Alternatives to Apigee in Fintech

What middleBrick covers

Black-box scanning without agents or code access
Risk scoring with prioritized findings in under a minute
OWASP API Top 10, SOC 2, and PCI-DSS aligned detection
OpenAPI 3.x and Swagger 2.0 parsing with $ref resolution
Authenticated scans with strict header allowlist
Continuous monitoring with diff detection and webhook alerts

Black-box API security assessment

This scanner performs a black-box assessment. It requires no agents, SDKs, or access to source code. It works with any language, framework, or cloud stack. You submit a target URL and receive a risk score with prioritized findings within under a minute. The scan uses read-only methods (GET and HEAD) and text-only POST for LLM probes, avoiding intrusive or destructive testing.

Detection aligned to industry standards

The scanner detects issues mapped to OWASP API Top 10 (2023), and findings align with requirements in SOC 2 Type II and PCI-DSS 4.0. Coverage includes authentication bypass, JWT misconfigurations such as alg=none and expired tokens, BOLA and IDOR via sequential ID enumeration, BFLA and privilege escalation attempts, property over-exposure, input validation issues like CORS wildcard usage, rate-limit header detection, data exposure including PII and API key patterns, SSRF probes, and inventory management gaps. LLM security is addressed through 18 adversarial probes across Quick, Standard, and Deep tiers, including system prompt extraction and prompt injection tests.

OpenAPI and authenticated scanning

The tool parses OpenAPI 3.0, 3.1, and Swagger 2.0 with recursive $ref resolution, cross-referencing spec definitions against runtime behavior to find undefined security schemes or deprecated operations. Authenticated scanning supports Bearer, API key, Basic auth, and cookies. Domain verification is enforced through DNS TXT records or an HTTP well-known file so only the domain owner can run authenticated scans. A strict header allowlist limits forwarded headers to Authorization, X-API-Key, Cookie, and X-Custom-*.

Continuous monitoring and integrations

Pro tier enables scheduled rescans every 6 hours, daily, weekly, or monthly. Diff detection highlights new findings, resolved findings, and score drift between scans. Alerts are delivered via email at a rate-limited pace of 1 per hour per API, and HMAC-SHA256 signed webhooks auto-disable after 5 consecutive failures. Integrations include a web dashboard for reports and trends, a CLI with JSON or text output, a GitHub Action that fails builds below a score threshold, an MCP server for AI coding assistants, and a programmatic API for custom workflows.

Data handling, safety, and limitations

Scan traffic is read-only, and destructive payloads are never sent. Private IPs, localhost, and cloud metadata endpoints are blocked at multiple layers. Customer data can be deleted on demand and is purged within 30 days of cancellation. It is not used for model training. The scanner does not fix or patch issues, does not perform active SQL or command injection tests, does not detect business logic vulnerabilities, does not detect blind SSRF, and does not replace a human pentester for high-stakes audits. It reports findings with remediation guidance.

Frequently Asked Questions

How does the scanner validate API ownership during authenticated scans?

A domain verification gate requires a DNS TXT record or an HTTP well-known file that only the domain owner can control, preventing unauthorized scans of protected APIs.

Which regulations does the scanner help you prepare evidence for?

It supports audit evidence for SOC 2 Type II and PCI-DSS 4.0, and helps prepare for security controls described in frameworks such as OWASP API Top 10 (2023).

Can the tool detect business logic or blind SSRF vulnerabilities?

No. It focuses on implementation and configuration issues such as injection surfaces, data exposure, and SSRF probes that do not rely on out-of-band infrastructure or domain-specific logic.

What is the scope of the LLM security probes?

It runs 18 adversarial probes across Quick, Standard, and Deep scan tiers to test system prompt extraction, instruction override, jailbreak patterns, data exfiltration attempts, and token manipulation techniques.