StackHawk has announced API Discovery Powered by HawkAI, an AI driven feature, that they state gives security teams a more efficient way to understand their organisation’s attack surface.
StackHawk claims that HawkAI not only uncovers and recommends which APIs and applications to bring under test, but also boosts teamwork between security and developer teams, giving businesses the critical insights they need.
Security leaders are grappling with a critical concern: understanding and accurately identifying their API and application attack surfaces. Achieving sufficient security testing coverage is the number one priority.
According to market insights from research analyst Melinda Marks, Practice Director, Cybersecurity, for Enterprise Strategy Group, “87% of respondents are concerned about shadow and undiscovered APIs, with 38% considering it a significant concern and 49% viewing it as a moderate concern”, as shared in The Urgency of Addressing API Security in an Application Security Program.
StackHawk believes that their approach to API discovery leverages source code as the source of truth to obtain the full scope of an organisation’s APIs and applications.
As such, they believe that they can offer a level of visibility, previously unavailable for AppSec teams to understand their organisation’s attack surface.
StackHawk insists that they provide a prioritised view on which APIs and applications to bring under test to boost overall operational efficiency of your AppSec testing program while fostering improved workflows with development teams.
“Many security teams are struggling to keep pace with the rapid development of APIs,” said Joni Klippert, CEO of StackHawk. “Our internal analysis reveals that a significant portion of APIs go untested simply because they are undiscovered. API Discovery powered by HawkAI solves this problem by automatically identifying all APIs within an organisation’s code repositories, giving security teams a complete picture of their attack surface.”
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