What is API security?
Effective API security ensures that sensitive data, systems, and applications remain protected from unauthorized access, abuse, and breaches.
Reduce security blind spots with an expertly trained, AI-infused discovery platform that finds and inventories all API assets, pinpoints sensitive data in transit, links APIs to owners and functions and provides insights into your API security posture.
Enforce corporate API standards with AI-driven insights that assess and prioritize the riskiest API assets. Adopt industry best practices using pre-built policy templates and an expansive API policy library to reduce risk and simplify compliance.
Save time and resources with hyper accurate API-specific vulnerability testing achieved through seamless integration of best-of-breed DAST with up-to-date specs, business logic, and API configuration data. Ensure 100% coverage of the OWASP API Security Top 10 list.
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Why API Discovery is essential for effective API security.
Identify all APIs, including undocumented, shadow and zombie APIs or those which are not even present in API gateways or OpenAPI specifications to gain full visibility over the API ecosystem. Protect sensitive data, such as PII, that may be exposed through undiscovered APIs.
Granular API details, including parameters, usage patterns, risk scores, and sensitive data exposure, provide a clear understanding of an attack surface and risk profile. Dynamic Documentation Maintenance keeps API documentation up-to-date by continuously comparing discovered APIs with existing records.
Advanced filtering and querying capabilities derive custom, context-rich insights into API behavior. Comprehensive Risk Evaluations assess potential risks associated with each API, including vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and sensitive data exposure.
Automatic DAST scans analyze APIs using Postman collection files, Open API descriptions, recorded traffic, or via seamless integrations with leading API testing tools. IAST API Monitoring detects and catalogs all internal APIs via IAST API calls. SCA scans open-source packages in API development to identify vulnerable third-party API components.
Discovery insights create and customize posture governance policies, using an advanced API Posture Governance engine. Extend existing IT security policies and/or apply pre-built or custom rules to ensure consistent security measures like authentication, authorization and input validation for all APIs.
Posture governance engine analyzes API risks within the IT ecosystem. Risk prioritization is based on business impact, allowing organizations to focus on remediating the most critical vulnerabilities. Posture checks can be embedded into CI/CD pipelines during API design, enabling faster remediation aligned with DevSecOps practices.
What is API security?
How can you secure APIs?
What is a Shadow API?
What is Zombie API?
Can HCL AppScan test APIs without source code?
What makes HCL AppScan different from other API security tools?