Scanner API integration: design the workflow before the endpoint
A practical architecture for scan jobs, evidence, retries, and policy decisions—without turning uncertainty into a green check.
The Scan Log / Category
API engineering
Design the interface around the decision. These guides cover scanner integration and authorized API security testing: two related phrases with very different meanings. A scanner API sends an object to an inspection workflow; an API scanner assesses an application interface.
Start with the integration guide when you need to model jobs, handle retries, or preserve evidence from several inspection tools. Start with the API security checklist when your question is about endpoint inventory, identities, object permissions, and a controlled retest process. Keeping those jobs separate makes both your architecture and your terminology easier to understand.
Across this collection, the recurring design principle is to keep acceptance, completion, and approval distinct. A request arriving successfully is not the same thing as an inspection finishing, and a finished test does not decide the product policy by itself. Use the articles as working checklists, then adapt the suggested structures to the actual provider contract or authorized test environment. The developer playbook provides a shared result model to make those decisions concrete.
An API security scanning checklist built around authorization
Move beyond endpoint counts with a scoped test plan for identities, object ownership, resource limits, and reproducible fixes.