Alternatives to APIsec in Gaming

middleBrick is a self-service API security scanner designed for gaming backends that use diverse languages and frameworks. Submit a public URL and receive a risk score from A to F with prioritized findings. The scan is fully black-box: no agents, no SDKs, and no code access are required. It supports any stack, including game servers, match-making services, and leaderboard APIs. Scan completion typically occurs in under a minute, using read-only methods (GET and HEAD) plus text-only POST for LLM probes.

The scanner checks 12 categories aligned to the OWASP API Top 10 (2023), relevant to common gaming attack surfaces such as authentication bypass, account takeovers, and data exposure. Findings map directly to three frameworks: PCI-DSS 4.0, SOC 2 Type II, and OWASP API Top 10 (2023). For other controls, the tool helps you prepare for and supports audit evidence related to security practices. It detects authentication misconfigurations, broken object level authorization patterns common in player data endpoints, and data exposures such as PII and API keys that often appear in leaderboards or player profiles.

• Authentication — multi-method bypass, JWT misconfigurations, security headers.
• BOLA / IDOR — sequential ID enumeration and active adjacent-ID probing on player or item IDs.
• BFLA / Privilege Escalation — admin endpoint probing and role/permission field leakage.
• Property Authorization — over-exposure of internal fields and mass-assignment surfaces.
• Input Validation — CORS wildcard usage, dangerous HTTP methods, debug endpoints.
• Rate Limiting & Resource Consumption — rate-limit header detection and oversized responses.
• Data Exposure — PII patterns, API key formats, error/stack-trace leakage.
• Encryption — HTTPS redirect, HSTS, cookie flags, mixed content.
• SSRF — URL-accepting parameters and body fields, including backend service calls.
• Inventory Management — missing versioning and legacy path patterns.
• Unsafe Consumption — excessive third-party URLs and webhook/callback surface.
• LLM / AI Security — adversarial probes across Quick, Standard, and Deep tiers, including system prompt extraction and data exfiltration tests.

middleBrick parses OpenAPI 3.0, 3.1, and Swagger 2.0 documents with recursive $ref resolution, then cross-references spec definitions against runtime findings. This helps identify undefined security schemes, sensitive fields, deprecated operations, and missing pagination in gaming APIs. Authenticated scanning is available from the Starter tier and above, supporting Bearer tokens, API keys, Basic auth, and cookies. Domain verification is enforced via DNS TXT record or HTTP well-known file, ensuring only the domain owner can scan with credentials. The scanner forwards a strict header allowlist including Authorization, X-API-Key, Cookie, and X-Custom-* headers.

middlebrick scan https://api.yourgamingservice.com --auth-type bearer --auth-token YOUR_TOKEN

The Web Dashboard centralizes scan results, score trends, and branded compliance PDFs for reporting. The CLI, published as an npm package, enables local scans with JSON or text output. A GitHub Action can gate CI/CD, failing builds when the score drops below a chosen threshold. The MCP Server allows scanning from AI coding assistants such as Claude and Cursor. For ongoing risk management, the Pro tier provides scheduled rescans every 6 hours, daily, weekly, or monthly. Diff detection highlights new findings, resolved findings, and score drift, while email alerts are rate-limited to 1 per hour per API. HMAC-SHA256 signed webhooks are supported, with auto-disable after 5 consecutive failures.

middleBrick operates read-only and never sends destructive payloads. Private IPs, localhost, and cloud metadata endpoints are blocked at multiple layers. Customer scan data is deletable on demand and purged within 30 days of cancellation; it is never sold or used for model training. The tool does not fix, patch, block, or remediate issues. It does not perform active SQL injection or command injection testing, which requires intrusive payloads outside its scope. It does not detect business logic vulnerabilities, blind SSRF relying on out-of-band infrastructure, or replace a human pentester for high-stakes audits. Its role is to detect and report with remediation guidance.