Address the Growing Challenge of API Security in an Expanding Attack Surface

Today's organizations face an ever-expanding external attack surface. With the rise of cloud computing, APIs have become critical infrastructure connecting applications, data, and business processes. This interconnectedness, however, introduces new vulnerabilities. Unknown, forgotten, or misconfigured APIs (shadow APIs, zombie APIs, and rogue APIs) create entry points for attackers, increasing the risk of breaches, data leaks, and brand damage.

ThreatNG: A Holistic Approach to API Security

ThreatNG's comprehensive platform addresses this challenge by combining external attack surface management (EASM), digital risk protection (DRP), and security ratings with powerful API discovery capabilities. This holistic approach provides organizations with a complete view of their API security posture and the tools to mitigate risks proactively.

API Discovery: A Cornerstone of EASM

ThreatNG's multi-faceted API discovery engine is a core component of its EASM capabilities. It goes beyond traditional methods by leveraging multiple investigation modules to uncover hidden APIs:

• Domain Intelligence: This module analyzes DNS records, certificates, and exposed ports, providing crucial context for identifying potential API endpoints. It also identifies exposed development environments, VPNs, web application firewalls, and known vulnerabilities associated with the domain.

• Sensitive Code Exposure: Scans public code repositories for exposed API keys, configurations, and mobile apps, revealing clues to hidden APIs and potential security risks.

• Search Engine Exploitation: Leverages search engine queries to identify API endpoints inadvertently exposed through errors, advisories, public documentation, or even leaked credentials.

• Archived Web Pages: This module examines archived web pages for traces of APIs, including documentation, endpoints, and related files, providing historical context and insights into API evolution.

The Power of Integration: Enhancing Your Existing Security Stack

ThreatNG is not designed to replace your existing security solutions but to complement and enhance them. ThreatNG seamlessly integrates with:

• API Gateways: Enrich API gateways with real-time threat intelligence and vulnerability information from ThreatNG, enabling more effective traffic filtering and access control.

• Web Application Firewalls (WAFs): To improve protection against API-targeted attacks, enhance WAF rule sets with API-specific threat intelligence from ThreatNG.

• API Security Testing Tools: Augment API security testing with comprehensive API discovery from ThreatNG, ensuring that all APIs are included in security assessments.

• Vulnerability Scanners: Provide vulnerability scanners with accurate API inventories and context from ThreatNG, enabling more effective vulnerability prioritization and remediation.

• Threat Intelligence Platforms: Feed ThreatNG's API threat intelligence into your TIP for a consolidated view of your organization's threat landscape.

Threat Intelligence and Automation

ThreatNG's API provides access to real-time threat intelligence updates, historical data, and customizable reporting. This empowers organizations to:

• Automate security tasks: Integrate ThreatNG with your SOAR or SIEM to automate API threat detection and response.

• Proactively identify and mitigate risks: Stay ahead of emerging API threats with continuous monitoring and vulnerability assessments.

• Improve security posture: Gain a deeper understanding of your API attack surface and prioritize security efforts.

Practical Examples

• Identify and mitigate shadow APIs: ThreatNG's discovery engine can uncover forgotten or undocumented APIs, allowing security teams to assess their security posture and implement necessary controls.

• Prioritize vulnerability remediation: By combining API discovery with vulnerability scanning, organizations can prioritize remediation efforts based on the risk posed by each vulnerability.

• Enhance API gateway security: ThreatNG can provide API gateways with real-time threat intelligence, enabling dynamic traffic filtering and blocking of malicious requests.

• Detect and respond to API attacks: Integrate ThreatNG with your SOAR to automate incident response workflows for API-related threats.

Integrating API Discovery with ThreatNG's Comprehensive Security Assessments

ThreatNG goes beyond API discovery to provide a wide range of security assessments that help organizations understand and mitigate their overall risk:

• BEC & Phishing Susceptibility: This combines sentiment analysis, domain intelligence, and dark web presence to assess an organization's vulnerability to business email compromise and phishing attacks.

• Breach & Ransomware Susceptibility: Leverages domain intelligence, exposed ports, known vulnerabilities, and dark web presence to evaluate the likelihood of a breach or ransomware attack.

• Web Application Hijack Susceptibility: Analyzes external attack surface and digital risk intelligence, including domain intelligence, to identify potential entry points for attackers seeking to hijack web applications.

• Subdomain Takeover Susceptibility: Assesses the risk of subdomain takeover by examining DNS records, SSL certificates, and other relevant factors.

• Brand Damage Susceptibility: This approach combines attack surface intelligence, digital risk intelligence, ESG data, sentiment analysis, and financial data to evaluate the potential for brand damage.

• Data Leak Susceptibility: This leverages cloud and SaaS exposure, dark web presence, and domain intelligence to assess the risk of data leaks.

• Cyber Risk Exposure: Various factors, including certificates, subdomain headers, vulnerabilities, sensitive ports, code secret exposure, and cloud and SaaS exposure, are considered to determine overall cyber risk.

• ESG Exposure: Evaluates an organization's vulnerability to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks based on sentiment analysis, financial analysis, and publicly available information.

• Supply Chain & Third Party Exposure: Analyzes domain intelligence, technology stack, and cloud and SaaS exposure to assess risks associated with the supply chain and third-party vendors.

Continuous Monitoring, Reporting, and Intelligence Repositories

ThreatNG provides continuous monitoring, customizable reporting, and access to extensive intelligence repositories, including:

• Dark web monitoring: Identifies mentions of the organization, associated ransomware events, and compromised credentials.

• Compromised credentials monitoring: Detects leaked or stolen credentials that could be used to access APIs and other sensitive systems.

• Ransomware event and group tracking: Provides insights into ransomware trends and threat actors targeting organizations.

• Known vulnerability database: Offers comprehensive information on known vulnerabilities, including those affecting APIs.

• ESG violation tracking: Monitors for potential ESG violations that could impact the organization's reputation.

ThreatNG's Investigation Modules Enhance API Security

ThreatNG's comprehensive investigation modules further enhance its API security capabilities. These modules provide deep insights into an organization's digital footprint, including:

• Social Media: Analyzes social media posts for potential security risks, such as accidental data leakage or phishing attempts.

• Cloud and SaaS Exposure: Identifies sanctioned and unsanctioned cloud services, cloud service impersonations, open exposed cloud buckets, and SaaS implementations that may expose APIs.

• Online Sharing Exposure: This feature detects the presence of organizational entities on online code-sharing platforms, where sensitive information, including API keys, may be inadvertently exposed.

• Sentiment and Financials: Analyzes news articles, SEC filings, and other sources to identify potential reputational and financial risks.

• Technology Stack: Provides a comprehensive view of the technologies used by the organization, including API management solutions, which can help identify potential vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.

Conclusion

ThreatNG's integrated approach to API security, combining EASM, DRP, and security ratings with powerful API discovery and comprehensive investigation modules, empowers organizations to manage their API attack surface effectively. ThreatNG helps organizations protect their critical assets and maintain a strong security posture in today's interconnected world by providing a holistic view of their digital footprint and the tools to mitigate risks proactively.