Kong specializes in API management and connectivity, providing tools that help businesses manage, secure, and optimize their APIs, which are crucial for software applications to communicate. The main product, Kong Gateway, is a fast and flexible API gateway capable of handling up to 50,000 transactions per second per node, ensuring efficient API traffic management. Additionally, Kong offers Kong Konnect, a SaaS platform for API management, and Kong Mesh, which manages microservices that work together in larger applications. Unlike many competitors, Kong combines open-source technology with enterprise solutions, allowing clients to access core features for free while offering premium services for businesses. The goal of Kong is to enhance developer productivity, improve security, and optimize performance for a wide range of clients, from startups to large enterprises, in a rapidly growing market.

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Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, recently released findings from their API Security Perspectives 2025: AI-Enhanced Threats and API Security Report which highlights today’s API security landscape and how new developments in AI will impact it. Most notably, 25% of respondents have encountered AI-enhanced security threats related to APIs or LLMs, with 75% of respondents expressing serious concern about AI-enhanced attacks in the future. And while 85% say they’re confident in their organisation’s security capabilities, 55% of respondents cited they’ve experienced an API security incident in the past year, highlighting a notable disconnect.The findings also put into perspective the importance of having a strong security strategy noting that 1 in 5 respondents cited their organisation has experienced an API security incident costing more than $500,000 in the past 12 months.While 92% of respondents say they are taking measures to counter AI-enhanced attacks and 88% of respondents citing API security as a top priority, it is clear that many organisations lack the comprehensive security measures needed to protect their API infrastructure in the AI era.“Organisations cannot afford to underestimate their own security risks — especially in the age of AI,” said Marco Palladino, CTO and Co-Founder of Kong, Inc. “The report showcases that API security is being taken seriously as part of overall cybersecurity strategy, but there are still some blind spots that can open an organisation up to threats. As AI continues to advance, not only will companies create more vulnerabilities within their own organisations, but attacks will become more sophisticated. Understanding the full threat landscape is crucial to maintaining a strong API security posture.”As might be expected 84% of respondents feel AI and LLMs will make securing APIs more difficult, but surprisingly, the research finds many basic API security tactics being left out of overall strategy.Only 35% of organisations are adopting zero-trust architecture in order to mitigate API security risks and only 3% of respondents cite shadow APIs as a significant security threat to their organisation

New Study From Kong Highlights Rising Threat Of Ai-Enhanced Security Attacks

Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, today announced the launch of the latest version of Kong Konnect, the API platform for the AI era, at API Summit 2024.

Kong Advances Konnect Capabilities to Propel Today's API Infrastructures into the AI Era

Kong Expands Executive Bench, Tapping Proven Sales Leader to Further Scale Its Global Revenue Engine and Accelerate World-Class GTMSAN FRANCISCO, June 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, today welcomed Joe Eskenazi as Chief Revenue Officer. Eskenazi will oversee Kong's global sales organization, including Direct Sales, Sales Engineering, Sales and Business Development Representatives, Channels, Revenue Operations, and Enablement. He will drive strategies to help scale Kong's revenue engine and ensure organizational alignment for growth.Joe Eskenazi, Chief Revenue Officer of Kong Inc.Eskenazi brings over 20 years of business development and sales leadership experience. At Sprinklr, he helped lead revenue growth from the early stages to over $700 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) through its IPO in June 2021. His leadership will strengthen Kong's partnerships across Customer Success, Business Development and Marketing teams to enhance the company's GTM strategies and help drive global revenue expansion.Having topped $100 million ARR in 2023, Kong currently serves approximately 700 commercial customers, including GlaxoSmithKline, Moderna, Wayfair, PayPal, and The New York Stock Exchange. Kong's flagship open source API gateway handles more than 400 billion API calls a day and has been downloaded over 340 million times by thousands of organizations, while Kong's recently introduced AI Gateway addresses the surging demand for AI adoption and governance."Having Joe Eskenazi join Kong as our Chief Revenue Officer is a significant win for us, and we're excited about the journey ahead

Kong Names Joe Eskenazi Chief Revenue Officer

Kong Expands Executive Leadership Team to Deliver Exceptional Customer ExperiencesSAN FRANCISCO, April 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, today welcomed Sunil Wadhwa as Chief Customer Officer. In his new role, Wadhwa will lead all aspects of customer care, including onboarding, implementations, training and ongoing management to ensure the success of Kong's customers when leveraging its products and services. With more than two decades of customer success expertise at world-class enterprise software businesses, Wadhwa will join Kong's executive leadership team and act as the "voice of the customer" while driving new innovations and programs that help maximize customer value. Sunil Wadhwa, Chief Customer Officer. Having topped $100 million in annual recurring revenue in 2023, Kong currently serves approximately 700 commercial customers, including GlaxoSmithKline, Moderna, Wayfair, PayPal and The New York Stock Exchange. Kong's flagship open-source API gateway handles more than 400 billion API calls a day and has been downloaded over 340 million times by thousands of organizations, while Kong's recently introduced AI Gateway addresses the surging demand for AI adoption and governance."I'm thrilled to welcome Sunil as our first Chief Customer Officer

