API Penetration Testing
Our API penetration testing simulates how real attackers target exposed endpoints, authentication mechanisms, authorization logic, and data handling within APIs. We assess your APIs end-to-end to uncover vulnerabilities before they can be exploited in the wild.
Expert-Led Manual Testing
We focus on the areas attackers target most, combining deep manual testing with targeted tooling to maximize coverage and real-world impact across REST, GraphQL, SOAP and other API architectures.
Key areas:
– Error handling and information disclosure
– Authentication mechanisms (API keys, OAuth, JWT, HMAC, etc.)
– Authorization and object-level access control (BOLA / IDOR)
– Business logic and workflow abuse
– Rate limiting and abuse prevention
– Input validation and injection flaws (SQLi, NoSQLi, SSTI, command injection, etc.)
– API endpoints, parameters, and integrations
– Data exposure and excessive data responses
– Error handling and information disclosure
– Versioning, deprecated, and undocumented endpoints
Methodology
All testing is based on the OWASP API Security Top 10, OWASP WSTG, NIST SP 800-115 Technical Guide to Information Security Testing and Assessment and other customized frameworks.
We Follow The 7-Phase Standardized Process to go From Initial Planning to Final Reporting, Ensuring Comprehensive Security Assessments.
1. Pre-Engagement Interactions
Defining the scope, rules, and objectives of the test with the client, including setting expectations, legal boundaries, and necessary tools.
2. Intelligence Gathering
Collecting information about the target organization, both from public sources (OSINT) and provided information, to understand potential attack vectors.
3. Threat Modeling
Identifying critical business assets, processes, and potential attacker groups (threat communities) to prioritize security efforts.
4. Vulnerability Analysis
Finding and validating weaknesses in systems and processes that could be exploited.
5. Exploitation
Actively leveraging identified vulnerabilities to breach the system and gain access, finding the weakest points of entry.
6. Post-Exploitation
Assessing the value of compromised systems, simulating data exfiltration, mapping the internal network, and pivoting to other targets.
7. Reporting
Creating comprehensive technical and executive reports detailing findings, vulnerabilities, risks, and actionable remediation guidance for the client.
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