StackHawk API Security

StackHawk API Security is a developer-centric application and API security testing platform designed to discover, test, and fix exploitable vulnerabilities in modern REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and SOAP APIs throughout the software development lifecycle. Engineered to integrate directly into developer workflows and automated continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, StackHawk runs dynamic application security testing (DAST) scans against running applications in ephemeral pull-request environments before code reaches production. The platform ingests OpenAPI, Swagger, Postman, and GraphQL introspection schemas to autonomously map out all API endpoints, parameters, and authentication schemes, ensuring thorough test coverage of modern microservices. StackHawk actively tests for the complete OWASP API Security Top 10 vulnerabilities—including broken object level authorization (BOLA), broken authentication, unrestricted resource consumption, and server-side request forgery (SSRF). When a vulnerability is discovered, StackHawk provides developers with actionable, reproducible findings, including exact HTTP request and response payloads, curl commands for local replication, and in-depth remediation advice. By shifting API security testing left into developer environments, StackHawk API Security enables engineering teams to ship secure software rapidly without relying on slow, out-of-band security reviews.