Web API Security testing with it's API Fuzzer that can do Information Gathering, analyze Security Headers, identify API specific vulnerabilities which ensures, that system and applications in an organization, are free from any loopholes that may cause a big loss
Types of API and their Uses
- REST and SOAP API use predominantly use HTTP as their protocol
- Arguments are sent as part of the URL, as HTTP Header or in the request body
- Message payload is predominantly JSON for REST and XML for SOAP
Why Hack an API ?
- Provoke error messages or response that give us system details
- Database names
- File Paths
- Component versions
- Find Security holes that give us access to system resources
- Put the API in an unavailable or unstable state (DOS)