Many security teams conduct proactive threat hunting activities to identify possible threats early and respond with countermeasures. Many first-generation API security products provide limited value to threat hunting teams, since they are focused on alerting, and do not store API activity at all, which means there is no data to query and hunt through. More advanced API security companies store large and context-rich API activity data sets and make this information available both in a GUI and through APIs, so threat hunters can leverage the data.