API Penetration Testing
Application Programming Interface (API) Penetration Testing Services. Protecting the First Line of Defense of your Application.
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What We Do
APIs are the backbone of your application, enabling communication between internal and external systems. Our API Testing team ensures these critical connections are secure by identifying vulnerabilities, probing for weaknesses, and reporting potential flaws.
Unlike others who rely solely on automated scanners, we go deeper. Our team employs advanced hacking techniques, making us a formidable challenge for malicious actors. Additionally, we offer personalized sessions with development teams to guide them through mitigation strategies and strengthen your API security.
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API Pentesting as a Service
We have collaborated with a variety of industries, including Airlines, Supply chains, Fintech, Health-tech, e-commerce, etc. We believe that a pentest will have the greatest impact on a company when the pentesting team has a thorough understanding of the web application’s API business logic. Therefore, we dedicate a specialized team to comprehending the business logic of the issue at hand.
Simulate Attacks to Evaluate Your Security Posture
Improve the speed and quality of API development.
Reduce testing costs without compromising security.
Intensive testing for data leaks and exploits over the API
Prevent Security Testing from Delaying Application Release, Eliminate Complexity through Vulnerability Management and Upgrades.
Test for business logic errors within APIs
Secure coding training for developers reduces the cost of security testing.
Monitoring dashboards for your web application’s API security posture
API VAPT
This team is now at your disposal to thoroughly hack into your systems and applications using the most effective industry-standard methods and tools.
Assess
Our penetration testers analyze your applications thoroughly and employ hacker-like thought processes to identify vulnerabilities, including zero-day vulnerabilities. Using the OWASP Web Security Testing Guide and SANS Application Security Standard methodologies, we provide in-depth manual security assessments that exceed the capabilities of vulnerability scanners.
Standards
We use industry-standard tools and global best practices to identify every security vulnerability. We approach each project by employing the same tools and methods as actual attackers in order to identify new risks. addressing regulations like NIST, OWASP, and SANS. Our penetration testing engineers are accredited and certified security professionals with credentials including CREST, CEH, and OSCP, among others.
Transform
Get a penetration testing and remediation report that is written in a developer-friendly language and is simple to implement. Reports are frequently insufficient due to the fact that not all vulnerabilities are immediately fixed, which is why we provide one-on-one meetings with security experts for developers with each report and detailed vulnerability fixing support for up to a year after testing with Oncall Advice.
Benefits for all Security Stakeholders
Chief Information Security Office and Security Team
We help you identify and mitigate risks proactively, meet compliance requirements faster, and improve application delivery agility. Our approach enhances collaboration with development teams, reduces testing costs, and ensures no compromise on quality. With greater control over testing programs, faster turnarounds, early detection and resolution of issues, and continuous monitoring, we empower your organization to stay secure and agile.
Chief Technology Officer & Product Development Team
We ensure early detection and remediation of security vulnerabilities, enhanced network security, and a risk-based approach to server management. Our process fosters seamless collaboration with security testing teams, delivers quick turnarounds, and leverages advanced analytics. Instead of just static PDF reports, we provide live sessions, detailed documentation, and comprehensive vulnerability lifecycle tracking to support your product development journey.
Chief Executive Office & Business Management
We help you achieve cost-effective compliance in a rapidly evolving regulatory environment while safeguarding your brand reputation. Our solutions offer predictable costs, transparent billing, and reduced administrative overhead, ensuring seamless business management.
Services
What do we check for when we conduct API security testing?
OWASP API Top 10
Examine APIs for the most common vulnerabilities.
We're Universal
Test for all types of APIs such as GraphQL, SOAP, RPC, REST etc
Load Testing
We go above and beyond everything security, Testing the flexibility of the API servers to make sure it’s secure it its truest form
Business Logic Vulnerabilities
Design and implementation faults in an application that enable an attacker to induce undesired behavior in an application
Updates and CVEs
Design and implementation faults in an application that enable an attacker to induce undesired behavior in an application
Source Code Review
Perform secure code reviews, both automated and manual, to discover security flaws in the application code.
Check for internal integrity
By implementing the appropriate data validation and error checking, you can ensure that sensitive data is never miscategorized or stored incorrectly
PII Disclosure
Information that can be revealed using factors that can be used to reliably identify a single surveyed individual, either on their own or in combination with additional variables.
Our testing searches for flaws in the back-end services that the app uses, in addition to looking for vulnerabilities in the app itself. We ensure that all components of the app are covered during testing by focusing on both the app and its back-end services.
To detect hard-to-find vulnerabilities, we use reverse engineering, binary, and file-level analysis, which goes considerably deeper than a standard penetration test.
These security testing activities may include but are not limited to:
Broken object-level authorization
Broken User Authentication
Excessive Data Exposure
Lack of Resources & Rate limiting
Broken Function level authorization
Mass Assignment
Security Misconfiguration
Injection
Improper Asset Management
Insufficient Logging & Monitoring
Steps Involved in API Security Testing
Threat Modelling
Our detailed threat profiling identifies potential vulnerabilities, risks, and threats specific to your application. This approach allows testers to create tailored test plans that simulate real-world attacks, uncovering genuine risks instead of the generic issues often flagged by automated scans. This ensures accurate results and eliminates false positives.
