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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.

Find shadow API endpoints

Complete API discovery and inventory

Sensorless API discovery: No agent or sensors to deploy. Automatically discover and extract downstream API specs during web app scans.

Zero-config API discovery: Crawl target domains for Swagger/OpenAPI specs.

API gateway integration: Connect directly to Amazon API Gateway, Mulesoft, Azure API Management, Apigee X, and more.

Traditional API discovery: Deploy NTA into production infra (F5, Nginx, Cloudflare, Kong, K8S) for the most complete coverage.

Empower developers

Accurate, proof-based API scanning

Frictionless API scanning: Absorb provided, discovered, or reconstructed API specs.

Scan for weak access controls: Test auth with support for tokens, cookies, OAuth2. Catch BOLA, BFLA, and unauthenticated API access. Prevent sensitive data leakage and privilege escalation.

Stateful API scanning: Infer parameter relationships to uncover business logic flaws.

OWASP API Top 10 coverage: Detect complex flaws like BOLA, BFLA, and misconfigurations while maintaining zero noise.

AI remediation guidance: Deliver suggested fixes developers can apply quickly.

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Unify and automate

Unified remediation and protection

WAF/WAAP automation: Push virtual patches for confirmed high-risk vulnerabilities.

Developer guidance: Get AI-aided remediation advice + internal knowledge base.

Noise suppression & deduplication: Filter out repetitive alerts across tools.

Single-pane ASPM visibility: Correlate API issues with other AST results.

Consolidated AppSec: APIs, web apps, and LLMs tested together for a unified risk view.

110+ INTEGRATIONS

Integrate with your existing tools

Zapier

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FortiWeb

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Cloudflare

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Slack

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AWS

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GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions lets you automate tasks within your software development life cycle.

Asana

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Travis CI

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Azure Pipelines

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Trello

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TeamCity

TeamCity is a build management and CI server that helps run automated tests before production.

Azure Key Vault

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Webhooks

Webhooks provide a way to integrate an issue tracking system that does not have its own integration.

Invicti API

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ServiceNow Application Vulnerability Response

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ServiceNow Vulnerability Response

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HashiCorp Vault

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CyberArk Vault

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Okta

Okta is an identity and access management platform that helps you manage and secure user authentication.

Azure Active Directory

Azure AD is a universal platform designed to protect and manage access to identities.

PingFederate

PingFederate is an enterprise federation server that enables user authentication and single sign-on.

Microsoft ADFS

ADFS provides users with single sign-on access by sharing digital identity and entitlement rights.

SAML

SAML is a security language for exchanging authentication and authorization data between providers.

PingIdentity

PingIdentity is a platform that provides federated identity management and intelligent app access.

ModSecurity

ModSecurity (ModSec) is an open-source WAF that is based on the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set.

Okta

Okta is an access management platform that secures critical resources by identity controls.

Google

Google Single sign-on provides one-click access to pre-integrated apps in the cloud and on-premises.

Azure Active Directory

Azure AD is a platform that manages identities with secure SSO and multi-factor authentication.

Imperva SecureSphere

Imperva SecureSphere is cyber security WAF software that protects websites from attacks using custom policies.

F5 BIG-IP

BIG-IP ASM is a WAF that protects your applications from network attacks including OWASP Top 10.

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a communication platform that integrates with Office 365 and other products.

Mattermost

Mattermost is an open-source, flexible, messaging platform that enables secure team collaboration.

GitLab CI/CD

GitLab is a web-based repository manager that helps configure source control repositories.

UrbanCode

UrbanCode Deploy automates application developments through your environments.

Jenkins

Jenkins is an automation server that supplies plugins that build automation into projects.

Circle CI

CircleCI is a continuous integration and delivery system used to build multi-platform applications.

Bamboo

Bamboo is an automation server that enables software developers to build automation into projects.

TFS

TFS (Team Foundation Server) is a Microsoft product that covers the entire application lifecycle.

YouTrack

YouTrack is a customizable project management tool that helps you plan and track software workflows.

Shortcut

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Splunk

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PagerDuty

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Unfuddle

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Redmine

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Pivotal Tracker

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ServiceNow Incident Management

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GitHub

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Kenna

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Kafka

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JIRA

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Jazz Team Server

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DefectDojo

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GitLab

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Freshservice

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Azure Boards

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FogBugz

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Bugzilla

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Bitbucket

Bitbucket is a web-based code management hosting service that provides collaboration for teams.

