What is API Security?
API Security: API security is the practice of protecting your application programming interfaces from attacks, misuse, and data exposure through authentication, authorization, rate limiting, input validation, and monitoring.
API Security Explained in Detail
APIs power mobile apps, SaaS integrations, microservices, and IoT devices. Attackers know this. API attacks have surged over 400 percent in recent years because APIs often expose more data and functionality than intended.
OWASP API Security Top 10
- Broken Object Level Authorisation (BOLA): The top API vulnerability. Users access data they should not see.
- Broken Authentication: Weak or missing authentication on API endpoints.
- Excessive Data Exposure: APIs return more data than the client needs.
- Lack of Rate Limiting: Enables brute force and denial-of-service attacks.
- Mass Assignment: Accepting unintended parameters that modify data.
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