Astra API Security Platform: Comprehensive API Discovery and Security Scanning Solution
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Summary
Astra's API Security Platform is designed to help security and engineering teams discover undocumented, shadow, zombie, and dormant APIs through real-time traffic analysis. The platform performs offensive DAST scans with over 15,000 test cases that go beyond OWASP API Top 10 vulnerabilities, addressing common API security blind spots without slowing down development processes.
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What I realized is that while most teams knew they had blind spots, they didn't have the visibility or tooling to actually surface and fix them without slowing down
Astra API Security Platform discovers every undocumented, shadow, zombie & dormant API in your infrastructure using real-time traffic analysis
Performs offensive DAST scans on the APIs with 15,000+ test cases, which go beyond just OWASP API Top 10
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