Discover shadow APIs, reconstruct specs, scan for runtime risks
Invicti extends DAST into API security with discovery, stateful scanning, and proof-based validation so you can uncover shadow APIs, test for vulnerabilities, and protect every endpoint in context.
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The problem with homegrown API security
API discovery and continuous testing are crucial for protecting your applications and bottom line, but legacy approaches have left security teams overloaded and disconnected. In fact, up to 84% of security professionals experience an API security incident each year.
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Blind spots in API inventory
Most teams don’t know how many APIs they have, let alone which ones are undocumented, exposed, or vulnerable.
Shallow or noisy testing
Basic scans or source-only reviews can’t validate complex issues like BOLA or BFLA. Teams end up drowning in false positives while missing the most dangerous vulnerabilities.
Disconnected remediation
Even though APIs are part of the app, API security findings often live in a silo. Security teams lack a unified view, while developers get incomplete guidance. This slows remediation and leaves APIs exposed during fixes.
Complete API discovery and inventory
Accurate, proof-based API scanning
Unified remediation and protection
Integrate with your existing tools
What customers say
“For more websites, we now don’t need to go externally for security testing. We can fire up Invicti, run the tests as often as we like, view the scan results, and mitigate to our hearts’ content. As a result, the budget we were spending every year on penetration testing decreased by approximately 60% almost immediately and went down even more the following year, to about 20% of our initial spending.”
“The software is an important part of my security strategy which is in progress toward other services at OECD. And I find it better than external expertise. I had, of course, the opportunity to compare expertise reports with Invicti ones. Invicti was better, finding more breaches.”
“We scan all our websites for vulnerabilities as they are being developed. These scans are also used to satisfy a yearly scanning requirement from our governing organization. We have identified and corrected over 100 vulnerabilities with Invicti.”
“As opposed to other web application scanners we used, Invicti is very easy to use and does not require a lot of configuring. An out of the box installation of Invicti web application security Scanner can detect more vulnerabilities than any other web application security scanner we have used so far.”
Frequently asked API questions
Invicti discovers APIs through multiple methods:
- Zero-config techniques (passive traffic analysis and URL pattern detection)
- Sensorless detection based on API traffic generated during web app scans.
- Gateway integration (Apigee, Azure, Kong)
- File-based imports (Swagger/OpenAPI, Postman, WSDLs, GraphQL schemas).
Yes. Invicti supports all common authentication methods, including basic authentication and OAuth2, ensuring full coverage of API endpoints during scans.
Invicti also applies its proof-based scanning to APIs where technically possible, proving vulnerabilities by extracting data or showing a working exploit. This ensures verified, actionable results instead of guesses.
Yes. Invicti delivers actionable vulnerability reports complete with remediation guidance for APIs as part of its integrated workflow.
Yes. Invicti analyzes network API traffic in container deployments such as Kubernetes clusters to reconstruct API definitions based on observed traffic.
Yes. Invicti explicitly provides API discovery as part of its platform and its layered discovery approach helps fill gaps in known inventories.
When setting up API scanning on the Invicti Platform, you can define more than one user account to be used in auth-related testing, ideally a higher and a lower privilege account. By comparing access attempts using both accounts, Invicti can detect horizontal and vertical broken access issues.
Yes. API testing explicitly maps results to much of the OWASP API Top 10, including IDOR/BOLA, BFLA, and injection flaws.
Invicti supports scanning across REST, SOAP, and GraphQL APIs, dynamically adjusting to their structure.
Discover shadow APIs, validate real risks, and secure every endpoint.
