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.

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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 🔄

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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:

• Get started with API testing tools 🛠️

• Get started with API testing CLIs 🖥️

• Get started with API testing frameworks ⚙️

• Get started with Burp Suite 🔍

• Get started with Browser testing 🌐

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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.

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