Alternatives to 42Crunch for HIPAA Security Rule alignment
What middleBrick covers
- Black-box scanning with no agents, SDKs, or code access required
- Risk scoring with prioritized findings in under a minute
- Detection of JWT misconfigurations and authentication bypass methods
- OWASP API Top 10 (2023) coverage with framework mapping
- LLM adversarial probes across multiple scan depth tiers
- OpenAPI 3.0/3.1 and Swagger 2.0 parsing with ref resolution
Scope and approach to API security assessment
This scanner is a black-box tool that submits read-only requests to an API and analyzes responses for security risks. It does not modify state, execute destructive payloads, or require code or SDK changes. You submit a target URL and receive a letter-grade risk score with prioritized findings and remediation guidance. Scan time is under one minute, and the engine only uses GET, HEAD, and text-only POST methods.
Detection aligned to OWASP API Top 10 and mapping to security frameworks
The scanner covers 12 categories aligned to OWASP API Top 10 (2023). It maps findings to OWASP API Top 10 controls and supports audit evidence for SOC 2 Type II and PCI-DSS 4.0 by surfacing relevant configuration and data exposure findings. It also helps you prepare for security controls described in HIPAA Security Rule by identifying authentication weaknesses, data exposure risks, and encryption issues that may affect electronic protected health information. No claims are made that the tool certifies or ensures compliance with any regulatory framework.
Authentication, authorization, and sensitive data checks
The tool tests authentication bypass methods, JWT misconfigurations such as alg=none and HS256 usage, expired tokens, and missing claims. It checks security headers, WWW-Authenticate compliance, and sensitive data leakage within tokens. It supports Bearer, API key, Basic auth, and Cookie authentication for authenticated scans, with domain verification to ensure only domain owners can submit credentials. Authorization testing includes BOLA-style ID enumeration and BFLA checks for privilege escalation via admin endpoints or role/permission field exposure.
Input validation, SSRF, and infrastructure safety measures
Input validation checks include CORS wildcard usage with credentials, dangerous HTTP methods, and debug endpoints. SSRF detection focuses on URL-accepting parameters and body fields, with passive internal IP and metadata endpoint blocking at multiple layers. The scanner never sends destructive payloads; private IPs, localhost, and cloud metadata endpoints are blocked. Customer data is deletable on demand and purged within 30 days of cancellation, and it is never used for model training.
LLM and AI security probing, OpenAPI analysis, and integrations
The scanner includes LLM / AI security testing with 18 adversarial probes across Quick, Standard, and Deep tiers, covering system prompt extraction, instruction override, jailbreak techniques, data exfiltration attempts, and token smuggling. It parses OpenAPI 3.0, 3.1, and Swagger 2.0 with recursive $ref resolution and cross-references spec definitions against runtime findings. Available integrations include a web dashboard, CLI via an npm package, a GitHub Action for CI/CD gating, an MCP server for AI coding assistants, and a programmable API for custom workflows.