Our AI strategy for preemptive security
APIs are critical components of most modern applications we rely on, enabling applications to communicate and exchange data. In fact, 80% of internet traffic flows through APIs. But an API’s utility depends on whether it’s reliable enough to be used; APIs that perform consistently and reliably earn trust and adoption, while those that fail are abandoned.
This value and reach make APIs attractive targets for attackers, putting even the most trustworthy, well-established APIs at risk. In 2024 alone, 84% of security professionals reported an API security incident—up from 78% in 2023. This correlates with a general rise in cyberattacks, which have become much easier as attackers use AI at an unprecedented pace to launch attacks faster and deploy more novel attack types.
To keep customers safe, companies need a way to detect vulnerabilities in their APIs before attackers can get to them. Savant Probe via the Bugcrowd platform can help by examining the runtime behavior of exposed API endpoints to detect real vulnerabilities and improve quality.
Savant Probe stress-tests REST APIs to identify and prioritize functionality and security flaws in minutes with no false positives. It primarily relies on a proprietary combination of mutational and generational fuzzing, in which Savant Probe runs the application and uses different techniques to inject valid, unexpected, or random data to trigger undesirable behavior. This helps uncover real vulnerabilities and issues across the following areas:
As a result, it finds 2x as many bugs as fuzzing alone (based on our internal testing) and helps teams deliver a better customer experience by highlighting performance degradations, inconsistent responses, or server crashes before they impact customers.
This stands out from traditional API security tools. Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools only validate an application against known vulnerabilities, while Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tools analyze source code without running the application, which can lead to false positives. Savant Probe gets you the best of both worlds: it looks for unknown vulnerabilities through fuzzing while testing on a running application, so you get real, reproducible vulnerabilities. But that doesn’t mean you need to abandon your other tools; it can be used with other API tools (e.g., DAST or API development platforms) to identify vulnerabilities.
Savant Probe integrates directly into your CI/CD pipeline (including GitHub/GitLab, Jenkins, and Microsoft Azure), making it seamless for teams to incorporate it into their development workflow. All developers need to do is connect Savant Probe to their repository, tell it what to test, and get the results. Plus, teams have flexibility in how frequently Savant Probe runs: it can be run either as a PR gate in your CI/CD pipeline to quickly validate the security of your latest changes and/or as an on-demand scan to thoroughly find any vulnerabilities across a group of assets.
Once Savant Probe finishes running, developers get everything they need to jump straight into remediation. Every defect includes a test case demonstrating exploitability, a prioritization score (based on common CWE and OWASP standards), and automated regression testing, so you’re focused on confirmed, reproducible vulnerabilities rather than theoretical findings. These findings can also be exported in whatever format works best; Savant Probe generates SARIF reports that can be integrated into third-party dashboards and offers an API to customize the report.
The combination of ease of use with real, validated findings helps developers trust the tool and drive adoption. Studies show that developers spend 55% of their testing time chasing false positives, which can make them more skeptical of new security tools. Since Probe only exposes real findings, they’re more likely to trust the tool’s outputs.
Companies across various industries are leaning on Savant Probe to harden and improve their API security. Here are two anonymized examples:
A French financial services company that develops Web3 infrastructure used Savant Probe to secure its APIs. They wanted to ensure their APIs were free from vulnerabilities, hardened against attacks, and reliable under stress, while also meeting regulatory compliance. They needed a solution to identify issues, minimize noise, and integrate with their delivery pipelines. When evaluating solutions, the team found the setup quick and the results noise-free. Since adopting Savant Probe, they’ve used it to identify and fix numerous vulnerabilities and prove SOC2 compliance.
A mobile gaming platform that provides millions of developers and gamers with customizable gaming options needs API security to support its global scale. They used Savant Probe to test their APIs quickly and efficiently, with zero false positives. This allows them to focus more on shipping safer products for their developers and customers, rather than running tons of manual tests. As a senior technical director of their company puts it, “Bugcrowd, especially Savant Probe, finds things that engineers cannot see and helps us find vulnerabilities before the attackers do.”
Savant Probe empowers developer teams to fortify the security and performance of their APIs without drowning in noise or straining their development teams. The result is more trustworthy, reliable APIs that keep applications secure and running.
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