APIsec for Government

What middleBrick covers

Black-box scanning with no agents, SDKs, or code access
Risk scoring aligned to OWASP API Top 10 (2023)
OpenAPI 3.0/3.1 and Swagger 2.0 parsing with ref resolution
Authentication support for Bearer, API key, Basic, and Cookie
Continuous monitoring with diff detection and HMAC-SHA256 webhooks
Private IP and localhost blocking at multiple layers

Risk Assessment Approach for Government Environments

Government workloads demand repeatable, auditable risk assessment rather than point-in-time compliance claims. The scanner operates as a black-box mechanism, submitting only read-only requests to surface security characteristics without modifying backend state. Each scan produces a risk score graded A through F and a prioritized list of findings aligned to OWASP API Top 10 (2023), enabling teams to track posture over time.

Mapping to Government and Industry Frameworks

Findings map directly to PCI-DSS 4.0, SOC 2 Type II, and OWASP API Top 10 (2023), providing structured evidence that supports audit activities. The tool also aligns with security controls described in HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001, NIST, and related regulatory frameworks, enabling you to surface findings relevant to those standards without asserting certification or compliance.

Authentication and Authorization Testing

The scanner evaluates authentication mechanisms including Bearer tokens, API keys, Basic auth, and cookies, checking for JWT misconfigurations such as alg=none, weak algorithms, expired tokens, and missing claims. It probes authorization boundaries by testing for BOLA/IDOR through sequential ID enumeration and active adjacent-ID probing, and BFLA/privilege escalation via admin endpoint probing and role/permission field leakage.

Input Validation, Data Exposure, and Infrastructure Safety

Validation checks include CORS wildcard usage with and without credentials, dangerous HTTP methods, debug endpoints, and oversized or paginated responses that may indicate missing rate limits. Data exposure detection identifies PII patterns such as email addresses, context-aware SSNs, Luhn-validated card numbers, and API key formats for AWS, Stripe, GitHub, and Slack. Safety measures block private IPs, localhost, and cloud metadata endpoints at multiple layers, and the scanner only uses read-only methods.

OpenAPI Analysis and Continuous Monitoring

The scanner parses OpenAPI 3.0, 3.1, and Swagger 2.0 documents with recursive $ref resolution, cross-referencing spec definitions against runtime behavior to highlight undefined security schemes, sensitive fields, deprecated operations, and missing pagination. For ongoing oversight, Pro tier offers scheduled rescans every six hours, daily, weekly, or monthly, with diff detection for new and resolved findings, email alerts rate-limited to one per hour per API, and HMAC-SHA256 signed webhooks that auto-disable after five consecutive failures.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does this tool perform active SQL injection or command injection testing?

No. The scanner does not execute intrusive payloads such as SQL injection or command injection, as those tests fall outside its read-only scope.

Can the scanner detect business logic vulnerabilities?

No. Business logic vulnerabilities require domain-specific human analysis and are not detectable through automated black-box scanning.

Is customer scan data used to train models or shared with third parties?

No. Scan data is never sold and is not used for model training. Data is deletable on demand and purged within 30 days of cancellation.

What is required to authenticate a scan against an API?

Domain verification via DNS TXT record or HTTP well-known file is required. Only the domain owner can scan with credentials, and only specific headers such as Authorization, X-API-Key, Cookie, and X-Custom-* are forwarded.