Alternatives to APIsec in Healthcare

middleBrick is a black-box API security scanner that submits requests and analyzes responses without requiring agent deployment, code access, or SDK integration. It supports any language, framework, or cloud target. The scanner completes most checks in under a minute using read-only methods such as GET and HEAD, with text-only POST used only for LLM probes. This approach limits production impact while still exercising security relevant endpoints and configurations.

The scanner evaluates 12 categories aligned to the OWASP API Top 10 (2023). It maps findings to compliance requirements of PCI-DSS 4.0 and SOC 2 Type II, and supports audit evidence for these frameworks. Detection capabilities include authentication bypass and JWT misconfigurations, broken object level authorization and IDOR, business logic abuse indicators, property exposure and mass assignment, input validation issues such as CORS wildcard usage and dangerous methods, rate limiting and oversized payloads, data exposure patterns including PII and API key leakage, encryption and transport misconfigurations, SSRF indicators, inventory issues like missing versioning, unsafe consumption surfaces, and LLM / AI security probes across multiple scan tiers.

Authenticated scanning is available from the Starter tier upward, supporting Bearer tokens, API keys, Basic authentication, and cookies. Before credentials are accepted, a domain verification gate confirms ownership through a DNS TXT record or an HTTP well-known file. Only a limited set of headers, including Authorization, X-API-Key, Cookie, and X-Custom-*, are forwarded to target APIs. This design reduces risk while enabling deeper coverage for protected endpoints.

The scanner parses OpenAPI 3.0, 3.1, and Swagger 2.0 documents and resolves recursive $ref references. It cross-references the spec definitions against runtime findings to surface undefined security schemes, sensitive fields, deprecated operations, and missing pagination controls. These checks help validate controls described in API specifications and provide findings relevant to design reviews and documentation accuracy.

middleBrick detects and reports findings with remediation guidance but does not fix, patch, block, or remediate issues automatically. It does not perform active SQL injection or command injection testing, which requires intrusive payloads outside the intended scope. Business logic vulnerabilities and blind SSRF detection are also out of scope, as they typically require deeper contextual understanding and out-of-band infrastructure. The tool does not replace a human pentester for high-stakes audits.