Building a cutting edge API security methodology: A five-section series — Overview

 The remote code execution (RCE) flaw was not an API (API) vulnerability however, it was an autobinding security flaw of the kind that could be easily applied to APIs. It was able to trick to trick the Tomcat logger into creating an entirely brand new JSP file that could perform whatever attackers wanted it to: All they needed to do was open it.

Spring4Shell is significant since the flaw was not their blame. Spring -- an open-source application framework, which provides the infrastructure needed to develop Java application -- was protected by a solid security plan in place. Also, the programmers who wrote the code. It was merely an interaction between components that led to the issue to become that serious.

Spring4Shell is a good example of how to secure APIs is quite different than securing apps. Although APIs are equally vulnerable to hacking as traditional web applications However, many people are shocked to discover that securing APIs isn't as simple as the security of applications. You might think the security tools we have today are suitable for APIs however they're not. Static Analysis Security Testing (SAST) and Dynamic Analysis Security Testing (DAST) -- in which scanners don't have visibility into the exact nature of what they're examining -- were developed for web-based applications in the beginning of 2000, and haven't been updated much since then.

Spring4Shell is only one instance of the reason API security demands a more modern approach which integrates instrumentation into insides of the code to study the behavior of every component, including all the libraries, as well as the API server, and the platforms. When you think of the security of APIs you must be aware of the problems that can arise from all these sources, including libraries, code, platforms, frameworks, or interactions between the various parts.

The five components of API security. API security

API security is the five areas listed below. This series will dig into each of them each weekstarting next weekto illustrate how a modernand integrated API security platform can do what traditional API security or application security cannot do, namely, protect APIs from the inside out.

• API inventory: It's impossible to be sure of what you don't. You require an inventory process.
• Testing API security: You have the ability to create code that is secure which means identifying undiscovered weaknesses that exist in microservices, APIs, and functions. The Top 10 OWASP security vulnerabilities are as relevant to APIs as they are with traditional web applications.
• Components: You need to ensure the security of your supply chain by finding vulnerabilities in third-party libraries, frameworks , and services.
• API security: In order to ensure the security of production, you must find out if there are attacks or probes that target both unknown and known vulnerabilities and avoid attacks.
• API access: Secure authentication and authorization of processes at an API level, as well as in the data layer is essential.

Stay tuned: next week, we'll take a look into API inventory and the reason why Contrast concentrates on inventory at runtime. What we mean by this is why bother with uninvoked dead-weight code riding along with your binaries?

Be sure to read this conversation among Jeff Williams, Co-Founder & CTO, Contrast Security, and Melinda Marks, Senior Analyst, ESG Research, where they talk about:

• What does the direction of API security is for businesses.
• What do you need to be aware of to protect your APIs.
• Strategies to keep in the forefront of the CD/CI game.
• The way forward is to build unifying security and developer teams which can create secure APIs.

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