Guide

Demystifying the OWASP API Security Top 10

Demystifying the OWASP API Security Top 10

Pages 25 Pages

This interactive guide explains the OWASP API Security Top 10 as a practical framework for teams building API-centric systems, emphasizing common root causes such as weak access control, business logic abuse, insufficient traffic management, lack of holistic visibility, and poor operational readiness. For each risk, it gives a plain-language description, how attackers exploit it, and prevention tips, covering broken object and function level authorization, broken authentication, excessive data exposure, missing rate limits and resource controls, mass assignment, security misconfiguration, injection, improper asset management (shadow, deprecated, and exposed pre-prod APIs), and insufficient logging and monitoring. It also maps how Cequence positions runtime visibility and behavioral detecti

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