---
id: 6101
title: "Best Practices for API Security That Reduce Real Abuse"
source_domain: bugbunny.ai
source_url: "https://bugbunny.ai/blog/best-practices-for-api-security"
published_at: "2026-06-17T07:00:00Z"
tags: ["appsec", "api-security", "best-practices", "authorization", "rate-limiting", "token-security"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/6101"
lang: en
---

# Best Practices for API Security That Reduce Real Abuse

## Summary

Practical API security guide: classify endpoints by sensitivity, enforce object-level authorization and strict token validation, and tie rate limits to accounts, tenants and costly actions—not IPs.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** bugbunny.ai
- **Published:** 2026-06-17T07:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://bugbunny.ai/blog/best-practices-for-api-security
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/6101
