Astra API Security Platform - Discover, Scan, and Secure every API at scale
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Astra API Security Platform discovers every undocumented, shadow, zombie & dormant API in your infrastructure using real-time traffic analysis and performs offensive DAST scans on the APIs with 15,000+ test cases, which go beyond just OWASP API Top 10
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Astra Security
👋 Hey PH fam, we’re excited to introduce Astra API Security Platform 🚀
👉 What it is
Astra is a purpose-built API security platform that helps teams discover, scan, and secure every API in their environment—shadow, dormant, undocumented, and everything in between.
👉 Who it’s for & use cases
Security-conscious engineering teams who need visibility into their growing API sprawl
CISOs & CXOs looking to prevent breaches and rollout delays caused by API security issues
Developers building AI agents, apps, and services who want to ensure no data leaks or auth flaws creep in
👉 Why it’s different
Unlike generic scanners, Astra is built for APIs first. It goes beyond spec checks with real-time traffic analysis and AI-powered logic testing—catching risks like BOLA, IDOR, PII exposure, and shadow APIs before attackers do.
👉 Key Features
🔍 Auto-discovers APIs with live traffic analysis
🧪 15,000+ DAST test cases (OWASP API Top 10, auth flaws, BOLA, IDOR, etc.)
🕵️ Detects zombie, shadow, orphan APIs missed in docs
🤖 AI-powered logic testing for real-world risks
📦 Integrations with AWS, GCP, Azure, Nginx, Postman & Burp Suite
🔒 Detects secret leaks & PII exposures
⚡ Supports REST, GraphQL, internal, and mobile APIs with flexible SaaS deployment
APIs are the #1 starting point for breaches today—don’t let blind spots cost you.
Check out Astra API Security Platform and secure your APIs before attackers find them. 🙌
https://www.getastra.com/api-security-platform
@abhishek_krishnan5 Excited to see the product go live on Product hunt! ❤️
@abhishek_krishnan5 congrats team
Visla
@abhishek_krishnan5 Congrats!
Astra Security
Hello everyone 👋 Ujwal here, COO at Astra.
This launch is very close to my heart. Over the last couple of years, I’ve been on countless calls with security & engineering leaders trying to make sense of their API security mess - be it zombie APIs that no one owns, undocumented endpoints suddenly going live, or AI agents that were given a little too much freedom.
What I realized is that while most teams knew they had blind spots, they didn’t have the visibility or tooling to actually surface and fix them without slowing down. That’s the gap we set out to bridge with Astra’s API Security Platform.
Astra seamlessly integrates an offensive scanner & real-time obervability. This helps to continuously discover endpoints, monitor changes, and surface risks in real time, so teams get both the speed they need and the confidence they’re not flying blind.
If you’re building APIs (I am sure you are!), I’d love for you to give it a try. And if you’ve been part of our beta, thank you-your feedback shaped what you see live today.
Happy to answer questions, hear your thoughts, or even just swap war stories about APIs gone rogue 😅
Agnes AI
Wow, love how Astra auto-discovers shadow and orphan APIs—I've lost sleep over missing endpoints before! Super curious how deep the AI logic testing goes on complex traffic.
Astra Security
@cruise_chen Thank you! 🙌 We’ve heard that pain again and again, missing endpoints are the kind of problem that only shows up when it’s already too late. That’s why auto-discovery was the very first thing we focused on.
On the AI logic side: right now, we go beyond basic input testing to simulate complex traffic flows, auth misuses, and chained conditions that often slip by in traditional scans. It’s still early, and we’re pushing hard to make the logic testing smarter with every release.
Astra Security
Hey folks 👋 I’m Shikhil, founder of Astra Security.
As a pentester, I’ve broken (and fixed) more APIs than I can count - From classic injections to wild BOLAs. Funny thing though: the most painful issues often weren’t fancy hacks, but APIs that teams didn’t even know existed 😅.
That insight pushed us to build the Astra API Security Platform, helping teams discover every API (yes, even the zombie ones 🧟) and continuously run DAST vulnerability scans on them to uncover vulnerabilities, including OWASP API Top 10 & PII leaks. The platform allows you to import your API inventory, or Astra can build it by monitoring your traffic. We've got deep integrations with Postman, AWS, GCP, Azure, Apigee, etc.
We’ve been building this for 1.5 years and are super pumped to finally share it here 🚀
Huge shoutout to the team who made it happen ❤️
— Shikhil
Incerto
Congratulations on the launch team Astra!
Excited to see this go live on Product Hunt 🚀
Astra Security
Thank you@shivapundir !
Awesome, this is something I have been looking for and I din't even knew it. Does it sit before or after API gateways like Kong? Also, can it detect the key leakages like dev/staging keys into the prod? Overall looks extremely polished tool and well thought app. Best!
Astra Security
@vatsmi Thank you so much 🙌 really glad this resonated with you!
To your question: Astra doesn’t sit before or after an API gateway like Kong. Instead, it integrates alongside your stack, hooking into your infra and services (AWS API Gateway, GCP packet mirroring, Apigee, Azure Functions, NGINX, etc.) and into observability pipelines (via OpenTelemetry). That way, we can continuously build an accurate API inventory, track changes, and surface risks in real time, no matter which gateway or mesh you’re on.
And on the key leakage front: yes, we flag sensitive information exposures. That includes API keys, tokens, and even PIIs if they’re leaking through responses or misconfigured endpoints.
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All the best, Team Astra!!
Astra Security
Thank you@swati_baruah 🙌🏻
Following Astra for a long time, happy to see this update. Congrats! Astra team and @shikhilsharma 🤩
Astra Security
Thank you so much Ankit 🙌🏻
Astra Security
@saaswarrior Thank you, Ankit. Always good to hear from you :)
🚀 Excited to see Astra API Security Platform live on Product Hunt!
APIs are at the heart of modern applications, but they’re also one of the most targeted attack surfaces. At Astra, we’ve built this platform to help businesses secure their APIs with DAST scanning, API discovery, CI/CD integration, and actionable remediation insights — all while keeping the developer experience smooth.
As someone who works closely with customers, I’ve seen firsthand how critical API security is for protecting sensitive data and ensuring trust. This platform is another big step forward in making security proactive, not reactive.
Would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or questions — happy to chat!
– Avinash | Senior AE @ Astra Security (www.getastra.com)
PopHop
that sounds promising lets goooo