This whitepaper explains how the MITRE ATT&CK framework can be applied to API security by mapping common API attack behaviors to known adversary tactics and techniques. Although no API-specific ATT&CK matrix exists, attackers routinely use techniques such as reconnaissance, credential abuse, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and data exfiltration when targeting APIs. The paper demonstrates how OWASP API Top 10 issues like broken object level authorization map to multiple ATT&CK tactics across an attack lifecycle, using real-world breach scenarios. By aligning API threats with ATT&CK, organizations gain a shared language for detection, response, and measurement, improve threat visibility, prioritize defenses, and better integrate API security into existing security operations and inci

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