API Security Best Practices

A whitepaper by Salt Security

The landscape of APIs has evolved substantially over the years to account for different business cases and consumption models. The broad landscape of API design patterns and API consumer types complicates security requirements for organizations. This reality makes arriving at sets of best practices challenging since it must be expansive and inclusive of many traditional security practices yet tailored for API use cases. Salt Security has compiled this list of API security best practices based on field experience and customer feedback.

Explore the whitepaper to find out top recommendations on:

• Secure design and development
• API documentation
• API discovery and cataloging
• Security testing
• Front-end security
• Logging and monitoring
• API mediation and architecture
• Network security
• Data security
• Authentication and authorization
• Runtime protection
• Security operations

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Salt Security protects the APIs that form the core of every modern application. Founded in 2016, Salt Security is the pioneer in API security. Its API Protection Platform is the industry’s first patented solution to prevent the next generation of API attacks, using machine learning and AI to automatically and continuously identify and protect APIs. Only Salt Security has the ability to correlate activities across millions of APIs and users over time and provide real-time analysis of all that data. Deployed in minutes, the Salt Security platform learns the granular behaviour of a company’s APIs and requires no configuration or customization to pinpoint and block API attackers.

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