Invicti has announced Invicti API Security, stating it has merged comprehensive API discovery with proactive security testing into a single solution.

The growth of service-based architectures has driven an explosion in APIs, creating yet another expanding attack surface for security teams to address.

As development teams embrace the productivity benefits of AI code assistants, API creation accelerates further. But while AI code assistants are boosting developer productivity, they cannot yet generate secure application code or secure APIs consistently, propagating the risk from vulnerable APIs deployed into today’s web services. 

According to ESG’s report Securing The API Attack Surface, 76% of organisations report having an average of 26 APIs per application deployed. Many of these APIs are undocumented and unmonitored, so the security challenge is now about confidently and quickly finding APIs, testing them for vulnerabilities, and performing remediation.

With Invicti API Security, the company believes that organisations can realise comprehensive API discovery alongside proactive API security testing. 

Invicti insists that their API Security release includes multiple discovery methods to enable comprehensive identification of known and undocumented APIs, including:

• Zero-configuration discovery to identify API specifications, scanning cloud environments for accessible paths 
• API management system integrations to fetch and sync accurate and latest API specifications into inventory
• Network API traffic analysis to identify and reconstruct API calls into API definition files based on observed traffic

“With the Invicti Platform’s extensive API discovery capabilities, we are able to deliver a tool consolidation option, combining web application and API security into a single solution,” said Neil Roseman, CEO at Invicti. “As tool sprawl and budgetary constraints grow, CISOs can rely on the Invicti solution to address the growing API security concerns in addition to reducing their team’s tool complexity.”

“Our research shows that security leaders are increasingly concerned with API security and their ability to secure their customers’ sensitive data,” added Melinda Marks, Practice Director, Cybersecurity at ESG. This is because as developers build feature-rich applications with integrations and communications to resources, the APIs, especially unknown shadow APIs, create rapidly proliferating attack surfaces.

“The Invicti approach applies a multi-layer discovery method to thoroughly identify APIs, helping organisations deliver secure applications.”

Invicti API Security is available to Invicti customers across both Acunetix and Invicti (formerly Netsparker) product lines to extend their use of the Invicti platform. New customers can purchase the product as a web application and API security combination, or a standalone API Security option.

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