The USecureD tools can also be accessed by means of an application programming interface (API). The REST-based API was developed to provide the tools, besides the representation in HTML, as structured data in the description language JSON. This allows the USecureD tools to be integrated automatically into own processes and products or systems, for quality surveys or assessments. A detailed description of the programming interface is available in the form of a technical specification in the OpenAPI (https://www.openapis.org) description language: