Partner
API Security Testing
That Protects Your
Data
APIs are the #1 attack vector. Our specialists find authentication bypasses, BOLA vulnerabilities, and business logic flaws that scanners miss.
Complete API Protocol Coverage
Expert testing across REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, and microservices architectures
Comprehensive security assessment of RESTful APIs for authentication, authorization, and data exposure vulnerabilities.
Specialized testing for GraphQL APIs including introspection abuse, query depth attacks, and authorization flaws.
Real-time communication security assessment for WebSocket implementations and streaming APIs.
End-to-end security testing of microservices architectures including service mesh and API gateways.
API Security Dashboard
Real-time visibility into your API security posture
Our Testing Methodology
A rigorous, structured approach aligned with international standards and tailored to UAE regulatory requirements
What We Deliver
Comprehensive API security testing with actionable remediation
Complete coverage of all OWASP API Security Top 10 vulnerabilities with detailed findings.
Deep testing of OAuth, JWT, API keys, and access control mechanisms.
Testing for application-specific logic flaws that automated tools miss.
Testing across all API types and protocols used in your environment.
Identify shadow APIs and undocumented endpoints in your environment.
Why ITSEC for API Security?
See how our API security expertise compares
Why ITSEC
UAE's leading API security testing specialists
- Payment APIs and gateways
- Open banking platforms
- Mobile app backends
- Manual expert testing
- Business logic analysis
- Chain vulnerability detection
- Payment providers
- Digital banks
- Investment platforms
- OWASP API Security certified
- Protocol-specific expertise
- Custom testing tools
- Real-time finding alerts
- Remediation guidance
- 30-day free retest
Leading UAE Financial Institution
A prominent UAE bank with over AED 50B in assets required comprehensive security testing before their annual regulatory audit. Previous assessments had missed critical vulnerabilities, leading to remediation delays and regulatory concerns.
Our team of 4 senior CREST-certified testers conducted a 3-week comprehensive assessment covering external infrastructure, internal network, web applications, and mobile banking apps. We employed a hybrid methodology combining automated scanning with extensive manual testing.
"ITSEC's API testing uncovered critical vulnerabilities in our payment gateway integration that our internal team missed. Their detailed remediation guidance helped us fix issues quickly and avoid a potential data breach."
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about our services
We test all major API types and protocols used in modern applications:
- REST APIs — full endpoint enumeration, authentication, and data exposure testing
- GraphQL — introspection abuse, batching attacks, field-level authorization
- WebSocket — message tampering, authentication bypass, real-time injection
- Microservices — inter-service trust, lateral movement, and service mesh security
- SOAP, gRPC, and custom binary protocols on request
Source code access is optional, not required. We offer three testing approaches to suit your situation:
- Black Box — no credentials or docs, simulates an external attacker
- Grey Box — API documentation and credentials provided for deeper coverage
- White Box — full source code access for maximum depth on critical systems
White Box engagements surface the most vulnerabilities and are recommended for APIs handling sensitive financial or medical data.
We strongly recommend testing against a staging or sandbox environment that mirrors production. Where production testing is necessary, we follow strict rules of engagement — all tests are scoped, pre-approved, run during low-traffic windows, and use non-destructive techniques that produce no lasting side-effects on live data.
Every report is delivered within 24 hours of assessment completion and includes:
- Executive summary for non-technical stakeholders
- Full technical findings with CVSS scores and proof-of-concept
- OWASP API Top 10 mapping for each vulnerability
- Code-level remediation guidance in your stack's language
- Risk-prioritised remediation roadmap
- Free re-test within 30 days to verify fixes
Timelines scale with the number of endpoints and complexity:
- Small API (under 30 endpoints): 2–3 business days
- Medium API (30–100 endpoints): 1 week
- Large or microservices platform: 2–3 weeks
- Report delivered within 24 hours of testing completion
Yes — mobile API testing is one of our specialisms. We intercept and analyse traffic from iOS and Android applications to identify hidden endpoints, insecure data transmission, weak authentication tokens, and backend logic flaws that are only reachable through mobile clients. We can also combine this with a mobile application security assessment on request.
Yes. We regularly test APIs protected by AWS API Gateway, Kong, Apigee, Azure APIM, and other gateways. Our testing covers both gateway-level controls (rate limiting, authentication enforcement, WAF bypass) and the underlying backend services to ensure gateway policies cannot be circumvented via direct access or misconfigured routing rules.