# ammune.ai

> ammune.ai (formerly L7 Defense) is a cybersecurity company that builds ammune™, a fully autonomous, AI-based platform for protecting APIs - and, increasingly, AI systems and data centers - from cyberattacks. Using unsupervised machine learning, ammune auto-discovers APIs and builds a tailored protection layer for each one inline from the first request, blocking dozens of attack types (bots, DDoS, business-logic abuse, injection) in real time without pre-training or rule-writing. The platform is platform-agnostic, running on-premises, in the cloud, in Kubernetes clusters, and offloaded onto DPUs such as NVIDIA BlueField-2, and it recently expanded toward offline, air-gapped protection for AI workloads.

- **Founded:** 2015
- **Headquarters:** Newark, New Jersey, United States (with R&D roots in Israel)
- **Founders:** Dr. Doron Chema (Co-founder & CEO), Yisrael Gross (Co-founder & CEO / VP Business Development)
- **Team size:** ~12 employees
- **Products:** ammune™ API Security Platform, apiBOT / apiWAF / apiDDoS / apiBL modules, API Discovery, DPU / node-based deployment, Offline / Air-Gapped AI Protection
- **Notable:** Rebranded from L7 Defense to ammune.ai in May 2023 to lead in AI security., Received a Frost & Sullivan Product Leadership Award (2020) for its unsupervised-learning API protection., Earlier Frost & Sullivan commendation for its AI-based anti-DDoS solution for critical national infrastructure.

## Products & services

- **ammune™ API Security Platform** — A fully autonomous, AI-based platform that auto-discovers APIs and builds a tailored inline protection layer for each service, blocking 60+ API attack types in real time without pre-training or manual rules.
- **apiBOT / apiWAF / apiDDoS / apiBL modules** — Modular protection covering bot mitigation, web-application-firewall functions, applicative-layer DDoS mitigation, and business-logic abuse detection at the API resolution.
- **API Discovery** — Automatic, real-time discovery and inventory of APIs - including shadow and zombie APIs - as a foundation for protection.
- **DPU / node-based deployment** — ammune workload offloaded onto NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPUs and integrated with Intel's NetSec Accelerator to protect Kubernetes clusters with minimal host CPU usage.
- **Offline / Air-Gapped AI Protection** — Self-learning threat detection, real-time isolation, and analytics that run entirely offline for air-gapped and data-sovereign environments, extending protection to AI systems and data centers.

## Achievements

- Rebranded from L7 Defense to ammune.ai in May 2023 to lead in AI security.
- Received a Frost & Sullivan Product Leadership Award (2020) for its unsupervised-learning API protection.
- Earlier Frost & Sullivan commendation for its AI-based anti-DDoS solution for critical national infrastructure.
- First to offload a real-time API-security AI workload onto NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPUs (2022).
- Integrated with Intel's NetSec Accelerator Reference Design for Kubernetes protection (2023).
- Raised $4M Series A led by TRUMPF Venture with Quick Heal Technologies (2021).
- Joined the Financial Data Exchange (FDX) to support open-finance API security.

## Latest updates

- **2024-01** — Expanded positioning toward AI security and data-center protection, including offline/air-gapped detection, isolation, and analytics.
- **2023-05** — Rebranded from L7 Defense to ammune.ai and integrated ammune with Intel's NetSec Accelerator Reference Design.
- **2022-05** — Integrated ammune with the NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU to offload the real-time AI security workload.
- **2021-01** — Closed a $4M Series A led by TRUMPF Venture with participation from Quick Heal Technologies.

## Links

- Website: https://ammune.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ammune
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/l7defense
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-MRMUCvxcy_sHNXfUDuvA
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/l7defense

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Last updated: 2026-07-22