CyanoRisk Capability

Know Every API. Trust Every Transaction.

CyanoRisk API Security Posture Management discovers, inventories, classifies, and continuously assesses every REST, GraphQL, gRPC and SOAP API — connecting each to its applications, data, identities, and business services.

Modern enterprises expose thousands of APIs across applications, mobile, partners, cloud, and AI. CyanoRisk finds the shadow, zombie, and deprecated ones too, and scores every API against the OWASP API Top 10.

API Knowledge Graph

Every API Is a Web of Trust and Risk

An API is never just an endpoint — it is the seam between an application, its data, its identities, and a business service. CyanoRisk keeps that whole web connected.

API Knowledge Graph · payments-api /v2
API context
OWASP API findings5
Sensitive fields exposed34
Consumers12
AuthenticationOAUTH2
ExposureINTERNET-FACING

Product Overview

From API Inventory to API Risk Intelligence

The Risk Fabric

API Risk Intelligence Built Into the Digital Risk Fabric

CyanoRisk connects every API with its applications, data, identities, gateways, threats, and business services.

An API becomes trustworthy when its data, auth, exposure, and business impact are all known.

The Problem

Why API Risk Hides in Plain Sight

APIClassifyAssessDataBusiness ImpactAction

Key Capabilities

Everything Needed to Govern API Risk at Enterprise Scale

Sixteen capabilities, one API graph: every endpoint discovered, classified, assessed, and protected.

How It Works

Seven Steps From API Discovery to Governed Trust

Visual Intelligence

The API Risk Pipeline

From the first client call to the executive dashboard — every hop assessed against the OWASP API Top 10, every sensitive field traced to a business service.

API Risk Pipeline · payments-api
ClientAPI GatewayAPIApplicationDatabaseSensitive DataBusiness ServiceDashboard
Broken Object-Level AuthBroken Function AuthBroken AuthenticationMass AssignmentRate-Limit GapInjectionSensitive Data ExposureBusiness Logic AbuseShadow APIDeprecated APIOWASP API Top 10Threat Intel
CyanoRisk API Risk Engine
Discover · Assess · Protect
OWASP × DATA × BUSINESS → 0–100
API Risk Score0–100 · banded
OWASP Findings312
Sensitive Exposure640 APIs
Auth Gap74 unauth
Rate-Limit Gap128
Shadow APIs168
Remediation Ticketauto-routed
Executive Viewboard-ready

Attack vs Defense

How an API Breach Happens — and How CyanoRisk Stops It

The most common API breach needs no exploit — just an unguarded object reference. Here is the chain, and where CyanoRisk breaks it.

How the attack unfolds

  1. An attacker enumerates the internet-facing APIs and finds an undocumented /v2 endpoint.
  2. A request to /orders/{id} returns another customer’s order — broken object-level authorization (OWASP API A01).
  3. With no rate limiting, the attacker scripts the ID range and harvests thousands of records.
  4. Cardholder and contact data is exfiltrated to an external host.
  5. The loss surfaces weeks later as fraud, breach notification, and regulatory exposure.

How CyanoRisk protects

  1. CyanoRisk discovers the /v2 endpoint — including shadow and zombie APIs — with its owner and gateway.
  2. It classifies the response as PCI cardholder data and flags the API as sensitive and internet-facing.
  3. The assessment detects the missing object-level authorization and absent rate limit before release.
  4. Object-level auth and rate limiting are enforced at the gateway; the finding routes to the API platform team with an SLA.
  5. Evidence is captured, the business service is marked contained, and the executive dashboard reflects reduced risk.

Business Outcomes

What Changes When Every API Is Known

Built for the Whole Room

One API Graph, a Screen for Every Role

“Everyone sees the same API graph. Nobody sees the same screen.

Related CyanoRisk Capabilities

API Intelligence Compounds With the Rest of the Fabric

Trust Every API You Expose

CyanoRisk helps organizations discover, classify, assess, and protect every API — connecting endpoints, data, identities, gateways, threats, and business services into one API risk posture view.