Built for Modern, API-First Teams
Deep, human-led, premium API penetration testing at scale.
Today's apps are powered by APIs-and that's where attackers strike first. Our platform delivers human-led API pentests that simulate real-world abuse across REST, GraphQL, and internal services. You'll get real-time insights, detailed coverage reports, and remediation support from experts-all tracked inside one unified dashboard.
Cut API Risk Exposure by Up to 50%
Real-time findings. Faster triage. Cleaner compliance.
Trusted by modern teams-from funded startups to listed enterprises
Why Are APIs a Top Target for Attackers?
APIs are the backbone of modern software-connecting mobile apps, web platforms, cloud services, and third-party integrations. But with that power comes risk.
Exposed Attack Surface
Because APIs expose data and business logic over the internet, they're increasingly exploited for unauthorized access, data leakage, and account takeovers.
Critical Business Logic
Whether you're managing user sessions, processing payments, or integrating with partners, your APIs are handling sensitive logic-and attackers know it.
The Top API Security Risks We Test For
Our comprehensive testing covers the most critical API vulnerabilities that put your business at risk.
Broken Authentication & Authorization
Testing for weak authentication mechanisms and authorization bypasses that could grant unauthorized access.
Insecure Object References (IDOR)
Identifying direct object reference vulnerabilities that allow access to unauthorized data or functions.
Injection Attacks (SQL, JSON, XML, etc.)
Comprehensive testing for various injection vulnerabilities across all input vectors.
Lack of Rate Limiting & Abuse Protection
Assessing protective mechanisms against automated attacks and resource abuse.
External API Pentesting
Simulate real-world attacks against your public-facing APIs.
Beyond OWASP API Top 10
External APIs are the most exposed part of your architecture. We perform manual, in-depth testing on REST, GraphQL, and third-party-facing APIs to uncover hidden security flaws before attackers do.
Real-World Attack Scenarios
Our testing simulates privilege escalation via token tampering, mass data scraping via broken rate limits, and chained logic attacks through multi-step endpoints.
Internal API Pentesting
Expose and fix the hidden risks behind your firewall.
Beyond Basic Security
Internal APIs often power microservices, CI/CD workflows, and back-office operations-but they're rarely tested with the same rigor as public APIs.
Comprehensive Internal Testing
Our manual internal API penetration testing simulates insider threats, misconfigured services, and chained logic flaws that could lead to privilege escalation or sensitive data leaks.
API Vulnerabilities We Commonly Find
Our testing uncovers the most critical internal API security gaps that traditional scanning misses.
Input Validation & Sanitization Flaws
Identifying improper input handling that could lead to data corruption or system compromise.
Broken Session or Token Handling
Testing authentication mechanisms and session management for internal services.
Business Logic Abuse Across Endpoints
Uncovering logic flaws that could be chained together for unauthorized operations.
Security Misconfigurations
Finding configuration issues in dev/test environments that could expose production systems.
Features
All the tools you need for faster, smarter pentesting at scale.
No scanners. Just verified results.
No scanners. Just real humans.
Every test on our PTaaS platform combines real-world attack simulations with expert insights to uncover deep, logic-based flaws that scanners miss-delivering trustworthy results at platform speed and scale.
Continuous Pentesting
Security that evolves with your code.
Re-test vulnerabilities, validate fixes, and assess new changes continuously-not just once a year.
Jira, Slack & GitHub Integrations
Send findings directly to your team.
Auto-sync vulnerabilities with Jira, push alerts to Slack, and integrate with your CI/CD for faster remediation.
Real-Time Findings Dashboard
Track risks as they're discovered.
Get live visibility into vulnerabilities, remediation status, and test progress-all in a central PTaaS dashboard.
Compliance-Ready Reporting
Support SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA & more.
Download audit-aligned reports with mapped vulnerabilities, remediation notes, and timelines that satisfy compliance frameworks.
API & Application Coverage
Built for modern stacks-REST, GraphQL, SPAs.
We test APIs, web apps, and cloud-native systems with a methodology aligned to OWASP Top 10 and business logic abuse cases.
No scanners. Just verified results.
No scanners. Just real humans.
Every test on our PTaaS platform combines real-world attack simulations with expert insights to uncover deep, logic-based flaws that scanners miss-delivering trustworthy results at platform speed and scale.
Continuous Pentesting
Security that evolves with your code.
Re-test vulnerabilities, validate fixes, and assess new changes continuously-not just once a year.
Jira, Slack & GitHub Integrations
Send findings directly to your team.
Auto-sync vulnerabilities with Jira, push alerts to Slack, and integrate with your CI/CD for faster remediation.
Real-Time Findings Dashboard
Track risks as they're discovered.
Get live visibility into vulnerabilities, remediation status, and test progress-all in a central PTaaS dashboard.
Compliance-Ready Reporting
Support SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA & more.
Download audit-aligned reports with mapped vulnerabilities, remediation notes, and timelines that satisfy compliance frameworks.
API & Application Coverage
Built for modern stacks-REST, GraphQL, SPAs.
We test APIs, web apps, and cloud-native systems with a methodology aligned to OWASP Top 10 and business logic abuse cases.
FAQ
API Penetration Testing involves simulating attacks on your APIs to identify vulnerabilities such as broken authentication, injection flaws, insecure endpoints, and improper rate limiting. It helps secure REST, GraphQL, and other web APIs from real-world threats.
We test RESTful APIs, GraphQL APIs, internal microservice APIs, and third-party integrations. Each test is tailored to the specific protocol, architecture, and use case of the API in question.
Providing Postman collections, Swagger/OpenAPI specs, or other API documentation helps speed up testing and ensures full coverage-but we can also work without them by performing endpoint discovery and dynamic analysis.
Yes, we simulate broken authentication, token misuse, privilege escalation, and horizontal/vertical authorization bypass scenarios to validate access controls and session management mechanisms.
Absolutely. Our testers go beyond technical flaws and analyze business workflows to find logical flaws such as price manipulation, order tampering, privilege misuse, or excessive data exposure.
Yes, we perform advanced GraphQL-specific tests including introspection abuse, injection attacks, batching misuse, and query depth/complexity attacks to ensure complete security.
Yes. Our platform offers real-time updates on vulnerabilities, with risk ratings, remediation guidance, and collaboration features to triage findings as they’re discovered.
We follow OWASP API Security Top 10, OWASP Web Security Testing Guide, and industry best practices to ensure your APIs are tested thoroughly and in compliance with regulatory needs.
We recommend testing APIs during major updates, before deployments, and regularly during development sprints. Our PTaaS model supports scheduled and on-demand testing to align with your CI/CD workflow.
Yes. We provide detailed reports, mitigation steps, and offer follow-up retesting to ensure that issues have been fixed correctly and your APIs remain secure.
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