Akto for Gaming

middleBrick is a self-service API security scanner designed for environments where uptime and release velocity are critical. Submit a public URL and receive a risk score from A to F with prioritized findings within one minute. The scanner uses only read-only methods such as GET and HEAD, plus text-only POST for LLM probes, which makes it suitable for gaming APIs that must remain non-destructive during assessment. It operates without agents, SDKs, or code access, so it works across any language, framework, or cloud environment typical in gaming.

The scanner evaluates 12 security categories aligned to the OWASP API Top 10 (2023), covering issues common in gaming backends and player data pipelines. Detection capabilities include authentication bypass and JWT misconfigurations, Broken Object Level Authorization and IDOR, BFLA and privilege escalation paths, over-exposed properties and mass assignment surfaces, input validation anomalies such as CORS wildcard usage and dangerous HTTP methods, rate limiting and resource consumption indicators, and sensitive data exposure including PII patterns and API key formats. Additional coverage includes HTTPS and HSTS enforcement, SSRF indicators in URL-accepting parameters, and inventory management issues such as missing versioning. The scanner also probes unsafe consumption surfaces and includes an LLM security track with 18 adversarial probes across Quick, Standard, and Deep tiers, testing for system prompt extraction, jailbreak techniques, data exfiltration attempts, and token smuggling.

middleBrick parses OpenAPI 3.0, 3.1, and Swagger 2.0 files with recursive $ref resolution, then cross-references the spec against runtime behavior to identify undefined security schemes, sensitive fields, deprecated operations, and missing pagination. For authenticated scans, which require the Starter tier or higher, supported methods include Bearer tokens, API keys, Basic auth, and cookies. Domain verification is enforced through DNS TXT records or an HTTP well-known file to ensure only the domain owner can submit credentials. A strict header allowlist permits only Authorization, X-API-Key, Cookie, and X-Custom-* headers, reducing noise and limiting exposure of internal infrastructure during testing.

Pro tier subscriptions enable scheduled rescans at intervals of six hours, daily, weekly, or monthly, with diff detection that highlights new findings, resolved issues, and score drift over time. Alerts are delivered via email at a rate-limited cadence of one per hour per API, and HMAC-SHA256 signed webhooks can notify internal systems with auto-disable after five consecutive failures. The platform integrates into existing workflows through a web dashboard for report review and trend analysis, a CLI via an npm package for on-demand scans, a GitHub Action that can fail CI/CD pipelines when scores drop below a set threshold, and an MCP server for use with AI coding assistants. An API client is also available for custom integrations, allowing security data to feed broader governance tools.

middleBrick is a scanning tool and does not fix, patch, block, or remediate findings; it provides detection and contextual guidance. It does not perform active SQL injection or command injection testing, does not detect business logic vulnerabilities that require domain-specific understanding, and does not identify blind SSRF or conduct out-of-band validation. The platform maps findings to PCI-DSS 4.0, SOC 2 Type II, and OWASP API Top 10 (2023), and it helps you prepare for audits by aligning with security controls described in other frameworks without asserting certification or compliance guarantees. It does not replace a human penetration test for high-stakes assessments.