Highlights:

  • The new version is intended to help industry executives “shift left” further to prevent vulnerabilities from reaching production, innovate more rapidly, and comply with evolving regulatory requirements.
  • According to the company, the service enables every API to be validated, integrates into the entire software development lifecycle, and provides best-in-class usability to empower developers.

Noname Security, a startup specializing in enterprise application programming security, has announced the general availability of its Active Testing V2 service, which enables organizations to “leave no API untested.”

Active Testing is reportedly an advanced, comprehensive, and user-friendly application programming interface security testing solution. The new version is intended to help industry executives “shift left” further to prevent vulnerabilities from reaching production, innovate more rapidly, and comply with evolving regulatory requirements. Shift Left is a software development methodology incorporating tasks like testing and quality assurance early in the project’s life cycle.

According to Noname Security, most APIs are not evaluated for security before being deployed to production since typical testing tools and procedures are not designed to assess API security, leaving them vulnerable. The problems include that tools frequently do not comprehend the complex business logic of APIs, which means that they do not recognize many APIs.

Active Testing V2 is intended to combat these obstacles. According to the company, the service enables every API to be validated, integrates into the entire software development lifecycle, and provides best-in-class usability to empower developers. The service integrates API security into the application development process, including continuous integration/continuous deployment and static or dynamic API specification analysis.

Noname’s Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Shay Levi said, “Testing the security of APIs in development makes good financial sense. Fixing issues earlier in an API’s lifecycle can reduce remediation costs by 10 to 100 times.”

Levi added that due to the rising costs of rewriting code, regulatory penalties, delays in releasing new products, brand impacts, and decreases in shareholder value following intrusions, businesses must actively address API security in development.

Noname Security made news last in March when it released several new API security platform capabilities. The release included discovery, runtime protection, posture management, and testing and deployment before production.