In today's highly interconnected digital ecosystem, APIs play a crucial role in enabling communication and data exchange between various applications and services. However, due to their exposed nature and broad accessibility, APIs are a prime target for attackers. That's why it's critical to ensure your APIs are properly protected and resilient against attacks and vulnerabilities.
Our primary goal is to identify weaknesses in your APIs, uncover vulnerabilities, and help strengthen your overall system security. Through comprehensive penetration testing, we assess your APIs against a variety of attack scenarios, helping to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the data they handle.
Penetration Testing Methodology
Our structured approach to evaluating API security is based on a rigorous and widely recognized methodology. We begin with an in-depth review of your APIs, analyzing all entry points and functions. We then assess common attack vectors, including authentication, input validation, session management, and injection prevention.
Once potential vulnerabilities are identified, we perform simulated attacks using advanced techniques and tools. These real-world scenarios allow us to evaluate your APIs security posture. We work closely with your development and security teams to share findings and provide clear, actionable remediation guidance.
What do we test in an API Penetration Test?
Our testing has two main components. First, we evaluate your APIs against the OWASP API Top 10 (2023):
- 1. Broken Object Level Authorization: Verifies if APIs properly enforce object-level permissions.
- 2. Broken Authentication: Tests authentication mechanisms for weaknesses and token handling flaws.
- 3. Broken Object Property Level Authorization: Ensures that users can only access and manipulate data they own.
- 4. Unrestricted Resource Consumption: Tests rate limiting and resource usage under stress scenarios.
- 5. Broken Function Level Authorization: Validates access controls for administrative or privileged endpoints.
- 6. Unrestricted Access to Sensitive Business Flows: Identifies abuse scenarios from automation or misuse of logical flows.
- 7. Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF): Checks if user-controlled URLs allow server-side connections to internal resources.
- 8. Security Misconfiguration: Audits insecure default settings or improper deployment configurations.
- 9. Improper Inventory Management: Evaluates API versioning, documentation, and endpoint exposure.
- 10. Unsafe Consumption of APIs: Reviews the trust assumptions and input validation for third-party APIs.
Beyond OWASP, we test for additional modern vulnerabilities, including:
- Authentication flaws
- Directory traversal
- Business logic vulnerabilities
- Information disclosure
- Access control misconfigurations
- Insecure file upload mechanisms
- XXE (XML External Entity)
- CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)
- IDOR (Insecure Direct Object Reference)
- CORS misconfigurations
- XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
- Clickjacking
- DOM-based vulnerabilities
- WebSocket security issues
- Insecure deserialization
- Server-Side Template Injection
- Web cache poisoning
- HTTP Host header injection
- HTTP request smuggling
- OAuth-related vulnerabilities
- Subdomain takeover
What do you get?
Upon completion of the penetration test, you'll receive a clear set of deliverables, including:
Executive Report: Tailored for business stakeholders, this report explains risks in plain, non-technical language, helping decision-makers prioritize and allocate resources effectively.
Technical Report:
Designed for your IT/security team, this report provides in-depth details on each vulnerability,
how it was discovered, proof of concept exploitation steps, and detailed remediation guidance.
We dont stop at generic recommendations. Our team takes time to understand your business, your tech
stack, and your unique challenges to provide meaningful solutions.
You’ll also receive our monthly client newsletter featuring practical security tips, awareness training resources, and partner
discounts.
Where do we operate?
Based in Mexico City, but we deliver remote testing services throughout Mexico, whenever secure remote access or a virtual environment is available.
Do we work with international clients?
Yes. We've conducted penetration tests in Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Asia.
