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Top Strategies for API Security
This white paper explores strategies for protecting APIs by first introducing how APIs are designed, and how similarities between web applications and APIs mark these endpoints as added targets for web attackers. We will also present the most common types of cyberattacks and conclude with a discussion on our recommended solution against API abuse.
Download NowDue to the growing popularity of APIs by developers and hackers alike, OWASP issued top 10 API security threats which are slightly different than the typical OWASP top 10 web application threats: https://owasp.org/www-project-api-security/
API security solutions should be able to monitor traffic and seamlessly discover, map and learn the different APIs, their method, input parameters, traffic pattern and what is the normal use of them. Then apply ML/AI capabilities to alert when there is an abnormal use or attack on API endpoints.
Pros: the API solution can block API requests in real-time when it’s implemented inline.
Cons: in order to minimize false positives, the API security solution should be able to learn what’s a normal use of an API endpoint is and what’s considered an anomaly and suspected attack. In order to reach that level of context and accuracy, an offline analysis should be done based on an adequate amount of API traffic data, which is typical for an API security solution that is not deployed inline.