How to Improve Developer Productivity and API Security Posture

The proliferation of APIs has made them an attractive target for bad actors, so organizations need to adopt a multi-layered approach to protect their APIs. This starts with API design and progresses to the deployment and production runtime phases. To implement API security from the early stages effectively requires giving development teams tooling that lets them maintain productivity levels but at the same time ensures that they comply with API security governance guidelines mandated by the security teams.

42Crunch has always championed the importance of the role played by the developer in API security and with over 1.2 million developers using our tools, we understand what it takes to avoid delaying the delivery of APIs, without neglecting API security. 

We recently launched 42Crunch API Capture as the latest service available on our API Security platform and share below some of the feedback from customers on how it helps their overall API security processes. 

Discover your API Documentation:API Capture identifies unknown API traffic on the network and reconciles OpenAPI definitions with real traffic. It can ingest traffic using standards such as HAR and PCAP and also Postman collections making it quick and easy to close the loop between what is mandated and what is actually built by development.

Automating OpenAPI Documentation:
With API Capture, developers can automatically generate comprehensive API contract documentation without spending hours manually documenting each endpoint. This saves valuable time and ensures that documentation is always up-to-date.

Automate Security Test Configurations :
API Capture automatically generates testing configurations for the 42Crunch API Dynamic Testing engine. Those configurations can then be used to automatically test APIs for security flaws and conformance issues. This proactive approach prevents security flaws from delaying project timelines or compromising the integrity of the application.

Automation of Testing:
Testing APIs can be complex, especially when dealing with multiple interconnected systems. API Capture seamlessly integrates with the 42Crunch API security platform’s testing and protection services to automate and scale testing and remove the need for manual intervention.  

Ultimately, API Capture improves developer productivity and efficiency by automating tedious manual processes. At the same time security officers can be confident that the API contracts being created are compliant with the overall API security policies.