Security Testing Overview

Get a comprehensive overview of security testing in Pynt. Understand how Pynt's advanced tools help identify vulnerabilities, assess risks, and secure your APIs effectively.

How Does Pynt Work?

Pynt leverages an integrated shift-left approach and unique hack technology using home-grown attack scenarios to:

  • Detect real vulnerabilities ๐Ÿ”

  • Discover APIs ๐Ÿ“š

  • Suggest fixes for verified vulnerabilities ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ

Pynt acts like a hacker: It deeply analyses normal API traffic to build a model and then generates simulated attacks, verifies if the attack succeeds, and determines whether your API is vulnerable.


Why Use Your Functional Tests?

Unlike other platforms (e.g., fuzzing), Pynt uses traffic from your functional tests to create real attack scenarios. This approach allows Pynt to:

  • Perform tests with no configuration, running in minutes โšก.

  • Provide an accurate overview of vulnerabilities with near-zero false positives ๐ŸŽฏ.

  • Leverage functional tests for maximum API coverage, as tests evolve with your APIs ๐Ÿ”„.

Pynt's testing flow

Getting Started

๐Ÿ”— Get started with Pyntโ€™s API Security Testing: Pyntโ€™s security engine goes beyond conventional measures, leveraging your existing API functional tests for proactive testing.

To get started quickly with Pynt, we recommend the following steps:

  1. Follow the Prerequisites ๐Ÿ“‹

  2. Run a single scan - start directly from here or choose from the supported integrations below๐Ÿ”

  3. Integrate Pynt with your CI/CD pipeline for continuous coverage ๐Ÿ”„


Available integrations

Pynt leverages a sophisticated context-aware security engine that goes beyond conventional measures. By leveraging your existing tools and functional tests, it conducts proactive API security tests directly from your local machine:


Integrate API Security Testing Into Your CI/CD

We recommend to add Pynt into your CI/CD for continuous monitoring for API Security vulnerabilities. Pynt API security testing suite seamlessly integrates into existing development tools and CI/CD workflows.

๐Ÿ‘‰ Get started with integrating Pynt into your CI/CD.

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