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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2023
Cequence Security, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abraham Jeevagunta, San Jose, CA (US);
Shreyans Mehta, Los Altos, CA (US);
Cequence Security, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments facilitate uncovering an Application Programming Interface (API) attack surface for an organization. In some examples, an apparatus comprises storage media, a processing system, and program instructions stored on the storage media. The apparatus processes Domain Name System (DNS) data to determine a set of possible API servers. The apparatus determines a set of possible Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) paths that may lead to one or more actual API endpoints. The apparatus joins the set of possible API servers with the set of possible URI paths to generate a set of possible API Uniform Resource Locators (URLs). The apparatus performs an API-specific crawl of the set of possible API URLs by submitting API requests to the set of possible API URLs and analyzing responses to determine the one or more actual API endpoints and one or more actual API servers of the set of possible API servers.