Application Mapping
We analyze your application’s structure and align it with the threat profile to uncover potential vulnerabilities. Key parameters include keychains, brute-force attacks, parameter tampering, malicious inputs, session IDs with time lockouts, error handling, and log access control. This comprehensive mapping ensures no critical aspect is overlooked.
Client-Side Risks
We focus on critical areas such as interactions with local storage, encryption practices, use of vulnerable modules, and insecure API calls during client-side attack simulations. By implementing robust access controls, these risks can be effectively identified and mitigated, ensuring a secure user experience.
Network-Side Risks
We simulate network-layer attacks to identify vulnerabilities in communication channels. By capturing network traffic and assessing transport-layer protection, we ensure data remains secure as it travels between your application and servers.
Server-Side Risks
Back-end systems like web services and APIs power your application’s core functionality. Our testing team conducts simulated attacks on these components to uncover vulnerabilities, ensuring your web application remains secure and resilient.
Database Risks
We assess back-end systems, including microservices, data storage, caching, and memory usage. Our focus is on ensuring secure encryption for sensitive data, such as authentication credentials and personally identifiable information, to protect your application against potential database vulnerabilities.
Steps Involved in API Pen Testing
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Information Gathering
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Information Analysis
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Vulnarability Detection
04
Penetration Testing
05
Privilege Escalation
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Result Analysis
07
Reporting
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Security Briefing Workshop
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Mitigation Support
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Complimentary Retesting
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Summary Report
Explore API Pentesting Strategy
Applications are evaluated before projects commence. In the subsequent phase, the team manually verifies the results of automated vulnerability scans. The team then identifies and exploits implementation errors and business logic manually.
API Security Testing Service Outputs
Detailed Report
The Pen Test report describes the exact vulnerabilities found on the platform, how they were discovered, the methodologies and tools used to find them, and any visual proof that was found. A security vulnerability risk rating must be included in the report for future reference. ” Recommendations for cleanup and how to carry them out
1:1 Workshop
Because vulnerabilities are not resolved promptly, static PDF Reports are insufficient. That’s why we offer a one-on-one workshop and security debrief between the security team and developers to ensure they understand significant and high-level vulnerabilities, as well as guidance on remediation and countermeasures, and assistance in learning how to avoid them in the future. We can conduct this debriefing face-to-face if necessary.
Retesting
We provide a free retest to ensure that the remedial actions were effective and done correctly. And, after applying all applicable updates, the system was able to fix the identified vulnerabilities without causing any new problems.
Secure Badge
We provide a gratis retesting service after the customer has implemented the recommended repair actions. We’ll provide you with a summary report after the project is completed, confirming that remedial measures have been taken. We also supply you with a service that warns you about new vulnerabilities for up to a year if it is judged to be satisfactory.
1:1 Advice On-call
We provide advice and assistance for up to a year after the complete report is filed, and we address any queries you may have regarding putting the recommendations into effect. This service is provided through developer-friendly channels like phone, email, zoom, meet, Slack, Jira, and teams.
Why choose Standardtouch API Security testing program
Local Security Policy Bypassing.
Remove Complexity with Vulnerability Management and Patching.
Remove Complexity with Vulnerability Management and Patching.
Increase the speed and quality with which developers deliver secure code.
Utilize dashboards to monitor the security posture and history of applications.
Utilize cybersecurity as a competitive advantage.
Our Technology Expertise
Apache JMeter
Postman
SoapUI
Nesses
Burp Suite
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is API pen testing?
It is a form of penetration testing of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) which play the key role in transmitting data and logic between applications, thereby assisting in speeding up the software development process. Since they are one of the primary targets in most cyber attacks, API pen testing is critical to strengthen their security and fortify them against real-world attackers. In this, the APIs are pen-tested using various methods, and standards such as PTES, OWASP, OSSTMM, and others on different parameters as defined in the scope.
What are the 5 phases of pen testing?
The 5 phases of pen testing include – planning, intel and recon gathering, identification of vulnerabilities, exploitation, analysis, and reporting.
What are the three types of pen tests?
The three main types of pen tests are – White box testing, black box testing, and gray box testing.
Why is API Pen testing important?
For an organization, API testing is important because of the following reasons:It improves the performance of the API, Helps you gain comprehensive insights into API specific vulnerabilities, Saves your organization’s reputation through trustworthy API security, Deploys world-class security measures to your API, Uses globally recognized methodologies like ISECOM, OWASP, and PTES, Saves you from remediation costs and application downtime , It improves the performance of the API
What are the Top Security Issues in API?
Some of the top vulnerabilities and threats to API are as follows: Incorrect caching headers, Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) Policies, CSRF, API Mass Assignment, API Authentication Vulnerabilities, XSS (Cross-site Scripting), Insecure Pagination and resource limits, Insecure API key generation, DDoS attacks , Unconfigured Server Security , Insufficient Logging and Monitoring, Low security for internal endpoints
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