Bright Security for Mid-market companies

Mid-market organizations face pressure to move quickly while maintaining a defensible security posture. This scanner provides a read-only assessment of public and authenticated API surfaces without requiring code access or agents. Within under a minute, you receive a risk score and prioritized findings that map to common security frameworks, helping you understand exposure without disrupting production systems.

The scanner operates as a black-box solution, validating behaviors rather than relying on source code. It supports GET and HEAD methods by default, with limited text-only POST capabilities for LLM probes. Detection coverage spans 12 categories aligned to the OWASP API Top 10 (2023), including authentication bypass, excessive data exposure, injection surfaces, and LLM-specific adversarial probes across Quick, Standard, and Deep scan tiers. OpenAPI 3.0, 3.1, and Swagger 2.0 specs are parsed with recursive $ref resolution, and findings are cross-referenced against the spec to highlight undefined security schemes or deprecated operations.

For Starter tier and above, authenticated scans are supported via Bearer tokens, API keys, Basic auth, and cookies. Domain verification requires control of a DNS TXT record or an HTTP well-known file, ensuring only domain owners can scan with credentials. The scanner forwards a restricted allowlist of headers, including Authorization, X-API-Key, Cookie, and X-Custom-*, and does not attempt to remediate or block endpoints. This approach surfaces misconfigurations such as weak JWT settings, misconfigured security headers, and IDOR indicators while preserving environment integrity.

The platform integrates into existing workflows through a web dashboard, CLI, GitHub Action, and an MCP server for AI-assisted development. The dashboard centralizes scans, tracks score trends, and enables export of branded compliance PDFs. With Pro tier, scheduled rescans run every 6 hours to monthly, and diff detection highlights new findings, resolved items, and score drift. Alerting includes rate-limited email notifications and HMAC-SHA256 signed webhooks that auto-disable after repeated failures, ensuring signals remain actionable without overwhelming teams.

This tool is a scanner and does not fix, patch, or block issues. It does not execute active SQL injection or command injection payloads, and business logic vulnerabilities require domain expertise to evaluate. Blind SSRF and certain advanced infrastructure weaknesses are out of scope because they rely on out-of-band channels. The scanner supports audit evidence collection and aligns with security controls described in frameworks such as PCI-DSS 4.0, SOC 2 Type II, and OWASP API Top 10 (2023), but it does not certify compliance or replace a human pentester for high-stakes assessments.