A leading SASE/SSE vendor needed to secure its APIs without slowing down development or compromising its air-gapped production environment. Its rapidly changing API landscape made periodic and manual testing insufficient, while cloud-only security tools could not meet its production data-boundary requirements. AppSentinels enabled continuous API security across both UAT and production, with the same detection logic and policies across deployment models.
Key Challenges
- Fast-moving APIs: Continuous releases made manual and periodic security reviews quickly outdated.
- Air-gapped production: Production data, traffic, and telemetry could not leave the environment.
- Business logic risks: Authorization and multi-step workflow flaws were difficult to detect with schema- and signature-based tools.
- Critical path constraints: Inline security controls risked adding latency or impacting production availability.
The AppSentinels Solution
- Discovery & Posture: Continuously discovered APIs across UAT and production, including shadow and undocumented endpoints, while mapping sensitive data flows.
- Automated Testing: Tested real business workflows using observed traffic, including multi-step sequences and authorization abuse.
- Runtime Monitoring: Monitored production traffic out of band, detecting abuse in real time without adding latency to API requests.
- Dual Deployment: Deployed as SaaS in UAT and fully air-gapped on-premises in production, while maintaining consistent policies and detection logic.
Business Impact
- Continuous API coverage across UAT and production.
- Runtime visibility at scale without adding production latency.
- Complete air-gapped coverage with zero production data leaving the environment.
- Faster security feedback through continuous, automated testing.
- Deeper business logic coverage beyond schema and signature-based checks.
