Safety boundary: the MVP should be static analysis of user-provided specs. Do not probe live endpoints until explicit staging authorization, rate limits, and test scopes exist.
APIShield Blueprint
Find API security gaps before the API ships.
APIShield analyzes OpenAPI files and highlights missing authentication, sensitive routes, weak schemas, unsafe methods, and OWASP API Top 10 risk patterns.
Checks
Static OpenAPI review that developers understand
Authentication
Security scheme gaps
No security scheme, unauthenticated endpoints, inconsistent auth between similar routes, public admin paths, and weak password reset flows.
Authorization
Object and function access
ID-like path parameters, role-sensitive endpoints, bulk actions, admin verbs, and missing authorization notes.
Data exposure
Sensitive request shapes
Secrets in URLs, tokens in query strings, PII-heavy responses, missing response schemas, and file upload endpoints without restrictions.
Abuse resistance
Rate and validation clues
Missing rate-limit headers, unbounded pagination, large upload paths, unsafe methods, weak schemas, and unrestricted resource consumption hints.
MVP Shape
Upload, inspect, explain, export
Parse endpoints, methods, schemas, security schemes, parameters, tags, and descriptions.
Grouped findings, endpoint table, OWASP API mapping, remediation notes, and developer checklist.
Add staging probes only after auth handling, scope, consent, and safe test controls are mature.
A backend team can find the top five risky endpoints in under ten minutes.
Report Shape
Give developers a fix order, not a scare list
Endpoint inventory
Method, route, auth scheme, sensitivity hints, request shape, response shape, and owner tag where available.
Finding groups
Authentication, authorization, data exposure, abuse resistance, schema quality, and inventory gaps.
OWASP API mapping
Map issues to API Top 10 categories as guidance, not as proof of exploitability.
Developer checklist
Concrete next fixes such as add security scheme, document authorization, bound pagination, or restrict file upload.
Recommended build: start with static spec upload and a risk report, then add version comparison, Postman generation, CI/CD comments, and staging tests later.