Azure API Management

Azure API Management allows organizations to publish APIs hosted on Azure, on-premises, and in other clouds more securely, reliably, and at scale.

Mend.io

Mend SAST empowers developers to find and fix security vulnerabilities in proprietary code with 10x faster scans, seamless workflow integration, contextual education, and actionable feedback.

Amazon API Gateway

Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that allows developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale.

Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management. Invicti Network Traffic Analyzer integrates with Kubernetes natively and via Istio Service Mesh.

Apigee API hub

Apigee API hub lets you consolidate and organize information about all of the APIs of interest to your organization.

MuleSoft Anypoint Exchange

MuleSoft Anypoint Exchange is a marketplace of reusable, pre-built templates, connectors, accelerators, and APIs from the MuleSoft ecosystem.

Zapier

Zapier is a web-based service that allows users to integrate web apps and automate workflows.

FortiWeb

Fortiweb is a WAF that protects public cloud hosted web applications from threats and attacks.

Cloudflare

Cloudflare is a WAF that examines HTTP requests to websites and applies rules to protect web apps.

Slack

Slack is a team messaging system that enables enterprise teams to communicate via channels.

AWS

Amazon Web Services is a WAF that enables users to monitor, allow and block HTTP and HTTPS requests.

GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions lets you automate tasks within your software development life cycle.

Asana

Asana is a work management platform designed to help teams organize, track and manage work.

Travis CI

Travis CI is a hosted continuous integration service and used to test and deploy software projects hosted on GitHub.

Azure Pipelines

Azure DevOps is a web-based DevOps manager that provides Azure Pipelines CI/CD pipeline features.

Trello

Trello is a web-based, list-making application for collaboration and project organization.

TeamCity

TeamCity is a build management and CI server that helps run automated tests before production.

Azure Key Vault

Azure Key Vault is a service to store and access secrets. It encrypts keys and small secrets like passwords.

Webhooks

Webhooks provide a way to integrate an issue tracking system that does not have its own integration.

Invicti API

Invicti Team and Enterprise has a full-featured REST API which allows for easy integration.

ServiceNow Application Vulnerability Response

ServiceNow Application Vulnerability Response helps you with tracking, prioritizing, and resolving vulnerabilities.

ServiceNow Vulnerability Response

ServiceNow Vulnerability Response helps you in tracking, prioritizing, and resolving vulnerabilities.

HashiCorp Vault

HashiCorp Vault is a secret management system that provides access to secrets, such as password and API keys, in a secure way.

CyberArk Vault

CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault is a privileged access management system that helps you centrally manage privileged account identities in a single location.

Okta

Okta is an identity and access management platform that helps you manage and secure user authentication.

Azure Active Directory

Azure AD is a universal platform designed to protect and manage access to identities.

PingFederate

PingFederate is an enterprise federation server that enables user authentication and single sign-on.

Microsoft ADFS

ADFS provides users with single sign-on access by sharing digital identity and entitlement rights.

SAML

SAML is a security language for exchanging authentication and authorization data between providers.

PingIdentity

PingIdentity is a platform that provides federated identity management and intelligent app access.

ModSecurity

ModSecurity (ModSec) is an open-source WAF that is based on the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set.

Okta

Okta is an access management platform that secures critical resources by identity controls.

Google

Google Single sign-on provides one-click access to pre-integrated apps in the cloud and on-premises.

Azure Active Directory

Azure AD is a platform that manages identities with secure SSO and multi-factor authentication.

Imperva SecureSphere

Imperva SecureSphere is cyber security WAF software that protects websites from attacks using custom policies.

F5 BIG-IP

BIG-IP ASM is a WAF that protects your applications from network attacks including OWASP Top 10.

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a communication platform that integrates with Office 365 and other products.

Mattermost

Mattermost is an open-source, flexible, messaging platform that enables secure team collaboration.

GitLab CI/CD

GitLab is a web-based repository manager that helps configure source control repositories.

UrbanCode

UrbanCode Deploy automates application developments through your environments.

Jenkins

Jenkins is an automation server that supplies plugins that build automation into projects.

Circle CI

CircleCI is a continuous integration and delivery system used to build multi-platform applications.

Bamboo

Bamboo is an automation server that enables software developers to build automation into projects.

TFS

TFS (Team Foundation Server) is a Microsoft product that covers the entire application lifecycle.

YouTrack

YouTrack is a customizable project management tool that helps you plan and track software workflows.

Shortcut

Shortcut is a project management platform specifically designed for software development.

Splunk

Splunk is a Security Information and Event Management software that reads and stores data.

PagerDuty

PagerDuty is a digital operations management platform that alerts clients to disruption and outages.

Unfuddle

Unfuddle is full-stack software project management software with built in issue tracking tools.

Redmine

Redmine is an issue tracking system that is part of a flexible project management web application.

Pivotal Tracker

Pivotal Tracker is an issue tracking tool to help software development teams in managing projects.

ServiceNow Incident Management

ServiceNow is an issue tracking system that helps organisations to manage issues across departments.

GitHub

GitHub is a web-based hosting service for code version control with an extra issue tracking feature.

Kenna

Kenna is a real-time issue tracking system that specializes in risk-based vulnerability management.

Kafka

Kafka provides a unified, high-throughput, low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds.

JIRA

Jira is an issue tracking software app with agile project management and bug tracking features.

Jazz Team Server

Jazz Team Server is an issue-tracking system to maintain transparency for the development team.

DefectDojo

DefectDojo is a vulnerability management tool that streamlines the application security testing process.

GitLab

GitLab is an advanced issue tracking tool for planning work and solving problems collaboratively.

Freshservice

Freshservice is an intuitive cloud-based IT help-desk incident and service management system.

Azure Boards

Azure Boards helps teams manage their projects quickly and easily.

FogBugz

FogBugz is a web-based project management system with built in bug and issue tracking features.

Bugzilla

Bugzilla is an open-source, web-based bug tracking and testing tool for managing software defects.

Bitbucket

Bitbucket is a web-based code management hosting service that provides collaboration for teams.

Azure API Management

Azure API Management allows organizations to publish APIs hosted on Azure, on-premises, and in other clouds more securely, reliably, and at scale.

Mend.io

Mend SAST empowers developers to find and fix security vulnerabilities in proprietary code with 10x faster scans, seamless workflow integration, contextual education, and actionable feedback.

Amazon API Gateway

Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that allows developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale.

Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management. Invicti Network Traffic Analyzer integrates with Kubernetes natively and via Istio Service Mesh.

Apigee API hub

Apigee API hub lets you consolidate and organize information about all of the APIs of interest to your organization.

MuleSoft Anypoint Exchange

MuleSoft Anypoint Exchange is a marketplace of reusable, pre-built templates, connectors, accelerators, and APIs from the MuleSoft ecosystem.

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.”

- Brian Brackenborough, CISO

“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.”

- Andy Gambles, Senior Analyst

“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.”

- David Pope, Department of Education

“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.”

- Perry Mertens, Audit Supervisor

Frequently asked API questions

How does Invicti discover APIs?

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).
Does Invicti support authenticated API scanning?

Yes. Invicti supports all common authentication methods, including basic authentication and OAuth2, ensuring full coverage of API endpoints during scans.

How accurate is Invicti’s API scanning?

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.

Does Invicti provide remediation guidance for API flaws?

Yes. Invicti delivers actionable vulnerability reports complete with remediation guidance for APIs as part of its integrated workflow.

Can Invicti cover APIs in containerized or microservice environments?

Yes. Invicti analyzes network API traffic in container deployments such as Kubernetes clusters to reconstruct API definitions based on observed traffic.

Can Invicti find shadow APIs?

Yes. Invicti explicitly provides API discovery as part of its platform and its layered discovery approach helps fill gaps in known inventories.

How does Invicti detect complex logic flaws like BOLA or BFLA?

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.

Does Invicti support OWASP API Top 10 coverage?

Yes. API testing explicitly maps results to much of the OWASP API Top 10, including IDOR/BOLA, BFLA, and injection flaws.

How does Invicti handle different API formats?

Invicti supports scanning across REST, SOAP, and GraphQL APIs, dynamically adjusting to their structure.

Discover shadow APIs, validate real risks, and secure every endpoint.

Find, test, and safeguard APIs with confidence

AI-aided remediation advice + internal knowledge base

Automatically discover and extract downstream API specs during web app scans

Invicti DAST vs. Competitors
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See how Invicti performed against Tenable, Snyk, and StackHawk in real-world scanning scenarios.