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SecureNexus APIPOS
Leading Securities Firm

Trading Platform API Security for a Leading Securities Firm

Secured 3,500+ APIs across trading platforms, market data feeds, and depository integrations. Discovered rate limiting bypasses and order manipulation vulnerabilities in real-time trading APIs.

Key Impact

3,500+ APIs Secured

The Challenge

What They Were Facing

The securities firm's trading platforms, research portals, and depository integrations exposed 3,500+ APIs handling real-time market orders, portfolio data, and fund transfers. The high-frequency nature of trading APIs demanded microsecond-level performance, making traditional security testing approaches impractical. SEBI CSCRF also required comprehensive API security assessments.

Trading APIs requiring security testing without impacting sub-millisecond latency.

Rate limiting bypasses discovered in order placement APIs during internal review.

SEBI CSCRF mandating API-level security assessments for all market-facing systems.

The Solution

How We Solved It

SecureNexus APIPOS was deployed with a specialized low-latency scanning profile built for financial trading infrastructure. The platform tested all trading, portfolio, and settlement APIs against OWASP API Top 10 and SEBI CSCRF requirements without touching production performance.

Low-Latency Scan

Trading-optimized security testing

Order Integrity

Order manipulation & replay testing

SEBI Alignment

CSCRF API security compliance

Results

Measurable Impact

Quantified outcomes from this engagement.

3,500+ APIs

Trading Infrastructure Secured

12 Critical

Trading API Flaws Fixed

Zero Latency

Impact on Production

3,500+APIs Secured

All trading, research, and depository APIs assessed and continuously monitored.

12Critical Flaws Fixed

Rate limiting bypasses and order manipulation vulnerabilities fixed in trading APIs.

“Finding an API security platform that could test our trading APIs without adding latency was critical. SecureNexus discovered order manipulation vulnerabilities that could have cost us millions in market exposure.”
C

CTO

Leading Securities Firm

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