Battle card · vs DAST tools, runtime API platforms · v2
BugDazz API Scanner
DAST tools test what's deployed. Runtime API platforms watch what's running in prod. BugDazz API Scanner tests what's about to ship: every PR, every schema change, every new endpoint, inside your CI, inside your VPC. OWASP API Top 10 enforced before the IDOR ever sees a customer ID.
Top 3 features
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Three triggers, one engine
DAST runs on nightly cron against staging; runtime tools wait until prod. BugDazz fires on CI commit + scheduled + on-demand from the same engine. Discovery: "When in the SDLC are your API changes first tested for OWASP API Top 10?"
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On-prem container, traffic stays in VPC
SaaS API scanners pipe your spec and recorded traffic to their cloud. BugDazz runs a container in your VPC; nothing leaves except finding metadata. Trap: "Has your data-residency policy reviewed your current scanner's outbound flows?"
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Schema-aware, multi-role auth
DAST runs unauthenticated against deployed binaries; we ingest OpenAPI 3.x or GraphQL introspection and test as customer admin, end-user, tenant A, tenant B. Discovery: "How is your current tool exercising BOLA across tenant boundaries?"
Top 3 benefits
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Thirty minutes from container pull to first scan
API security platforms bill weeks of professional services to onboard. BugDazz: docker pull, point at staging URL, scan. Redirect: "No PS bill, no quarterly checkpoint with a CSM. Your team is already in CI by lunch."
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Per-release compliance evidence
Runtime tools log incidents; auditors want preventative controls. BugDazz ships per-release PDF + JSON evidence pack mapped to SOC 2 CC7.1, PCI DSS 6.2.4, ISO A.14.2.5, HIPAA, DPDP. Discovery: "How are you generating change-management evidence between pentest cycles?"
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Webhooks into existing workflow
Standalone dashboards add a tool to learn; BugDazz pushes findings to Jenkins, ServiceNow, Jira via webhook. Redirect: "Your team already lives in Jira. Findings should land there, not in another tab."
If they say…
“"We already use a DAST tool, doesn't it do this?"”
→ DAST is solid for what it does, scheduled checks against deployed binaries. Two gaps worth surfacing with your team. First, it isn't schema-aware, so authentication, role boundaries, and tenant isolation get partial coverage at best. BOLA and BFLA findings rarely surface. Second, it runs post-deploy, not pre-merge. The IDOR ships, then gets flagged. BugDazz runs in CI on schema diff, before the endpoint goes live. Different problem, different tool. Most customers run both, complementary not competitive.
“"We have a runtime API security platform, this is the same thing."”
→ Runtime platforms catch attacks against production, important and complementary. The structural gap is reactive vs preventative. SOC 2 CC7.1 wants change-management controls before deploy; runtime tools log after the fact. BugDazz gives the auditor the per-release evidence pack (what changed, what was tested, what was confirmed clean) for every shipped API change. Most customers we win run both: BugDazz for the gate, runtime for the trap. Different evidence layer for different control objective.
“"We have a manual API pentest twice a year, that's our policy."”
→ Manual pentest catches business-logic chains nothing automated will. Keep it. The 360 days between pentests are where the iterative coverage is missing, new endpoints, modified auth, contract drift. BugDazz fills that window with deterministic Top 10 coverage on every change. Your manual team gets a cleaner attack surface to dig into when they show up, same auditor evidence, more frequent control point. Manual stays where it adds value, the iterative cases come off the manual team's plate.
“"We don't want findings touching production traffic."”
→ Reasonable. Two safeguards. First, network-only impact, no agents on production hosts, no live process injection. Second, per-endpoint exclude list lets you carve out anything sensitive (payment processors, third-party APIs, regulated PII routes). Default mode is read-only across all observed routes. Several customers run it in production read-only for a quarter before turning on write-tests in staging. Happy to share the deployment guide and the read-only mode spec for your security architect to review.
Buyer FAQ
How does it integrate with our CI?
GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins. Container pull plus 20 to 30 lines of YAML in the pipeline. Sample workflows in the docs.
What runs on our side vs yours?
Scanner container runs in your runner. Finding metadata (endpoint, class, severity, fix hash) streams to BugDazz control plane. Payload data never leaves your VPC. SOC 2 attestation covers the control plane only.
How are false positives handled vs DAST?
Confirmed-only mode is default. Each finding ships with request, response, and a curl reproducer the engineer can rerun locally. The confirmation step strips the noise DAST tools push to Jira.
REST plus GraphQL on one subscription?
Yes. Per-service licensing, not per-protocol. Schema pulled from introspection for GraphQL. Mutation chains tested against role boundaries.
SOC 2 evidence path?
Per-release evidence pack ships as PDF and JSON. Maps to CC7.1 Change Management and CC8.1 Vulnerability Management. Auditor read-only seat available.
Pricing vs runtime API platforms?
Per-service tier, monthly. Buy and scan the same day, no professional services bill. Runtime platforms typically run six-figure ACV with multi-week onboarding.
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