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Active Testing enables businesses to prevent attacks and reduce vulnerabilities with each release
SAN JOSE, Calif .– (BUSINESS WIRE)-Noname Security, the leading API security company, today announced the launch of its Active Testing solution within the Noname API Security Platform. Active Testing was created with the goal to address specific application programming interface (API) challenges and to enable organizations to use a ‘shift left’ approach to API security testing.
Active Analysis allows businesses to stop vulnerabilities before they reach production and innovate faster without compromising security. With Active Analysis, organizations can continue to refine and strengthen their API security posture and reduce the risk of malicious breaches.
APIs are critical to business transformation and at the heart of a company’s strategies for growth and innovation. However, they also represent a significant security risk. Traditional controls such as API gateways and web application firewalls (WAFs) enable APIs to be vulnerable to targeted attacks or malicious abuse, making them the leading vector of attacks for web applications. Attacks that cause data breaches or compromised performance can lead to regulatory fines, reputational damage, and loss of revenue.
As a result, API security should be a priority for every organization, but until now the tools available have failed to address vulnerabilities prior to production.
The Noname Security Active Testing solution minimizes the overhead of API attacks by ensuring that vulnerabilities are identified before they reach production. It immediately alerts developers to vulnerabilities in business logic, such as the OWASP API Top 10, and its tests and simulations are based on real business logic, not vague. This ensures a high level of accuracy and relevance and minimizes false positives. Developers can deliver secure code without having to be security experts and use APIs with confidence.
Accelerates vulnerability remediation, and eliminates security bottlenecks, by being able to integrate Active Analysis into existing developer, IT, and security workflows and service management tools including ServiceNow, Jira, and Slack.
The cost of remediating vulnerabilities dramatically decreases when they are identified and fixed earlier in the software development life cycle (SDLC), while addressing them before they reach production allows the business to reduce spending on penetration testing and other third-party testing services. Plus, the solution’s advanced test automation capabilities mean it can integrate seamlessly with existing CI/CD systems, improving the API’s security posture without interrupting the speed of change.
Advanced customization powers tailored to API security testing programs
Customization is essential to fast and effective API security testing. Active Testing allows organizations to easily create test suites tailored to specific business objectives, with role-based access controls to ensure that only authorized personnel can access APIs for testing. Active Analysis also allows APIs to be grouped by business line, applications, teams, or any other parameter, allowing developers to align their development process with business needs. . Similarly, Active Testing can be run in any environment, from test and lab environments to presentation.
Active Testing delivers unmatched coverage, with the ability to automatically run over 100 dynamic tests that simulate malicious traffic. Testing practice can be adjusted, and severity adjusted, to accurately simulate the organization’s live environment and real -world threats. Developers can also compare Swagger files to understand compliance with the original specification and how the API evolved.
The solution is quick to implement, delivering fast time-to-value. This is a critical advantage compared to the standard time it can take to implement, test, and deploy runtime protections and remediation integration for the production environment. These can take months to configure effectively, while a successful vulnerability exploit only takes a few seconds. Removing vulnerabilities before they reach production eliminates this risk and is a great tool to change the integrity of an organization’s codebase.
“Businesses need to realize the power of APIs without compromising development speed or security,” said Shay Levi, co-founder, and CTO at Noname Security. “Our Active Testing solution enables dynamic API security testing within current development pipelines, which detects issues early in the software development life stage where more they are easy and cheaper to fix. It is highly customizable and automated, testing with the rigor and intensity required by the business without burdening developers with additional steps or requiring them to become security experts.
“Unlike traditional tools, our solution understands business logic, enabling the development of purpose-built tests that deliver highly accurate and relevant results. Active Analysis is revolutionary for to organizations that aim to move left using API security testing and prevent malicious violations. ”
Noname’s Active Testing solution is available as SaaS or on-premise, providing ultimate flexibility according to each customer’s preferences.
About Noname Security
Noname Security is the only company that takes a complete, proactive approach to API Security. Noname works with 20% of the Fortune 500 and covers the full scope of API security in three pillars – Posture Management, Runtime Security, and API Security Testing. Noname Security is private, remote-first with headquarters in Palo Alto, California, and offices in Tel Aviv and Amsterdam.
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Source: Noname Security