Alternatives to Akto at Mid-market companies

middleBrick is a self-service API security scanner that requires no agents, SDKs, or code access. Submit a target URL and receive a risk score from A to F with prioritized findings within under a minute. The scanner uses read-only methods (GET and HEAD) plus text-only POST for LLM probes, making it compatible with any language, framework, or cloud environment without introducing runtime risk.

The scanner covers 12 security categories aligned to OWASP API Top 10 (2023). It maps findings to this standard to validate related controls. Detection capabilities include authentication bypass and JWT misconfigurations, BOLA and IDOR via sequential ID enumeration, BFLA and privilege escalation probes, property over-exposure, input validation issues like CORS wildcard usage and dangerous methods, rate-limiting characteristics, data exposure patterns including PII and API key leaks, encryption misconfigurations, SSRF indicators, and inventory management gaps. An LLM security tier conducts adversarial probes for system prompt extraction and jailbreak techniques.

middleBrick parses OpenAPI 3.0, 3.1, and Swagger 2.0 definitions with recursive $ref resolution, cross-referencing spec definitions against runtime results to identify undefined security schemes or deprecated operations. For authenticated scans, supported methods include Bearer tokens, API keys, Basic auth, and cookies. Domain verification is enforced through DNS TXT records or HTTP well-known files, and header forwarding is limited to Authorization, X-API-Key, Cookie, and X-Custom-* to reduce noise.

Pro tier adds scheduled rescans at intervals of six hours, daily, weekly, or monthly, with diff detection to highlight new findings, resolved issues, and score drift. Alerts are delivered via email at a rate-limited cadence of one per hour per API, and HMAC-SHA256 signed webhooks disable automatically after five consecutive failures. The product supports integrations through a web dashboard for report management and trend tracking, a CLI via an npm package, a GitHub Action for CI/CD gating, an MCP server for AI coding assistants, and a programmable API for custom workflows.

The scanner operates read-only and never sends destructive payloads. Internal infrastructure such as cloud metadata endpoints and private IP ranges is blocked at multiple layers. Customer data can be deleted on demand and is purged within 30 days of cancellation; it is not sold or used for model training. The tool does not fix or remediate issues, does not perform active SQL or command injection testing, does not detect business logic vulnerabilities, does not detect blind SSRF, and does not replace a human pentester for high-stakes audits.