern-based scans generate thousands of findings, most lacking exploitability context, the vast majority false positives. Teams burn cycles triaging noise instead of fixing real risks.
Remediation backlogs grow faster than they can be addressed. Release velocity suffers because security becomes a bottleneck instead of an enabler.
Levo has reinvented security testing specifically for how APIs work. It tests APIs continuously in CI/CD and pre-production using thousands of exploit-aware payloads tailored to live traffic and actual user behavior.
Each response is validated to confirm true exploitability, eliminating the phantom positives that plague legacy scans. Testing runs continuously and coverage expands automatically as new endpoints deploy.
The result is a fundamental operational shift. Security teams surface only genuine vulnerabilities with proof of exploitability, clear priority, and remediation context mapped to the developer who owns the code.
Backlogs shrink because findings are actionable, not theoretical. Release velocity improves because security strengthens without manual gating. Incident costs drop because fewer vulnerabilities reach production.
For API-first enterprises, this directly protects that revenue by preventing the breaches and fines that API exploits cause, while enabling deployment velocity.
Speak to an engineer today to secure APIs where your AppSec workflows already run
