API SECURITY TESTING SERVICES
Protect your Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) with Vumetric’s API security testing services. Find and fix vulnerabilities in authentication, data management, and encryption in your APIs. Adhere to OWASP API Security Top 10 standards to safeguard against data breaches in your API-based applications, including both web and mobile platforms.
What you'll get:
- Executive Summary: High-level insights into API security for decision makers.
- Simplified Report: Comprehensive reporting on API vulnerabilities.
- Mitigation solutions: Address critical API issues and enforce best practices.
- Best Practices Guidance: Step-by-step advice to correct detected API flaws.
- Attestation: To meet compliance requirements (PCI-DSS, ISO/IEC 27001, etc.)
What is API security testing?
API Security Testing is a thorough process where we meticulously evaluate your APIs. This testing is crucial because APIs, which allow different software applications to communicate with each other, can be prime targets for cyberattacks. If an API is compromised, it can lead to severe consequences such as data breaches, unauthorized data access, and other security incidents. During this process, we closely examine various aspects of your APIs, including authentication, authorization, data handling, and error handling.
What sets Vumetric apart is our dual approach combining automated scans with expert manual analysis. Vumetric utilizes advanced automated scanning tools to quickly identify known vulnerabilities and configuration issues in the APIs. These tools can efficiently scan large amounts of code and identify potential weaknesses.
Alongside automated scans, Vumetric employs expert cybersecurity analysts to conduct manual testing. This approach allows for the identification of complex issues that automated tools might miss. Manual analysis includes techniques like penetration testing, where analysts simulate attacks to test the API’s resilience.
This ensures a deep and detailed assessment of your API’s security, crucial for robust protection and compliance with key standards like OWASP.
Why Should You Perform API security testing?
- Ubiquitous API Integration: APIs are now fundamental in global systems, making their security crucial for linking different technologies safely.
- Advanced Threat Tactics: Cyber attackers are constantly refining their methods, targeting APIs with increasingly sophisticated techniques, necessitating advanced security responses.
- Regulatory Dynamics: We continuously adapt to evolving data protection laws like GDPR and HIPAA to ensure API compliance and avoid penalties.
- Microservices Architecture: The rise in microservices, with each having its own APIs, introduces complex security challenges, increasing the points of vulnerability.
- API-specific Vulnerabilities: We focus on addressing risks unique to APIs, such as endpoint exposure and injection attacks, through targeted security strategies.
- Digital Transformation Pressure: The rapid shift to digital operations escalates API reliance and associated risks, requiring swift and robust security measures.
How Does API Security Testing Secure My Web Services?
- Robust API Defense and Compliance: Strengthening your APIs against cyber threats while ensuring compliance with standards like PCI-DSS and GDPR.
- Data Protection: Safeguarding sensitive data transmitted through APIs to reduce the risk of breaches and security incidents.
- Expert Recommendations: Providing access to Vumetric’s specialized API security knowledge for improved security strategies.
- Technical Insights: Offering deeper insights into API vulnerabilities and security aspects for better understanding and response.
- Customized Security Roadmap: Creating a tailored plan for enhancing your API security posture with the latest techniques.
- Innovative Practices and Learning: Applying advanced security practices and enabling continuous learning and improvement in API security management.
What Will be Assessed During API Security Testing?
- Authentication & Authorization: Verifying secure access control mechanisms.
- Data Validation & Processing: Ensuring proper handling of user-supplied data.
- Error Handling & Logging: Checking for adequate error reporting and logging.
- Encryption & Security Protocols: Evaluation of data encryption in transit.
- Rate Limiting & Throttling: Assessing measures against DoS attacks.
- Third-Party Integration Security: Reviewing security of external API connections.
Key Benefits of API Security Testing
API security testing is a critical component of a comprehensive cybersecurity risk management strategy. Here are the key benefits:
Streamlined API Operations
Enhancing the efficiency and performance of your API ecosystem
Reliability in API Interactions
Ensuring dependable and uninterrupted API services
Reduced Downtime
Minimizing the risk of API-related outages or performance issues
Competitive Edge
Gaining a market advantage through superior API security
Innovation Safeguarding
Protecting the integrity of your innovative API-driven projects
Market Reputation
Strengthening customer trust and enhancing your brand's reputation for prioritizing API security
OWASP Top 10 API Vulnerabilities
Our API Penetration Testing combines both automatic and in-depth manual testing techniques. We use OWASP’s API security standard as a baseline for our testing methodology in order to identify vulnerabilities unique to each API.
- Broken Object Level Authorization
- Broken Function Level Authorization
- Broken User Authentication
- Excessive Data Exposure
- Mass Assignment
- Security Misconfiguration
- Injection
- Improper Assets Management
- Insufficient Logging & Monitoring
- Lack of Resources & Rate Limiting
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Our API Security Testing Methodology
Our API security testing approach is based on manual techniques and goes beyond a typical scan, allowing you to identify complex vulnerabilities present in modern APIs. Here is a breakdown of our approach divided into three distinct types of tests:
Security Assessment
Our experts validate that your API meets various security requirements. For instance, authorization parameters and data access conditions are assessed to determine how the API handles permissions.
Penetration Testing
We attempt to breach your API by circumventing user privileges and bypassing authentication functions to identify technical vulnerabilities that allow hackers to further infiltrate your systems.
Fuzzing
Using various attack methods commonly deployed by hackers, we manipulate API requests and parameters to identify vulnerabilities that can be exploited to compromise your security.
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Why Choose Vumetric For API Security Testing?
Vumetric is an ISO9001-certified boutique provider entirely dedicated to pen test, with more than 15 years of experience in the industry. Our methodologies are proven and our understanding of cybersecurity risks is extensive, allowing us to provide clear advice to our clients that is pragmatic, adapted to their needs and efficient in securing against any malicious attacker.
Proven Methodology & Expertise
Our proven testing methodologies are based on industry best practices and standards.
ExperiencedTeam
Our team of certified penetration testers conducts more than 400 pentest projects annually.
Actionable Results
We provide quality reports with actionable recommendations to fix identified vulnerabilities.
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Read Our Clients' Success Stories
Discover how our pentest services helped organization of all kinds improve their cybersecurity:
“ Vumetric conducted penetration testing and showed us where we were vulnerable. They made the process smooth, were very responsive and well organized. They really impressed us as specialists in their field. ”
" Vumetric Cybersecurity was able to complete their tests and provide the client with detailed reports that included issues and remedies. The team was highly proactive and communicative, and internal stakeholders were particularly impressed with Vumetric Cybersecurity's cost-effective approach. ”
“ Vumetric performed manual and automated security testing of our systems. They met our deadlines and kept us updated throughout the testing process. Their presentation of findings and recommendations was engaging and effective. ”
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