What is API penetration testing?

API penetration testing involves challenging an API's security by launching different attacks from a potential hacker's perspective, such as injection attacks, authentication and access control bypassing, rate limit testing, mass assignment issues, and other attacks.

It predominantly includes testing the API's input validation, error handling, encryption capabilities, and other controls. The main objective is to identify vulnerabilities and recommend improvements to the security of the API, ensuring it is protected against common attack vectors listed on OWASP API Top 10.

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API pentest services

Penetration testing for REST APIs, GraphQL, SOAP and other stacks. Evaluate the security readiness of your AWS-hosted APIs and microservices.

Blaze's API application penetration testing assessments are suitable for microservices and API backends hosted in AWS and beyond. The service is performed by our penetration testers in a manual fashion, augmented by automated scanners and custom tools. We go beyond common issues listed in OWASP API Top 10, and cover business logic issues tailored to your system. Our team follow industry standards such as PTES, OSSTMM and OWASP ASVS practices to ensure ample coverage in the assessments we perform.

The penetration test assessment enables you to identify security vulnerabilities in your APIs and their associated web applications, with the necessary recommendations to remediate and fix the issues to improve your overall resilience against cyberattacks.

Our pen test offer include the following services, which can be hired individually or separately:

• REST API penetration testing
• GraphQL penetration testing
• SOAP and webservices penetration testing
• Microservices penetration testing
• Pentest for open banking and PSD2 APIs

The average duration for this service is between 5 to 15 person-days, depending on the complexity of the scope of work.

The API penetration testing service has the following minimum coverage, based on OWASP Top 10:

• Broken Object Level Authorization (IDORs and access control issues)
• Broken User Authentication
• Excessive Data Exposure
• Lack of Resources & Rate Limiting
• Broken Function Level Authorization
• Mass Assignment
• Security Misconfiguration
• Injection (SQL injection, HTML injection, template injection, and more)
• Improper Assets Management
• Insufficient Logging & Monitoring
• Business logic issues

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Deliverables

Blaze will provide your organization with a detailed report listing all the vulnerabilities and weaknesses in your application, from the perspective of a motivated and capable adversary.

The report includes the following:

• Executive summary where the issues, attack scenarios and business impact are explained in a non-technical language
• A detailed description of the vulnerabilities, demonstration of attack scenarios and suggestions for fixing the issues
• A remediation prioritization matrix, helping your team to prioritize fixes and decrease risks to the environment

Reports are delivered within 5 business days from the completion of the security assessment. Retesting is free if performed within 90 days from the delivery of the final report.

The reports can be used for vendor risk assessments and compliance audits that frequently require penetration testing, such as SOC 2, CPRA/CCPA, GDPR, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, ISO 27001 and others.

Contact us

Contact us to build a custom quote for your API security requirements. Prices starting at $7,500. We offer special discounts for early-stage startups and small businesses.

Request a pentest today: https://www.blazeinfosec.com/penetration-test-quote-form

Email: sales@blazeinfosec.com

Phone: +1 347 892 4783 (US/Canada)

Phone: +351 222 081 647 (Europe/international)

Our services are insured worldwide by Hiscox with a professional liability (E&O) cover of 5,000,000 USD. Blaze is an ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certified company.