Alternatives to APIsec in E-Commerce
What middleBrick covers
- Black-box API scanning without agents or SDK integration
- Under one minute scan time with prioritized findings
- Detection of authentication and JWT misconfigurations
- BOLA, IDOR, and privilege escalation probing
- LLM security adversarial probes across scan tiers
- OpenAPI 3.x and Swagger 2.0 parsing with $ref resolution
Scope and testing approach for e-commerce APIs
E-commerce platforms expose public and partner APIs for checkout, catalog, payment status, and account management. These surfaces require a scanner that operates without code access and without disrupting production traffic. This product performs a black-box scan, sending only read-only methods plus text-only LLM probes, completing assessments in under one minute.
Detection coverage aligned to e-commerce risks
The scanner evaluates 12 categories aligned to the OWASP API Top 10 (2023), with mappings relevant to authentication, authorization, and data exposure on shopping and account APIs. It checks authentication bypass and JWT misconfigurations, BOLA and IDOR via sequential ID enumeration, BFLA and privilege escalation through admin endpoint probing, and property over-exposure including mass-assignment surfaces. Input validation covers CORS wildcard usage and dangerous HTTP methods; rate limiting is assessed via header detection and oversized responses. Data exposure checks for PII patterns such as email and context-aware SSN, API key formats for AWS and GitHub, and error/stack-trace leakage. Encryption analysis validates HTTPS redirects, HSTS, and cookie flags. SSRF probes target URL-accepting parameters and internal IP detection. Inventory management flags missing versioning and legacy paths, while unsafe consumption surfaces excessive third-party URLs and webhook endpoints. LLM security includes 18 adversarial probes across Quick, Standard, and Deep tiers for system prompt extraction, jailbreaks, data exfiltration, and token smuggling.
OpenAPI and contract validation for catalog and checkout
The scanner parses OpenAPI 3.0, 3.1, and Swagger 2.0 definitions with recursive $ref resolution. It cross-references spec definitions against runtime behavior to surface undefined security schemes, sensitive fields, deprecated operations, and missing pagination. This helps identify mismatches between documented e-commerce flows and actual endpoints used by web and mobile clients.
Authenticated scanning and domain verification for partners
Authenticated scans support Bearer, API key, Basic auth, and Cookie credentials, with a domain verification gate that requires DNS TXT record or HTTP well-known file proof to ensure only the domain owner can scan with credentials. A strict header allowlist limits forwarded headers to Authorization, X-API-Key, Cookie, and X-Custom-* to reduce credential exposure while validating session handling for cart and payment APIs.
Continuous monitoring and compliance mapping
Pro tier features scheduled rescans every 6 hours, daily, weekly, or monthly, with diff detection to highlight new findings, resolved findings, and score drift. Email alerts are rate-limited to one per hour per API, and HMAC-SHA256 signed webhooks auto-disable after five consecutive failures. Findings map directly to PCI-DSS 4.0, SOC 2 Type II, and OWASP API Top 10 (2023), helping you prepare for audits and surfacing findings relevant to controls described in these frameworks.