Getting Started with API Security Best Practices

The 2023 OWASP API Security Top 10 keeps BOLA and Broken Authentication on top while adding SSRF, unrestricted resource consumption, and unsafe API consumption; industry pros react.

SaaS providers face rising API and multi-tenant threats; regular pentesting aligned to OWASP and PTES across the SDLC reduces breach risk and supports SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and HIPAA.

APIs expose backend logic and sensitive data directly; targeted API security testing uncovers broken authentication, excessive data exposure, and access control flaws that traditional pentests miss.

Podcast recap with Checkmarx CTO Maty Siman on maturing application security: what shift left really means as open source, APIs, and component-based development expand the modern attack surface.

Breaks down OWASP Top 10 2017 candidate A7, Insufficient Attack Protection, urging apps to detect, block, log, and respond to automated attacks rather than only validating input.

OpenSAMM, OWASP's free maturity framework, splits app security into four business functions—Governance, Construction, Verification, Deployment—letting organizations score each app in under an hour.