Web API Security Testing

Reduce risk across your REST, GraphQL and SOAP/WSDL APIs by testing real endpoints, preventing data leaks, unauthorized access and business logic abuse.

  • Broad API support: REST/OpenAPI, GraphQL and SOAP/WSDL, plus business logic testing with the Agentic Deep Scan
  • Bring or discover your API surface: upload OpenAPI, GraphQL or WSDL schemas, or let the scan discover endpoints from your web app
  • Test what’s actually exposed: validate authentication, authorization, data access and logic against real request/response behavior, with API keys or tokens passed as HTTP headers

How Web API Security Works

Web API security protects your applications by

Analyze API Endpoints

Analyzing API endpoints and backend logic for misconfigurations, weak authentication, and exposed sensitive data

Automated Validation

Automated validation of vulnerabilities to reduce false positives

Abuse Scenarios

Testing real-world abuse scenarios and business logic attack paths

Actionable Web API Security Integrated Into Your Development Process

Ostorlab offers Web API security that provides continuous testing and actionable insights, helping teams detect, validate, and remediate issues faster

Prevent Data Exposure & Abuse

Detect vulnerabilities that could leak PII or allow unauthorized access.

Confidence in Production Releases

Ensure new API endpoints and backend changes don’t introduce security gaps.

Proof-backed Validation

Actionable findings with proof-backed validation for faster fixes

Comprehensive Coverage

Comprehensive coverage across API endpoints, backend systems, and data flows

Integrated Workflows

Continuous security integrated directly into development workflows

Developer-friendly Reporting

Developer-friendly reporting for audit-ready compliance and risk management

Seamless Integrations with Your Tech Stack

Don't let security become a bottleneck. Ostorlab integrates directly with the tools your development and security teams already use, ensuring that vulnerability management is automated, traceable, and fast.

  • JiraJira
  • LinearLinear
  • JenkinsJenkins
  • GitHubGitHub
  • GitLabGitLab
  • BitbucketBitbucket
  • SAMLSAML
  • Azure DevOpsAzure DevOps
  • CircleCICircleCI
  • GoCDGoCD
  • TeamCityTeamCity
  • OktaOkta
  • Google WorkspaceGoogle Workspace
  • OneLoginOneLogin
  • Azure Active DirectoryAzure Active Directory
  • SlackSlack
  • VantaVanta
  • ServiceNowServiceNow
  • BitriseBitrise
  • HarnessHarness

Why Teams Choose Us

Support, Scalability, Transparency

Accompanied at Every Step

Hands-on guidance and support from onboarding to outcome to ensure seamless usage of features evolved through customer feedback.

Free Unlimited Invites

Collaborate without constraints by adding as many profiles as needed per application, enabling teams to work together seamlessly with no user number restrictions and no additional costs.

No Hidden Fees

Simple, transparent pricing with no hidden costs. Know what you pay for, and back it with a full refund guarantee if unsatisfied.

Attack paths

How findings here chain into the rest of your product

An API that trusts too much is often only exploitable through the app that calls it. Scan the API together with the web app, mobile app and code that use it, and the agent tests the path through them, not each piece alone.

See how attack-path testing works
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  3. Source codeMissingowner check
  4. Mobile appAuth flowotp_step_up
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Before you start

What to expect from Web API security testing

No mobile app needed. Start from an API endpoint, with or without a schema file.

What you get

  • Findings with the exact request and response, or stack trace, that triggered them.
  • With the Web Deep Agentic Scan on an API target, findings validated with a proof-of-concept exploit, including business-logic testing.
  • PDF reports (full, executive summary or mapped to compliance standards), and findings pushed to Jira, Slack or your CI/CD pipeline.

What you need

  • The API endpoint URL.
  • Ideally a schema file: OpenAPI, GraphQL or WSDL. It gives the scanner the full list of endpoints.
  • If the API requires authentication, API keys or tokens passed as HTTP headers (for example X-API-KEY), or other test credentials.
  • For internal APIs, an on-premises scanner (Linux or macOS) inside your network, or Ostorlab's scanning IPs allowlisted.

What it covers

  • REST with OpenAPI, GraphQL, and SOAP with WSDL.
  • Authentication and authorization, including BOLA and BFLA, injection, and business-logic abuse.
  • Sensitive data in traffic: PII, secrets and overly verbose error messages.

What it doesn't cover

  • Without a schema, the scan tests the endpoints it can discover, for example by crawling your web app.
  • Authorization flaws such as BOLA and BFLA are tested when you provide credentials or tokens.
  • The Full scan profile detects business-logic flaws with basic heuristics only. Full business-logic testing, attack chaining and proof-of-concept exploits come with the Web Deep Agentic Scan.

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