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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.

🔥 Pynt's API Security Testing is fully available for Business plan users, and limited for Starter plan users (up to 10 API endpoints) 🆓.

How Does Pynt Work?

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

  • Detect real vulnerabilities 🔍

  • Discover APIs 📚

  • Suggest fixes for verified vulnerabilities 🛠️

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 ⚡.

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

  • Leverage functional tests for maximum API coverage, as tests evolve with your APIs 🔄.

Pynt's testing flow

Getting Started

🔗 Get started with Pynt’s API Security Testing: Pynt’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 📋

  2. Run a single scan - start directly from here or choose from the supported integrations below🔍

  3. Integrate Pynt with your CI/CD pipeline for continuous coverage 🔄

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

🔐 Power of Continuous API Pentesting in CI/CD: Integrating API security testing into your CI/CD pipeline ensures vulnerabilities are detected early in the development lifecycle.

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.

👉 Get started with integrating Pynt into your CI/CD.

Github Actions example:
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