🔌 API Security

APIs expose data and actions. Strong identity, authorization, validation, and monitoring controls make that exposure deliberate and measurable.

Topics

• REST API design
• HTTP methods and status codes
• JSON validation and schema enforcement
• Authentication and token handling
• JWT design and common failure modes
• Authorization and object-level access control
• IDOR and broken object-level authorization (BOLA)
• Rate limiting and abuse prevention
• API enumeration and inventory
• OWASP API Security Top 10