Guide to Getting Started with API Security

As critical building blocks of modern applications, it’s clear that APIs are here to stay. As one of the most appealing attacker targets and fastest-growing facets of your attack surface, it’s also clear that APIs need protection.

An API security program should include strategies, protocols, and tools to protect application programming interfaces (APIs) from unauthorized access, misuse, or malicious attacks, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the data they handle and the services they enable.

In this eBook, you’ll learn:

• How to discover and document internally and externally facing APIs
• How to protect APIs
• How to measure the success and report the effectiveness of your API security program