Alternatives to APIsec on Django

This scanner operates as a black-box solution with no agents, no SDK integration, and no access to your code or runtime. It sends read-only HTTP requests and does not execute code on your servers. Because it does not depend on instrumentation, it works with any language, framework, or cloud stack, including Django.

Scan coverage is protocol-level and does not require build artifacts or debug symbols. You submit a URL and receive a risk score with prioritized findings within under a minute. The scanner supports GET and HEAD methods by default and text-only POST for LLM probes, keeping the approach conservative and non-intrusive.

The scanner maps findings to OWASP API Top 10 (2023), covering common API risks without claiming broader compliance guarantees. Detection categories include authentication bypass, JWT misconfigurations such as alg=none or expired tokens, IDOR via sequential ID enumeration, privilege escalation through admin endpoint probing, and sensitive data exposure including API keys and PII patterns.

Additional checks include CORS wildcard usage, dangerous HTTP methods, debug endpoints, rate-limit header visibility, SSRF indicators like URL-accepting parameters, and server fingerprinting. For LLM-facing APIs, the scanner runs 18 adversarial probes across Quick, Standard, and Deep tiers to surface prompt extraction, jailbreak attempts, data exfiltration patterns, and token smuggling risks.

The tool parses OpenAPI 3.0, 3.1, and Swagger 2.0 documents with recursive $ref resolution. It cross-references spec definitions against runtime behavior to highlight mismatches such as undefined security schemes, sensitive fields exposed by the runtime, deprecated operations, and missing pagination controls.

This approach helps identify deviations between declared design and actual behavior in Django-hosted APIs, especially around authentication methods and data exposure surfaces. The scanner supports Bearer, API key, Basic auth, and Cookie-based authentication for authenticated scans, with domain verification to ensure only domain owners can enable credentials.

The scanner uses read-only methods only and never sends destructive payloads. Internal infrastructure elements such as private IPs, localhost, and cloud metadata endpoints are blocked at multiple layers to prevent accidental or intentional probing of non-scope targets.

Customer scan data is deletable on demand and purged within 30 days of cancellation. It is never sold and is not used for model training. The tool does not fix, patch, block, or remediate findings; it reports findings with remediation guidance and does not perform active SQL injection or command injection testing.

You can use the scanner via the Web Dashboard for centralized reporting and score trend tracking, the CLI with a simple command such as middlebrick scan <url> and JSON or text output, or the GitHub Action to gate CI/CD when scores drop below a threshold. An MCP Server enables scanning from AI coding assistants like Claude and Cursor.

For ongoing monitoring, the Pro tier supports scheduled rescans every 6 hours, daily, weekly, or monthly, with diff detection across scans and email alerts rate-limited to one per hour per API. HMAC-SHA256 signed webhooks are included, with auto-disable after five consecutive failures.

Free tier offers three scans per month and CLI access. Starter at 99 dollars per month supports 15 APIs, monthly scans, dashboard, email alerts, and MCP Server. Pro at 499 dollars per month supports 100 APIs with additional APIs billed separately, continuous monitoring, GitHub Action gates, CI/CD integration, Slack and Teams alerts, compliance reports, and signed webhooks. Enterprise at 2000 dollars per month offers unlimited APIs, custom rules, SSO, audit logs, SLA, and dedicated support.