---
id: 1204
title: "API Pentesting and Best Practices"
source_domain: hackerone.com
source_url: "https://www.hackerone.com/blog/penetration-testing-api"
published_at: "2025-07-29 17:14"
tags: ["api-security", "penetration-testing", "ptaas", "ptes", "owasp-api-top-10", "object-level-authorization"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/1204"
lang: en
---

# API Pentesting and Best Practices

## Summary

APIs have become prime attack targets. HackerOne's community-driven PTaaS applies PTES, OWASP API Top 10, and CIS Controls to find API-specific flaws like broken object-level authorization.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** hackerone.com
- **Published:** 2025-07-29 17:14
- **Original:** https://www.hackerone.com/blog/penetration-testing-api
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/1204