Antoine Carossio - Escape - The API Security Blog

DAST is dead, why Business Logic Security Testing takes center stage

“DAST is dead”—that’s the phrase that appears every year on social media and in cybersecurity newsletters. But what if in 2024, it finally came true? DAST, Dynamic Application Security Testing (even though we see a new terminology “Dynamic API Security Testing” popping up here and there within the

API Security

Escape's proprietary Business Logic Security Testing algorithm: what makes it innovative

Testing APIs for Business Logic vulnerabilities is hard. Actually, this is a mission that old-school DAST solutions like OWASP ZAP cannot handle. I'm Antoine Carossio, passionate about Computer Science for more than 15 years now and cofounder & CTO of Escape. With my team, we've spent

API Security

Introducing business logic security testing for REST APIs

After one year and a half of approaching API security through the lenses of GraphQL, we are proud to introduce full support for REST API Security Testing in Escape, in addition to GraphQL 🚀 You like us on GraphQL. You will love us on REST. It's been a ride

GraphQL Query Cost Analysis

You must have understood that GraphQL is a very powerful language! Indeed, it is the query language used by the world's largest social network: Facebook (they created it in 2012 and made it public in 2015). However, these benefits and power also come with added complexity. This complexity

Attack Surface Management

Unveiling API Catalog for GraphQL

Escape launches the first Asset Inventory and Attack Surface Management solution for GraphQL APIs with its new API Catalog feature.

GraphQL

Introducing seamless compliance for GraphQL

As your go-to partner in GraphQL Security, we at Escape are constantly innovating to simplify and streamline security for you. We're proud of our reputation for crafting modern, dynamic application security testing (DAST) tools tailored to GraphQL, beloved by developers and trusted by security teams worldwide. From comprehensive

GraphQL

Input Validation and Sanitization in GraphQL

Why input validation and sanitization are important in GraphQL? GraphQL allows you to identify the data and validate inputs based on type information. By default, GraphQL Specification has the Int, Float, String, Boolean and ID Scalar types. But as a conscious API developer, you've probably come across situations

Say Hi to SecureGPT: The free Security Tool for ChatGPT Developers

👋 tl;dr Are you a ChatGPT plugin developer who wants to ensure the safety and security of your creations? Look no further. Escape is thrilled to announce the release of SecureGPT, a lightning-fast and free security tool designed specifically for ChatGPT plugins. Secure your ChatGPT plugins in seconds with SecureGPT

GraphQL Vulnerability

Demystifying GraphQL Security: A Comprehensive Guide to Introspection

Whether or not to disable introspection has been a common debate among GraphQL developers since its inception. In this blog post, we will explain why completely disabling introspection is not necessary and why it can be counterproductive. I can't really find any good reasons for blocking/removing #GraphQL

Introducing API Security Posture Management for GraphQL

tl;dr The Escape Team is excited to announce the release of its latest feature, API Security Posture Management for GraphQL. This feature proposes a single API Catalog view to explore the security, integrity, and performance of all GraphQL operations in one place. You can give it a try for

Introducing OpenAPI.Security, a free tool to quickly check the security of REST APIs

tl;dr We released OpenAPI.security, an online tool that performs a dozen of security tests on any given OpenAPI/Swagger-based API, with no signup or email required Our team at Escape is mainly focused on securing GraphQL APIs. For this, we developed a new approach called feedback-driven API exploration,

Escape is proud to be backed by Y Combinator!

Escape is proud to announce that we are backed by Y Combinator, the world's most prestigious and well-known startup accelerator, joining the YC Winter 23 batch! Y Combinator, known for investing in and mentoring early-stage startups, has an impressive portfolio of successful companies such as Airbnb, Dropbox, and

Access Control and Data Segregation in multi-tenant GraphQL applications

If you have ever worked with GraphQL, you must know that ensuring proper data segregation and access control is implemented correctly is a nightmare, especially in multi-tenant environments. Access control and data segregation are critical aspects of any multi-tenant application where multiple customers or tenants share the same application instance.

Announcing GraphQL Armor support for GraphQL Yoga 2 - Bringing security by default to GraphQL

We are utterly excited to introduce GraphQL Armor compatibility with Yoga 2. When the GraphQL Ecosystem encounters Security A few weeks ago, we released GraphQL Armor, an open-source middleware to add a security layer on top of GraphQL endpoints and mitigate common attacks. GraphQL Armor blocks abusive requests by putting