OWASP API Security Top 10 Risks – Ultimate Guide

Dive deep into OWASP Top 10 API Security Risks, How they occur, Practical Demos, their Impacts and Mitigation Strategies

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What Will I Learn?

• What are APIs and Why and Where they are used?
• How API Security risks are different from Web Application Security risks?
• Common API security risks and ways to mitigate
• Application Security Fundamentals
• Key strategies for secure API design, including access control, authentication, and rate limiting.
• Best practices for API development and security testing.
• What is OWASP? and What is OWASP API Top 10 Project
• Comparison - OWASP API Top 10 Risks 1029 Vs. 2023
• OWASP API Top 10 Risks 2023 - What is each risk and how it occurs
• OWASP API Top 10 Risks 2023 - Real-World Examples and mitigation strategies for each risk
• How to identify and prevent API attacks like improper asset management, and broken object-level authorization.
• How to effectively secure APIs by mitigating security risks and vulnerabilities.

Requirements

• Basic understanding of what are APIs.
• Familiarity with web development and HTTP-based communication.
• No prior knowledge of API security is required, though a general understanding of web security concepts will be beneficial.

Target audience

• Developers building or maintaining APIs who want to secure them from common vulnerabilities.
• Software architects looking to incorporate security best practices into their API designs.
• Security professionals focused on assessing and mitigating API security risks.
• DevOps engineers who want to ensure API integrity in deployment and production environments.
• Anyone interested in learning about API security and OWASP's top security recommendations for modern APIs.
• Penetration testers looking for application security risks beyond web pages.
• CISOs and CTOs leading the company's application security landscape focus on the new attack surface, APIs