API Exposure Validation
Reconnaissance
Map every API
Exploitation
Run real attacks
Validation
Prove exposure

Continuous Coverage
Quarterly tests leave gaps
Between reports, new and changed endpoints go live untested. Attackers don’t wait for your reporting cycle, and neither should validation.
Attackers map continuously
What an adversary would map in weeks, Ares maps continuously, tied to data sensitivity and compliance exposure, with no manual inventory.
Proof, not a backlog
Ares validates real exploit paths as your environment changes, so teams fix what is actually exploitable first, with evidence they can verify.

Attack Surface Mapping
Documented, undocumented & shadow endpoints
Auto-registered as live testing targets
Mapped to data sensitivity & compliance exposure
Discovered API Inventory
Live
/v2/payments
Documented
/internal/users
Undocumented
/legacy/export
Shadow
/partner/webhooks
Documented
/debug/config
Shadow

The Kill Chain, Automated
01
Reconnaissance
Ares hunts external and internal environments to surface every API and registers each as a live target, continuously, not once a quarter.
02
Exploitation
She chains vulnerabilities like an adversary: a BOLA flaw into credential theft into lateral movement, running thousands of exploit paths in parallel.
03
Validation
Every finding is confirmed through actual exploitation, with full request and response evidence and a visual map of the complete kill chain.

OWASP API Security Top 10
API1
Broken Object Level Authorization
API2
Broken Authentication
API3
Broken Object Property Level Authorization
API4
Unrestricted Resource Consumption
API5
Broken Function Level Authorization
API6
Unrestricted Access to Sensitive Business Flows
API7
Server-Side Request Forgery
API8
Security Misconfiguration
API9
Improper Inventory Management
API10
Unsafe Consumption of APIs

Full-Access Red Teaming
Real authentication methods
Test unauthenticated and credentialed flows with Bearer tokens, API keys, and user credentials, exactly as a real attacker would use them.
On-prem Docker agent
A lightweight on-prem agent gives Ares secure access to private networks, exposing internal APIs and attack paths traditional pentests ignore.
No visibility gaps
Internal and external, authenticated and anonymous: continuous, adversary-accurate testing at scale across your entire API surface.

Proof, Not Guesswork
Routes directly into
Jira
GitHub
GitLab
Vulnerability identified
BOLA on /v2/payments
Exploit executed
Object ID enumeration
Request / response captured
Full proof attached
Attack map generated
Full kill chain visualized
Routed to your workflow
Ticket created automatically

Built to Breach
Attack chains, not alerts
Ares doesn’t stop at a finding. She strings vulnerabilities together the way a real adversary does, chaining a BOLA flaw into credential theft, then into lateral movement, so you see the full kill chain, every request and pivot, as it would play out in a breach.
Exploitation in minutes, not weeks
A human pentester averages two to three vulnerabilities confirmed per day. Ares runs thousands of exploit paths in parallel across your entire API surface, collapsing dwell time between push and proof-of-exploit from a quarterly window to a single build cycle.
Adversary-grade reasoning
Dagger v1 (Ares’s 14-billion-parameter offensive security model) was trained on real exploit chains, not CVE summaries or scanner output. She reasons about business logic, authentication flows, and object relationships the way an attacker does.
Between commits, not quarters
Because testing is continuous and always-on, exposure is validated as code ships. New and changed endpoints are exercised as they appear, not months later in the next scheduled engagement.
Measurable Security Returns
Manual testing hours eliminated
Continuous automated exploitation replaces the weeks of human effort a traditional engagement demands: reclaimed for higher-value security work.
Exposure windows reduced
Real exploit paths are validated as your environment changes, collapsing the gap between when exposure appears and when it’s proven and fixed.
Auditable evidence, automated output
Every result is backed by verifiable request/response proof and auto-generated remediation outputs, with full auditability and no extra reporting overhead.
Questions? Answers!
