Alternatives to Akto in E-Commerce

middleBrick is a self-service API security scanner designed for e-commerce environments. Submit an API endpoint URL and receive a risk score from A to F with prioritized findings. The scanner operates as a black-box solution, requiring no agents, SDKs, or code access, and supports any language, framework, or cloud. Read-only methods such as GET and HEAD are used, with text-only POST allowed for LLM probes, and typical scans complete in under one minute.

The scanner evaluates 12 security categories aligned to the OWASP API Top 10 (2023), which maps findings to this framework and covers requirements of PCI-DSS 4.0 and SOC 2 Type II. Detection capabilities include authentication bypass and JWT misconfigurations, broken object level authorization and IDOR, broken function level authorization and privilege escalation, property authorization and over-exposure of internal fields, input validation issues like CORS wildcard usage and dangerous HTTP methods, rate limiting and resource consumption indicators, data exposure including PII patterns and API key formats, encryption and transport security issues, SSRF indicators, inventory management problems, unsafe consumption surface, and LLM/AI security probes across tiered scan depths.

For OpenAPI specifications, the tool parses OpenAPI 3.0, 3.1, and Swagger 2.0 with recursive $ref resolution and cross-references spec definitions against runtime findings to identify undefined security schemes, sensitive fields, deprecated operations, and missing pagination. This helps you prepare for audits by surfacing findings relevant to documented API contracts.

Authenticated scanning is available from the Starter tier onward, supporting Bearer, API key, Basic auth, and Cookie credentials. Domain verification is enforced via DNS TXT record or an HTTP well-known file to ensure only the domain owner can scan with credentials. The scanner includes a strict header allowlist, forwarding only Authorization, X-API-Key, Cookie, and X-Custom-* headers. All operations are read-only, with destructive payloads never sent. Private IPs, localhost, and cloud metadata endpoints are blocked at multiple layers, and customer data is deletable on demand, purged within 30 days of cancellation, never sold, and never used for model training.

The Web Dashboard provides scan management, report viewing, score trend tracking, and downloadable branded compliance PDFs. The CLI, distributed as an npm package, supports commands such as middlebrick scan <url> with JSON or text output. A GitHub Action enables CI/CD gating, failing the build when the score drops below a defined threshold. The MCP Server allows scanning from AI coding assistants like Claude and Cursor, and a programmatic API client supports custom integrations. Continuous monitoring in the Pro tier offers scheduled rescans, diff detection across scans, email alerts at rate-limited intervals, HMAC-SHA256 signed webhooks, and auto-disable after consecutive failures.

middleBrick does not fix, patch, block, or remediate findings; it detects and reports with remediation guidance. It does not perform active SQL injection or command injection testing, as those require intrusive payloads outside the scope. Business logic vulnerabilities are not detected, as they demand domain-specific human analysis, and blind SSRF is out of scope due to the absence of out-of-band infrastructure. The tool does not replace a human pentester for high-stakes audits. These limitations support audit evidence for your internal risk assessments and help you align with security controls described in relevant frameworks without overstating capability.