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Why Should You Perform API Security Testing?
Application programming interfaces (APIs) are widely used today, for numerous purposes - booking flights, checking the weather, ordering rides and food online, making payments, and whatnot. Since APIs provide an access point to websites and applications with sensitive data, they’ve become a top target for attackers. Like other software, APIs too have errors, bugs, and vulnerabilities and if an attacker finds and exploits them, they can cause widespread harm.
This is why API security is important. Application programming interface security testing helps do that by detecting and eliminating bugs, vulnerabilities, and other errors in your API. This keeps your data and business safe.
Authentication issues are flaws in the API’s authentication mechanisms, like weak password policies, token misconfigurations, poor encryptions, etc.
These issues are weaknesses in the authorisation or access control mechanisms of the API, granting people unchecked access to resources they’re not supposed to have, leading to cases like privileged escalations, data theft, etc.
This issue forces a user with proper API authentication and security to perform unwanted actions on an API, like changing email addresses, transferring funds, etc. according to what the attacker chooses to do.
It’s a type of injection attack where an attacker injects malicious scripts into trusted sites
This vulnerability in API functions enables users to initiate requests from a server’s side. Attackers exploit this to exfiltrate data, communicate with other services, and compromise the cloud by exploiting the server with access to vital metadata.
Injection attacks like SQL injection, XML injection, OS command injection, etc. happen when an API can’t distinguish between code and untrusted user data. It allows attackers to install malicious code from one API to another.
Insufficient access controls to sensitive business data and processes could lead to attackers gaining unrestricted access to data and manipulating workflows.
Vulnerabilities arise from security misconfiguration, such as not patching API components, not changing default settings, etc.
APIs that don’t restrict the volume of resources requested by a user can affect its server performance. It could also lead to brute force attacks and DDoS attacks.
With API security monitoring and testing, you can identify these vulnerabilities before an attacker does. This gives you time to eliminate the threat and protect APIs from attacks.
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Traditional API security testing lags behind in providing security to modern infrastructure with microservices, API products, containers, and cloud. Evolving technology demands a continuous approach to API security testing with real-time feedback and faster modifications.
Conventional API security testing offers less accuracy and visibility, focusing more on surface-level, manual testing and analysis. Lower attack surface visibility increases risks and less accuracy brings inefficiencies. If you can’t see your enemy, how will you fight it? Modern API testing provides clear visibility on your attack surface to eliminate them.
Many sophisticated vulnerabilities bypass traditional methods like scanners. If vulnerabilities go undetected and the API moves into production, you’ll release a software product highly vulnerable to cyberattacks. With modern API security testing or penetration testing, you can go deeper into the API’s business logic and fix potential flaws.
Our expert pen testers at Microminder CS combine their expertise and the latest tools and techniques to perform and manage API security testing. Here’s what the complete process looks like:
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An application programming interface (API) is an intermediary software that enables two applications to communicate with each other and exchange or share data. An API features integrations, API calls, authentication, endpoints, API governance, API management platforms, and more.
Examples of APIs are - ridesharing apps, flight booking apps, weather forecasting apps, and more.
There are different types of APIs:
When you use an API, like a flight booking app, it connects to the internet and sends data (to perform an action or fetch information) to a destination server. Upon receiving the data, the server interprets it, takes necessary actions based on the request, and sends the data back to the user’s device. Next, the application interprets the data and shows you the data you requested in a format that you can read and understand.
An API allows different applications, devices, systems, or software components to interact and share information with one another. This interface creates a digitally connected experience by facilitating data transmission from one system to another.
Name a few things that use an API.
Some of the many things that use an API include:
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