api-security
Safeguard articles tagged "api-security" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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How an API Security Scanner Works and What to Use
An API security scanner automatically probes your endpoints for authentication, authorization, and injection flaws. Here is how they work and how to fit one into your pipeline.
The OWASP Top 10 API Security Risks, Explained
The OWASP Top 10 API Security Risks reorder the classic web vulnerability list around how APIs actually get broken — object-level authorization failures beat injection as the most common real-world root cause.
API Security: A Clear Definition and What It Covers
The API security definition is straightforward: protecting the APIs that expose your data and logic from misuse, abuse, and unauthorized access. What that covers in practice is broader than most teams assume.
Webhooks Security: A Practical Checklist
Webhooks security is easy to get wrong because the endpoint has to trust an unauthenticated inbound request by default — here's the checklist that closes the common gaps.
Best DAST Tools in 2026: Web, API, and CI/CD Scanning Compared
An honest guide to the best DAST tools in 2026 — from OWASP ZAP and Burp Suite to Invicti, StackHawk, and Escape — with clear guidance on which fits web apps, APIs, and CI/CD-native pipelines, and where DAST stops and supply chain security begins.
OWASP API Security Top 10 risks explained
The OWASP API Security Top 10 ranks BOLA, broken auth, SSRF, and 7 more API risks behind breaches like Optus and T-Mobile — explained with real incidents.
SFMC API Security: How to Integrate Marketing Cloud Safely
A security-focused guide to the Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) API: OAuth scopes, token handling, least-privilege packages, and protecting subscriber data.
Rate Limiting Vulnerability: Why Missing Limits Are an OWASP Risk
A rate limiting vulnerability lets attackers hammer your endpoints unchecked, enabling brute force, credential stuffing, and resource exhaustion. Here is how to find and fix it.
API Security Posture Management, Explained
API security posture management inventories every API you actually have, then continuously checks it against the rules you meant to enforce.
How to secure a REST API
REST API breaches from T-Mobile to Optus trace to a handful of recurring mistakes. Here's how to fix authorization, auth, injection, and rate limiting.
Snyk DAST: What Snyk API & Web Offers for Dynamic Testing
A factual look at Snyk DAST — how Snyk API & Web fits dynamic application security testing into a developer-first platform, what it covers, and how to weigh it against alternatives.
BOLA: Broken Object Level Authorization, Explained
A bola vulnerability lets one authenticated user reach another user's data just by changing an ID in a request — no exploit code required, which is exactly why scanners miss it so often.
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