Sunil Wadhwa Joins Kong As Chief Customer Officer

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More. Cohere has announced the release of updated versions of its application programming interfaces (APIs) for its AI models Chat, Embed, Rerank, and Classify.Collectively, the new API updates are known as API V2, and Cohere is being transparent about the fact that the updates are meant to more closely align with AI industry standards to make it easier for developers to switch their applications over to be powered by Cohere’s models in lieu of the competition: namely, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, and Meta.Earlier this month, Andreessen Horowitz (A16z) general partner Martin Casado posted on X an image of a graph showing the results of a survey from AI API platform Kong of 800 enterprise leaders revealing the large language models (LLMs) they were using. OpenAI’s ChatGPT dominated the chart with 27% market share compared to 18% using Microsoft’s Azure AI cloud service and 17% for Google Gemini. Cohere was second-to-last with a distant 5%, showing how the Toronto-based startup — co-founded by some of the former Google researchers behind the original 2017 Transformer paper that ushered in the generative AI era — has a lot of ground to make up to win over the enterprise customers it’s courting. Enhanced reliability with more precise settingsOne of the most significant changes in the V2 API release is the requirement for developers to specify the model version in their API calls

Cohere Updates Apis To Make It Easier For Devs To Switch From Other Models

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ - Kong Inc., the leading developer of cloud API technologies, today unveiled during the company's annual API Summit, its new Premium Technology Partner Program, a strategic initiative designed to deepen its engagement with technology partners and foster innovation within its cloud and developer ecosystem.

Kong Announces Launch of New Premium Technology Partner Program to Enhance Developer Ecosystem

Insomnia 10 Introduces Semantic GenAI Infrastructure for Developers, Unlimited Collection Runs, and Secure Enterprise Collaboration to Further Elevate the Developer ExperienceSAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Kong Inc ., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, today announced the release of Kong Insomnia 10, the latest version of its rapidly growing API development solution. Unveiled at API Summit 2024 , Insomnia 10 introduces groundbreaking features that not only enhance developer productivity but also help ensure the highest levels of API quality, security and governance. With over 1 million users, Insomnia continues to establish itself as the go-to tool for building, testing and debugging APIs."Insomnia 10 is a major milestone in our mission to empower developers with what we believe is the most efficient, secure, and cost-effective API development tool on the market," said Marco Palladino, co-founder and chief technology officer of Kong Inc. "With the introduction of GenAI acceleration capabilities, unlimited collection runs and advanced collaboration features, Insomnia 10 sets a new standard for API tools, offering everything developers need out-of-the-box."Elevate Developer Productivity & ExperienceInsomnia 10 is designed to streamline the development process, making it easier and faster for developers to build and test APIs. The new Collection Runner feature allows developers to run an unlimited number of collection runs, schedule the order of execution for requests and manage multiple requests simultaneously

Kong Insomnia Surpasses 1 Million Users, Becoming The Fastest Growing Platform For Building, Testing And Debugging Apis

SAN FRANCISCO, July 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, today announced the appointment of Gunjan Aggarwal as Chief People Officer. Gunjan will lead Kong's global people strategy, focusing on scaling the Human Resources organization, as well as attracting and retaining top talent to support the company's continued growth trajectory. Gunjan joins Kong from Confluent, where she served as Chief People Officer. She brings a wealth of experience from her previous roles as Chief People Officer at RingCentral and Chief HR Officer at RELX Group. Gunjan has a track record of driving innovation and fostering a diverse and inclusive culture across organizations. Gunjan Aggarwal, Chief People Officer

Kong Appoints Gunjan Aggarwal As Chief People Officer To Drive Talent Strategy And Organizational Growth

API management company Kong Inc. has raised $175 million in a Series E funding round, bringing its total funding to over $346 million and valuing the company at more than $2 billion. The round was led by Tiger Global and Balderton, with participation from new and existing investors. Kong aims to enhance API management for next-gen AI applications with its Kong AI Gateway, facilitating faster development and centralized security.

Kong raises $175M for AI connectivity

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ - Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, today announced the release of Kong Insomnia 10, the latest version of its rapidly growing API development solution.

Kong Insomnia Surpasses 1 Million Users, Becoming the Fastest Growing Platform for Building, Testing and Debugging APIs

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