API Security Assessment
API Security Assessment delivered by SecByte consultants: scoped engagement, manual validation of every reported issue, and a professional report your engineering team can act on.
manual
ai assisted
One-time engagement
Overview
API Security Assessment is a scoped, human-led engagement delivered by SecByte consultants within Application Security. We combine automated tooling and AI-assisted analysis for coverage with manual testing for accuracy — every reported issue is validated by a consultant before it reaches your report, so your team never spends time on false positives.
Who needs this
- Organisations with a compliance, customer or audit requirement
- Teams shipping changes to systems that handle sensitive data
- Security leaders who need an independent, evidence-backed view of risk
What we test
- Business logic and workflow abuse
- Object-level and function-level authorisation
- Input validation, encoding and output handling
- Secrets management and dependency hygiene
- Client-side security controls and headers
Methodology
- 1Architecture and threat-model walkthrough
- 2Authenticated role-by-role coverage
- 3Manual logic and authorisation testing
- 4Exploitation with reproducible evidence
- 5Reporting, developer debrief and retest
Deliverables
- Executive summary for leadership
- Technical findings report with evidence
- Severity classification and CVSS scoring
- Prioritised remediation guidance
- Remediation debrief call
Typical scope inputs
- Application URLs and API specs
- Source repositories where in scope
- Role matrix and test users
Optional add-ons
- Free retest of remediated findings
- Executive briefing for leadership or the board
- Client-safe attestation letter for customers
- Developer or engineering remediation workshop