Alternatives to 42Crunch on Restify

middleBrick is a self-service API security scanner that assesses Restify endpoints without requiring access to source code or runtime instrumentation. You submit a URL, and the platform returns a risk score from A to F with prioritized findings. The scanner operates with read-only methods (GET and HEAD) and text-only POST for LLM probes, completing a scan in under a minute.

The scanner evaluates 12 categories aligned to OWASP API Top 10 (2023), relevant when assessing Restify surfaces. It checks authentication bypasses and JWT misconfigurations such as alg=none and HS256 usage, BOLA and IDOR via sequential ID enumeration, BFLA through admin endpoint probing, and property authorization over-exposure. Additional coverage includes input validation misconfigurations like CORS wildcard usage, rate-limiting indicators, data exposure patterns including PII and API key formats, encryption hygiene, SSRF indicators in URL accepting parameters, inventory issues such as missing versioning, unsafe consumption surfaces, and LLM security probes across tiered scan depths.

middleBrick parses OpenAPI 3.0, 3.1, and Swagger 2.0 definitions for Restify services, resolving recursive $ref entries and cross-referencing spec definitions against runtime behavior. This helps surface undefined security schemes, sensitive field exposure, deprecated operations, and missing pagination controls. Authenticated scanning supports Bearer, API key, Basic auth, and Cookie methods, gated by domain verification so only domain owners can submit credentials. A strict header allowlist ensures only Authorization, X-API-Key, Cookie, and X-Custom-* headers are forwarded during assessment.

For ongoing risk tracking, the Pro tier offers scheduled rescans every 6 hours, daily, weekly, or monthly, with diff detection to highlight new findings, resolved items, and score drift. Alerts are delivered via email at a rate-limited frequency of 1 per hour per API, and HMAC-SHA256 signed webhooks can notify downstream systems with auto-disable after 5 consecutive failures. Integration options include a web dashboard for reporting and trend analysis, a CLI via the middlebrick npm package using middlebrick scan <url>, a GitHub Action that fails CI/CD builds when scores drop below a defined threshold, and an MCP server for use with AI coding assistants.

middleBrick maintains a read-only safety posture, never sending destructive payloads and blocking private IPs, localhost, and cloud metadata endpoints at multiple layers. Customer scan data is deletable on demand and purged within 30 days of cancellation, and it is never sold or used for model training. The platform maps findings to compliance evidence for PCI-DSS 4.0, SOC 2 Type II, and OWASP API Top 10 (2023). For other frameworks, it helps you prepare for and aligns with security controls described in relevant standards, while clearly stating that it is a scanning tool and not an auditor or certifying entity.