White Paper API Secure

API Security For Dummies

APIs power modern applications, cloud services, and AI workloads, making them one of the most critical attack surfaces for organizations today. This API Security For Dummies eBook explains API security fundamentals, common attack vectors, API discovery, vulnerability management, continuous security testing, and runtime protection to help security and development teams build more resilient applications.

Inside the White Paper

What You Will Learn

  • The fundamentals of API security and why APIs have become a leading attack surface.
  • Common API vulnerabilities and how attackers exploit insecure APIs.
  • Best practices for API discovery, inventory management, and governance.
  • How continuous API security testing identifies vulnerabilities before they reach production.
  • The role of runtime protection in defending APIs against active threats.
  • Practical strategies for building a scalable API security program across development and production environments.

Contributing Researcher

Emily Freeman

Blog

API Runtime Protection: Blocking Attacks While the Fix Ships

API runtime protection is security that watches live API traffic in production and stops attacks as they happen. It protects APIs during the time between a vulnerability being found and the fix being deployed, and against attacks on flaws nobody has found yet.

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API Security Testing: How to Test APIs the Way Attackers Do

API security testing is the practice of probing APIs the way an attacker would, to find flaws such as broken authorization, data exposure and injection before someone exploits them. Effective API security testing runs authenticated, covers every API you have (including the ones nobody inventoried) and repeats every time an API changes.

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Automated Security for DevOps

Modern software teams can’t afford to treat security as a final step before release. In this on-demand video, learn how automated application security enables DevSecOps by integrating continuous security testing directly into CI/CD pipelines. Discover how automation helps identify vulnerabilities earlier, prioritize real risk, accelerate remediation, and deliver secure software without slowing development.

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