Penetration TestingYour APIs answer anyone who sends them a request, not only your apps. An attacker watches the calls your front-end makes, then changes an ID to read another customer's data, adds a field to raise their own privileges or calls endpoints the interface never shows. We test your APIs with the same techniques.
REQUEST THIS SERVICEREST, GraphQL, SOAP, gRPC and WebSocket APIs. We run many more checks than we can list here: for example, we look at how each API authenticates its callers, with JWTs, API keys or OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect flows, how tokens are issued, verified, expired and revoked, how input is validated and whether the business logic behind each endpoint can be bypassed.
We follow the OWASP Web Security Testing Guide (WSTG), which our team has contributed to as authors, reviewers and translators, together with the requirements of the OWASP Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS). The risks in the OWASP API Security Top 10 are only a small part of what we check, and on top of the methodology we add tests aimed at the most recent classes of vulnerabilities.
We check whether one user can read or change another user's data by swapping an identifier, whether a lower role can call functions meant for administrators, and whether the API returns more fields than it should or accepts fields it should ignore, the flaws known as excessive data exposure and mass assignment.
An API that doesn't limit how often it can be called, or how much work a single request can trigger, can be abused at scale. We check both, and on GraphQL APIs we also look at introspection, batching and nested queries, which an attacker can use to map the schema, get around those limits or extract more data than intended.
You receive a report written and signed off by our testers, with verified findings, CVSS scores, remediation guidance and a proof of concept wherever the issue is exploitable. On request, we map each finding to the OWASP API Security Top 10 or to the ASVS. We walk your team through the results and retest to confirm each issue is closed.
We share some of what we learn in the field. On our newsroom, for example, we have published a complete guide to CORS (in)security, which explains how misconfigured cross-origin rules let other websites read your API's responses, and shown how an Amazon Cognito misconfiguration we came across during a penetration test can lead to an authorization bypass.
To help your developers fix what we find and keep it out of the next releases, we also run secure development courses for web, Java, .NET and PHP developers, and one on writing secure code with AI coding assistants.
We are an Italian security company focused on cloud and application security. Our services draw on years of penetration testing, consulting, training and research.
FAQ
What clients usually ask us before we test their APIs.
The API specification (an OpenAPI or Swagger file, a Postman collection, the GraphQL schema, the WSDL or the .proto files) and at least two test accounts for each role. Sample requests, or access to the web or mobile app that uses the APIs, help us understand the flows. We also ask you to allowlist our IP addresses on the WAF or API gateway of the test environment, so that we test the API itself and not just the filter in front of it.
Yes, but coverage then depends on what we manage to discover, and an endpoint nobody tells us about may stay out of the test. That is why even a partial list of endpoints is worth sending.
Yes. Whenever a mobile app or a web front-end talks to a back-end, our test also covers the APIs it uses. A dedicated API test is the right choice when others call those APIs directly as well, such as customers or partners integrating with you, or when there is no front-end at all.
We don't run load tests or denial-of-service attacks, and we check rate limits and resource consumption without overloading the service. If we test in production, we also agree on time windows with you and leave out destructive tests.
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