API security is essential for modern businesses to ensure the safety of sensitive data. With the increasing threat of API attackers, it's crucial to implement steps to protecting your data and maintain the integrity of your systems.
5 Best Practices To Make Your API More Protected Against Attackers.pdf
1. 5 BEST PRACTICES TO
Make Your API
More Protected
Against Attackers
2. API security is essential for modern
businesses to ensure the safety of sensitive
data. With the increasing
threat of API attackers, it's crucial to
implement steps to protecting your data and
maintain the integrity of your systems.
Implement these five best practices to
better safeguard your API from attackers.
3. Token-based
authentication
Token-based authentication uses a
unique token that is generated for each
user session.
Instead of providing credentials with each
request, an authentication endpoint
should be used that produces a token
after successful authentication. This
token will only be valid for the duration of
the session.
4. Implement API
Gateway
An API gateway can act as a proxy, handling
authentication. authorization. and security for
all API requests providing an additional layer of
protection against attacks
It enables you to centralize and manage
security for your API, including rate-limiting,
throttling, and access control.
5. Use Encryption
Encrypt all personally identifiable data
transmitted through your API to protect
against eavesdropping and tampering.
Use encryption protocols like Transport Layer
Security (TLS) to protect communication
against eavesdropping and tampering.
6. Zero-Trust Access
Zero-trust emphasizes at least privilege
access, strict identity verification, and real-time
monitoring of access activities.
By restricting access to authorized users and
devices and continuous monitoring for
suspicious activity it can make it more difficult
for attackers and reduce the risk of zero-day
attacks.
7. Up To Date with
Security Patches
For APIs developed in-house, staying up to
date on security patches is important.
This includes patching an open source
components that might be used to develop
the API. Doing this can help to prevent any
potential security risks and ensure your API
remains secure.