APIsec Launches Automated Penetration Testing to Secure APIs
APIsec automates API penetration testing, providing continuous visibility and complete test coverage.
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/
APIsec, the leading vendor of API security solutions, has unveiled its latest capability, Automated Penetration Testing. Manual penetration testing, typically carried out annually or quarterly, is no longer in-sync with modern application development practices. Not only are the tests too infrequent, but they often overlook the API layer, which now constitutes 90% of the attack surface for all web-enabled apps.
APIsec now offers a fully automated API security testing platform giving DevOps and Security teams continuous visibility and complete coverage for APIs. The platform automatically:
Automated Pen Testing: Can It Replace Humans?
These tools have come a long way, but are they far enough along to make human pen testers obsolete?
Cybersecurity automation has increased dramatically in the past few years, but penetration testing has remained stubbornly immune. While crowdsourced security evolved as an alternative to pen testing in the past 10 years, it s not based on automation but simply throwing more humans at a problem (and, in the process, creating its own set of weaknesses). Recently though, automated pen-testing tools have advanced to a point where they are usable under certain conditions. This begs the question: Can these tools replace human pen testers?