API Penetration Testing · Cambridge
API Penetration Testing in Cambridge
API penetration testing for Cambridge organisations, where the failures are almost always about authorisation rather than authentication. Signing in works correctly; what breaks is one authenticated user reaching another's records by changing an identifier — and no automated scanner finds that, because it has no way of knowing who should see what.
Why this comes up
The problem
Changing an identifier in a request returns another customer's data to an authenticated user.
What you get
What we deliver
- Object-level authorisation tested with multiple accounts and real identifiers
- Function-level access checked, since privileged endpoints are frequently unprotected
- Documentation used to find endpoints, and undocumented ones sought separately
- Mass assignment probed, as APIs often accept fields they should ignore
- Rate limiting and resource consumption assessed at the endpoint level
- Findings demonstrated with reproducible requests rather than described abstractly
Want this scoped for your business in Cambridge?
Thirty minutes, no charge, no sales script. You leave with a written summary of what api penetration testing would actually involve — whether or not you use us.
Working in Cambridge
East of England
Cambridge has the densest deep-tech and biotech cluster in the country, so briefs here are frequently technical from the first conversation and the interesting problems are rarely the obvious ones.
Deep-tech and biotech clients bring genuinely technical briefs, often involving data pipelines, instrumentation or research tooling.
Sectors we work with in Cambridge
- Technology
- Life Sciences
- Research
- Higher Education
- Biotech
What we work with
Technologies and platforms
- Burp Suite
- Postman
- OWASP API Top 10
- REST and GraphQL
Who we work with
Industries we serve
- SaaS businesses
- Financial services
- Healthcare
- Retail
- Technology companies
Why us
Why Cambridge businesses choose Asionis
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise
How we work
- Step 1
Free consultation
A 30-minute call to understand the problem. You keep the written summary either way.
- Step 2
Proposal
Scope, timeline and a fixed price, in writing, before anything starts.
- Step 3
Build
Short cycles with regular check-ins, so you see progress rather than hear about it.
- Step 4
Launch and support
We handle the go-live and stay available afterwards.
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API Penetration Testing in Cambridge — common questions
- Why can scanners not find these issues?
- Because they require knowing the intended rules. A tool sees a request succeed and cannot tell whether that user was entitled to the record returned, so authorisation flaws need a tester with two accounts and an understanding of what each should reach.
- What is mass assignment?
- An endpoint accepting fields it should not. A profile update that quietly honours a role or account-status field lets a user grant themselves privileges through an ordinary request, and it is common in APIs that bind request bodies directly to models.
- Should undocumented endpoints be tested?
- Particularly those. Documentation describes the intended surface; older versions, internal endpoints and routes left from previous features frequently remain reachable and unprotected, and they are exactly what an attacker enumerating your API will find.
- How should findings be delivered?
- As requests your developers can replay. An abstract description of an authorisation flaw invites disagreement about severity, whereas a reproducible request returning data the account should not see is unambiguous and considerably faster to act on — and it gives the team a way to confirm the fix themselves.
- Do you work with businesses across Cambridgeshire?
- Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout East of England, including Cambridge and the surrounding Cambridgeshire area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
- What kind of Cambridge businesses do you usually work with?
- Deep-tech and biotech clients bring genuinely technical briefs, often involving data pipelines, instrumentation or research tooling. Beyond that we work across Technology, Life Sciences, Research, Higher Education and Biotech.
- Do you cover the areas around Cambridge?
- Yes — we work throughout East of England, including Norwich, Milton Keynes, London, Northampton. Cambridge is an urban area of roughly 150,000+, and we take on work across the wider Cambridgeshire region rather than the city boundary alone.
Talk to us about API Penetration Testing in Cambridge
A 30-minute call with someone who would actually work on it. No sales script, no obligation.
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise