April 29, 2025
ThreatNG's New SwaggerHub Discovery: Revolutionizing API Security
ThreatNG is excited to announce its latest enhancement: SwaggerHub Discovery. This new capability significantly strengthens ThreatNG's Domain Intelligence and Domain Overview capabilities, providing a crucial layer of visibility into an organization's API infrastructure. As APIs become increasingly essential for data exchange and functionality, this addition is vital for External Attack Surface Management (EASM), Digital Risk Protection (DRP), and Security Ratings solutions.
ThreatNG's SwaggerHub Discovery feature is a game-changer for organizations seeking to secure their API ecosystem. SwaggerHub is a widely used platform for designing, building, and documenting APIs, containing a wealth of information about an organization's API infrastructure. ThreatNG's new capability discovers all organization-related SwaggerHub instances, providing a centralized view of API documentation. This enables security teams to gain a comprehensive understanding of API functionality, identify potential vulnerabilities, and assess the organization's overall security posture.
This capability is a vital addition to ThreatNG's Domain Intelligence / Domain Overview capabilities and its overall external attack surface management, digital risk protection, and security ratings solution for several reasons:
Enhanced API Attack Surface Visibility: By discovering SwaggerHub instances, ThreatNG significantly improves an organization's visibility of its API attack surface. This is critical because APIs are used for data exchange and functionality, and any vulnerability can have widespread consequences.
Improved Vulnerability Management and Threat Detection: SwaggerHub often contains detailed information about API structure and functionality, which can be used to identify potential weaknesses and attack vectors. ThreatNG's discovery of these instances enables more effective vulnerability management and threat detection related to APIs.
Streamlined Security Governance and Compliance: ThreatNG's SwaggerHub discovery streamlines security governance and compliance efforts by providing a centralized inventory of API documentation, facilitating seamless management of API assets.
Comprehensive API Inventory for EASM: ThreatNG's ability to discover SwaggerHub instances allows for a more complete inventory of an organization's external-facing APIs. This is crucial for EASM as it ensures that security teams are aware of all potential entry points and can effectively monitor and manage them.
Proactive Vulnerability Identification: By identifying SwaggerHub instances, ThreatNG facilitates the proactive identification of API vulnerabilities. SwaggerHub often contains detailed API specifications that security teams can use to analyze the API structure, authentication mechanisms, and data handling, thereby discovering potential weaknesses before attackers can exploit them.
Improved Risk Prioritization: ThreatNG can correlate information from SwaggerHub with other external attack surface data to assess the potential impact of API vulnerabilities, allowing security teams to focus on the most critical risks first.
Digital Risk Protection (DRP): ThreatNG's SwaggerHub discovery helps prevent API abuse by providing insights into how APIs are intended to be used, enabling security teams to detect and block malicious or unauthorized API activity. It also helps identify APIs that handle sensitive data, allowing the prioritization of monitoring and security measures.
Brand Protection: By discovering and securing APIs through SwaggerHub analysis, ThreatNG helps reduce the risk of service disruptions and data breaches that could damage an organization's reputation and brand. It can also help detect and prevent brand impersonation through APIs.
Due Diligence: ThreatNG's SwaggerHub discovery provides valuable insights into the security posture of a target company's APIs, which is crucial for assessing potential risks and liabilities associated with mergers, acquisitions, or partnerships.
Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM): ThreatNG's SwaggerHub discovery facilitates a comprehensive assessment of vendor API security, monitors vendor API changes, and helps enforce API security policies across third-party integrations.
Cloud and SaaS Exposure Management: ThreatNG enhances visibility into an organization's cloud-based APIs and improves the security of SaaS integrations by discovering SwaggerHub instances and identifying "shadow APIs."
Who is this important to, and why should existing users log in to check out this new capability?
This new capability is essential to:
Security Professionals: It provides a centralized view of API documentation, enabling them to understand API functionality, identify potential vulnerabilities, and assess the organization's overall security posture.
External Attack Surface Management (EASM) Teams: This enables a more comprehensive inventory of an organization's external-facing APIs, ensuring that security teams are aware of all potential entry points.
Digital Risk Protection (DRP) Teams: They help prevent API abuse, identify APIs handling sensitive data, and understand API functionality for effective threat modeling.
Brand Protection Teams: It reduces the risk of service disruptions and data breaches and helps prevent brand impersonation through APIs.
Due Diligence Teams: It provides insights into the security posture of a target company's APIs, which is crucial for assessing potential risks and liabilities.
Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) Teams: They facilitate a comprehensive assessment of vendor API security and help enforce API security policies across third-party integrations.
Cloud and SaaS Security Teams: It enhances visibility into cloud-based APIs and improves the security of SaaS integrations.
Existing users should log in to check out this new capability against:
Themselves: To gain a better understanding of their API security posture and identify potential vulnerabilities.
Third Parties: To assess the security of vendor APIs and manage third-party risks.
Existing Client Organizations: To provide enhanced security assessments and protect their clients' data and systems.
Prospects: To demonstrate the value of ThreatNG's comprehensive security solutions and win new business.
By proactively discovering and managing SwaggerHub instances, organizations can mitigate the risks associated with unknown and unmanaged APIs, prevent data breaches, and ensure the security and reliability of their digital ecosystem.
