Application Security

API Gateway Security acts as a centralized, front-line defense for microservices, providing essential protection such as authentication (OAuth/JWT), authorization, rate limiting, and threat protection against attacks like DDoS and SQL injection. It acts as a unified entry point.

API Posture Management (APM) is a security discipline that provides continuous visibility, risk assessment, and governance for an organization's entire API ecosystem. It identifies shadow/zombie APIs, misconfigurations, and data exposure risks, helping to ensure compliance.

An API security checklist is a structured set of guidelines and best practices designed to protect APIs from threats and vulnerabilities.

API Security Management is the practice of discovering, monitoring, and protecting Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) throughout their entire lifecycle. Because APIs serve as direct windows into backend data and application logic, securing them requires gateway mediation, runtime threat detection, and continuous testing.

API security solutions protect, detect, and remediate risks across the entire API lifecycle (from design to production) using specialized tools for discovery, runtime protection, and testing. Leading solutions like Radware, Akamai, and Salt Security can block OWASP Top 10 threats and stop behavioral attacks.

API security standards focus on protecting data, ensuring authorization, and preventing abuse through protocols like OAuth 2.0/2.1 for authorization, OpenID Connect (OIDC) for authentication, and JSON Web Tokens (JWT). Essential practices include enforcing HTTPS (TLS 1.2+) and comprehensive logging.

API security testing is the assessment of application programming interfaces (APIs) to identify vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers. API security testing focuses on examining the endpoints, data exchange, authentication mechanisms, and business logic unique to APIs.

Application programming interface (API) security is a series of strategies and solutions focused on understanding and mitigating the unique vulnerabilities and attacks that target APIs.