Alternatives to Burp Suite at Enterprise organizations

middleBrick is a self-service API security scanner designed for teams that need continuous visibility without requiring code access or SDK integration. You submit a target URL and receive a risk score from A to F along with prioritized findings. The scanner operates in black-box mode using read-only methods (GET and HEAD) and text-only POST for LLM probes, completing a scan in under a minute. It does not fix, patch, block, or remediate; it detects and reports findings with remediation guidance.

middleBrick maps findings to three frameworks: PCI-DSS 4.0, SOC 2 Type II, and OWASP API Top 10 (2023). Detection spans 12 categories including 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-limiting characteristics, data exposure including PII and API key patterns, encryption misconfigurations, SSRF indicators, and inventory management gaps. The scanner also covers unsafe consumption surface and LLM / AI Security through 18 adversarial probes across Quick, Standard, and Deep tiers, including system prompt extraction, instruction override, and token smuggling.

middleBrick parses OpenAPI 3.0, 3.1, and Swagger 2.0 with recursive $ref resolution, cross-referencing spec definitions against runtime observations to identify undefined security schemes, sensitive fields, deprecated operations, and missing pagination. For authenticated scans, supported methods include Bearer, API key, Basic auth, and Cookie. Domain verification is enforced through DNS TXT records or an HTTP well-known file, ensuring only the domain owner can scan with credentials. A strict header allowlist limits forwarded headers to Authorization, X-API-Key, Cookie, and X-Custom-*.

The Web Dashboard provides a centralized view for scans, report downloads, score trend tracking, and branded compliance PDFs. The CLI via the middlebrick 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 scans from AI coding assistants like Claude and Cursor, and an API client supports custom integrations for programmatic access.

Pro tier adds scheduled rescans at intervals of six hours, daily, weekly, or monthly, with diff detection to surface new findings, resolved findings, and score drift. Email alerts are rate-limited to one per hour per API, and HMAC-SHA256 signed webhooks disable automatically after five consecutive failures. Customer scan data is deletable on demand and purged within 30 days of cancellation; data is never sold and is not used for model training.

middleBrick does not perform active SQL injection or command injection testing, as those require 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. The tool helps you prepare for compliance with PCI-DSS 4.0, SOC 2 Type II, and OWASP API Top 10 (2023), and supports audit evidence for other frameworks through alignment with described security controls.