Company
Date Published
Author
Detectify
Word count
745
Language
-
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Application environments have grown increasingly complex, with APIs becoming essential yet also exposing a significant attack surface. Security teams face challenges in complying with frameworks like PCI and SOC 2, which mandate API scanning but provide minimal guidance. Detectify introduces an advanced API Scanning feature integrated into its platform, aiming to solve these challenges with a proprietary engine that offers dynamic payloads for unique scans, scalable and reproducible results, and high-fidelity findings driven by an internal research team. This approach ensures comprehensive API visibility and broad vulnerability coverage, including issues from the OWASP API Top 10, while meeting compliance requirements and streamlining workflows by integrating the scanning process into existing security programs. The Detectify API scanner differentiates itself by not relying on existing open-source tools but instead utilizing a novel method that emphasizes exploitability and minimizes false positives, thus offering actionable insights to developers.