API Security Assessment
Comprehensive testing of API endpoints and integrations
In scope
- API inventory and documentation review (OpenAPI / GraphQL schemas)
- Authentication and token handling (OAuth 2.0, JWT, API keys)
- Object- and function-level authorization testing (OWASP API Security Top 10)
- Input validation, mass assignment and injection testing
- Rate limiting, quotas and abuse resistance
- Gateway, logging and monitoring configuration review
You receive
- API security report mapped to the OWASP API Security Top 10
- Reproducible findings with requests and responses
- Remediation guidance for developers and platform teams
- Executive summary
- Retest of fixed findings
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Core API Assessment
$12K
Manual and automated security testing of 1 API with up to 25 endpoints and up to 2 user roles, against common API vulnerability classes (broken authorisation and authentication, injection, data exposure). Report plus 1 retest of fixed findings.
- apis
- 1
- 1 API, up to 25 endpoints
- Up to 2 user roles
- Common API vulnerability classes
- Findings report with fix guidance
- 1 retest round
- — Third-party and internal integration testing
- — Detailed authentication and token flow review
- — Business logic abuse testing
- — Custom exploit development
Advanced API Assessment
$20K
Testing of up to 3 APIs with up to 75 endpoints in total and up to 4 user roles. Adds detailed review of authentication and token flows, business logic abuse, rate limiting, and testing of integration points such as webhooks and third-party connections.
- apis
- 3
- Up to 3 APIs, 75 endpoints total
- Up to 4 user roles
- Authentication and token flow review
- Business logic and rate-limit testing
- Integration point testing
- 1 retest round
- — Custom exploit development and chained attacks
- — API gateway and design architecture review
- — More than 1 retest round
Enterprise API Assessment
$35K
Testing of up to 10 APIs with up to 250 endpoints in total, all roles and all integrations. Adds custom exploit development, chained attack paths across services, API gateway configuration review and 2 retest rounds.
- apis
- 10
- Up to 10 APIs, 250 endpoints total
- All user roles and integrations
- Custom exploit development
- Chained attack paths across services
- API gateway configuration review
- 2 retest rounds
- — Web or mobile front-end testing
- — Source code review
- — Denial-of-service load testing
- — Continuous API monitoring
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What's inside this engagement
Phase by phase.
How a application, api & code testing engagement runs, what happens in each phase and what you see. Exact scope, tier and timeline are fixed in your proposal and SOW.
01Scoping & threat model
Roles, key workflows, integrations and the data that matters are mapped before testing.
You see · Architecture overview and test accounts.
02Authenticated testing
Manual testing against OWASP WSTG / ASVS / MASVS / API Top 10: authorization, business logic, injection, session handling.
You see · A heads-up on any confirmed critical.
03Business-logic abuse
The flaws scanners can't find: broken object-level authorization, workflow bypasses, pricing and entitlement abuse.
You see · Findings in your application's own terms.
04Reporting
Each finding with severity, request/response evidence, reproduction steps and a code-level fix.
You see · A report developers can act on.
05Retest
Fixes verified and the report reissued, where the tier includes it.
You see · An attestation you can share with customers.
Commercials
From first call to final report.
- 01
Scoping call
A practitioner, not a salesperson, walks through targets, constraints and what a good outcome looks like for you.
- 02
Proposal & rules of engagement
A fixed-scope proposal with tier, price and deliverables. Rules of engagement, contacts and out-of-bounds systems are agreed in writing.
- 03
Sign, then start
MSA and SOW are signed electronically and the deposit is paid. Only then does testing begin.
- 04
Execution
Testing runs to the agreed plan. Critical findings are escalated as they are found; you don't wait for the report.
- 05
Report & debrief
An executive summary plus technical findings with evidence, reproduction steps and fixes, walked through with your team.
- 06
Retest
Where the tier includes it, we verify your fixes and reissue the report, so auditors and customers see the issues closed.
Timelines are set per engagement in the SOW.
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