Minimize the risk of attack on your APIs

Security in your Integrations

Our API Pentest service evaluates the security of your integrations through exhaustive tests that identify flaws in authentication, authorization, and exposure of sensitive data. With these tests, we protect the data and integrity of your applications, ensuring secure communication and compliance with industry best practices.

OWASP API Top 10

We use OWASP which provides guidance on the most common and dangerous vulnerabilities in APIs and allows developers to take preventative measures to secure their applications.

APIs tend to expose endpoints that handle object identifiers, creating a wide attack surface of Object Level Access Control issues. Object level authorization checks should be considered in every function that accesses a data source using an ID from the user.

Authentication mechanisms are often implemented incorrectly, allowing attackers to compromise authentication tokens or to exploit implementation flaws to assume other user’s identities temporarily or permanently. Compromising a system’s ability to identify the client/user, compromises API security overall.

Focusing on the root cause: the lack of or improper authorization validation at the object property level. This leads to information exposure or manipulation by unauthorized parties.

Satisfying API requests requires resources such as network bandwidth, CPU, memory, and storage. Other resources such as emails/SMS/phone calls or biometrics validation are made available by service providers via API integrations, and paid for per request. Successful attacks can lead to Denial of Service or an increase of operational costs.

Complex access control policies with different hierarchies, groups, and roles, and an unclear separation between administrative and regular functions, tend to lead to authorization flaws. By exploiting these issues, attackers can gain access to other users’ resources and/or administrative functions.

APIs vulnerable to this risk expose a business flow – such as buying a ticket, or posting a comment – without compensating for how the functionality could harm the business if used excessively in an automated manner. This doesn’t necessarily come from implementation bugs.

Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) flaws can occur when an API is fetching a remote resource without validating the user-supplied URI. This enables an attacker to coerce the application to send a crafted request to an unexpected destination, even when protected by a firewall or a VPN.

APIs and the systems supporting them typically contain complex configurations, meant to make the APIs more customizable. Software and DevOps engineers can miss these configurations, or don’t follow security best practices when it comes to configuration, opening the door for different types of attacks.

APIs tend to expose more endpoints than traditional web applications, making proper and updated documentation highly important. A proper inventory of hosts and deployed API versions also are important to mitigate issues such as deprecated API versions and exposed debug endpoints.

Developers tend to trust data received from third-party APIs more than user input, and so tend to adopt weaker security standards. In order to compromise APIs, attackers go after integrated third-party services instead of trying to compromise the target API directly.

Certified experts

Our team consists of certified cybersecurity professionals with extensive experience in penetration testing.

Proven methodology

We follow recognized methodologies such as OWASP and NIST to ensure a rigorous and effective assessment.

Personalized approach

We tailor our tests to your company’s specific needs, ensuring relevant and applicable results.

Benefits of the Pentest API

We use a multi-phase approach to ensure that your API is completely secure. Our team reviews exposed endpoints as well as authentication configurations and transferred data. This ensures that testing is thorough and that every possible entry point is evaluated.

Protection of Sensitive Data

We identify and solve security risks before they can be exploited, protecting your users’ data.

Improved Customer Confidence

By demonstrating a commitment to safety, you increase your customers’ confidence in using your services.

Regulatory Compliance

We help ensure compliance with data security regulations applicable to your industry, such as GDPR and PCI-DSS.

Operational Efficiency

Proactively detecting vulnerabilities minimizes the risk of disruption to your operations.