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All in one place: Discovery and security testing across your APIs and applications
With Invicti’s groundbreaking API Security offering on the Invicti Platform, you have the industry’s first comprehensive solution for discovery and dynamic security testing across web applications and APIs. This integration allows you to seamlessly secure your entire web attack surface within a single platform.
The Challenge: APIs—A Hidden Vulnerability
Research shows that organizations typically manage 26 APIs per app, yet only 25% accurately inventory them. As APIs become more embedded in web applications to accelerate development, merely tracking them is daunting—let alone ensuring rigorous security testing. APIs often pose a significant security risk due to fragmented tools and processes, leaving them vulnerable.
The Solution: Multi-Layered API Discovery
Invicti introduces multi-layered API discovery to combat this challenge within our leading security testing platform. This innovation enhances your ability to discover, test, and remediate API vulnerabilities, offering comprehensive visibility across your attack surface. Now, AppSec can be proactive rather than reactive.
Tackling the API and Tool Sprawl Dilemma
With hundreds of millions of APIs handling billions of requests annually, managing and securing them is a significant challenge. Platforms like Postman host over 120 million API collections, with 1.29 billion API requests created between May 2023 and May 2024. APIs are increasing at an unprecedented rate, making it difficult to manage and secure them effectively.
Invicti’s API discovery capability addresses this by providing visibility and reducing risks from vulnerable APIs in modern web services. Recognizing the uniqueness of each application environment, our API Security employs a layered discovery approach, integrating several methods into one tool:
- Zero-configuration option: Quickly identify API specifications by scanning cloud environments.
- API management system integrations: Ensure teams always sync the latest API specifications.
- Network API traffic analysis: Identify and reconstruct API definitions in container deployments.
These integrated discovery layers within the Invicti Platform enhance the coverage and visibility of your attack surface without adding more tools. “As tool sprawl and budgetary constraints grow, CISOs can rely on Invicti to address growing API security concerns and reduce tooling complexity,” explains Invicti CEO Neil Roseman.
Simplifying Security with Unified API Discovery and Testing
The Invicti Platform, designed for accuracy and automation, addresses this with features like proof-based scanning and extensive integrations with industry-standard tools, ensuring vulnerabilities are promptly reported.
Invicti’s API discovery bridges the gap between known specifications and real-world attack surfaces, uncovering and testing applications and APIs that might go unnoticed. With defined, discovered, and prioritized assets, the DAST-based testing provides comprehensive, technology-agnostic coverage without sacrificing accuracy.
Seamless Integration for Comprehensive Security
Combining discovery and security testing within a single platform reduces tool sprawl and offers unprecedented visibility into your security status. This integration makes API discovery a seamless part of your broader application security process, ensuring the most accurate information about your APIs.
Enhanced Proactive Security and Risk Management
Adequate security requires deeper insights for proactive risk management. Better discovery, accurate testing, and integrated remediation within the Invicti Platform translate into fewer reactive measures once in production. Early identification and remediation of issues with web applications and APIs save time and resources, preventing costly security incidents.
Invicti’s Predictive Risk Scoring, API discovery, and web application security testing provide advanced prioritization intelligence, helping you focus on what matters most. Integrated with your existing toolchains, Invicti’s solutions become your go-to platform for comprehensive AppSec.
Invicti – Comprehensive API Security Solution
Experience how Invicti’s API Security solution, with advanced discovery capabilities, can transform your security strategy. Learn more today and take the first step toward proactive, unified security management.


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