Alternatives to Apigee in E-Commerce

E-Commerce APIs expose payment flows, inventory, and customer data. Common issues include broken object-level authorization, excessive data exposure, and injection vectors around checkout and account management. These surfaces demand precise detection rather than assumed safeguards.

middleBrick maps findings to PCI-DSS 4.0, SOC 2 Type II, and OWASP API Top 10 (2023). Detection covers authentication bypass, IDOR, PII leakage, and sensitive key exposure in public endpoints. The scanner also validates controls relevant to audit evidence for these frameworks without claiming certification.

• Authentication — JWT misconfigurations, security headers, and WWW-Authenticate compliance.
• BOLA / IDOR — Sequential ID patterns and adjacent ID probing on account and order endpoints.
• Data Exposure — PII patterns including email, Luhn-validated card numbers, and context-aware SSN.
• Input Validation — CORS wildcard with credentials, dangerous HTTP methods, debug endpoints.
• LLM Security — Adversarial probes for prompt extraction, data exfiltration, and token smuggling across tiered scan modes.

The scanner parses OpenAPI 3.0, 3.1, and Swagger 2.0 with recursive $ref resolution. It cross-references spec definitions against runtime behavior to highlight undefined security schemes, sensitive fields, deprecated operations, and missing pagination. This helps teams align documented contracts with actual traffic.

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Shop API
  version: 1.0.0
paths:
  /cart:
    get:
      summary: Retrieve cart
      security:
        - bearerAuth: []
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK

Authenticated scans support Bearer, API key, Basic auth, and Cookie methods. Domain verification requires a DNS TXT record or HTTP well-known file so only the domain owner can submit credentials. The scanner forwards a strict header allowlist: Authorization, X-API-Key, Cookie, and X-Custom-*.

Scan operations are read-only; destructive payloads are never sent. Private IPs, localhost, and cloud metadata endpoints are blocked at multiple layers. Findings include rate-limit headers, oversized responses, and error/stack-trace leakage.

The Web Dashboard centralizes scans, score trends, and branded compliance PDFs. The CLI supports single commands with JSON or text output. The GitHub Action enforces CI/CD gates by failing builds when scores drop below a set threshold. The MCP Server enables scans from AI coding assistants.

Pro tier provides scheduled rescans (6 hours to monthly), diff detection for new and resolved findings, score drift tracking, email alerts at a rate-limited 1 per hour per API, and HMAC-SHA256 signed webhooks with auto-disable after 5 consecutive failures.