Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) have become a critical part of the web and mobile application business, driving significant economic growth in the digital sector.
APIs have advantages such as allowing the clients of an application to communicate with the server or giving two applications the means to communicate with each other, as in the case of machine-to-machine communication.
But these benefits are also a problem, as APIs are generally publicly available, well documented, and reverse-engineered. This is exactly how they have become the primary attack surface hackers set their sights on.
As businesses become more dependent on APIs, the need for API security will only increase.
The key to robust API security is implementing strategies and procedures to manage vulnerabilities and security threats to the API.
While at its core, it centers on three broad areas of security (application security, network security, and information security), it also considers security issues such as content validation, access control, rate throttling, monitoring and analytics, data security, and identity-based security.
API security is all the more important because APIs can transfer sensitive data.
Securing these platforms ensures that messages remain confidential by making them available only to applications, users, and servers with appropriate access rights.
It also ensures the integrity of the content by preventing the message from being modified after sending.
In response to the growing demand for a solution, Indusface has released a new offering through its AppTrana platform, API Protection, a game-changer for how organizations protect their most critical infrastructure.
AppTrana’s API Protection focuses on two key areas: fully managed security based on risk and making this security unique to API security.
AppTrana’s approach and commitment to ensuring businesses can get uncomplicated protection has earned it industry acclaim, with Gartner ranking it as a customer choice in every segment of its Voice of the Customer report for 2022.
The API Protection module builds on everything Indusface stands for with its AppTrana offering. It provides customers with exactly what they need to prevent cyber-attacks and keep their businesses running smoothly and proactively.
This includes ways to understand the risk exposure of their APIs easily, API-specific rules created to protect against OWASP Top 10 API vulnerabilities explicitly, and behavior-based protections to defend against DDoS attacks and BOT attacks. To attack.
In addition, the latest offering of AppTrana will analyze swagger files (OpenAPI 2.0) and provide customers with positive security for APIs by creating automated positive security policies and providing insights into API traffic patterns, enabling customers to discover shadow APIs.
API Protection goes one step further and gives users an accurate real-time view of the vulnerabilities blocked by API-specific rules, positive security policies, custom rules, and rules that must be fixed in the application.
What makes AppTrana’s risk-based approach to APIs is that it uses postman files.
Users can test a range of security checks on web applications, but APIs require a more complex solution.
Indusface has designed API protection around mailman files so that AppTrana can understand which APIs a customer should scan and details, including parameters, values, common, dynamic values used in more than one API (mail carrier variables), the order in which the APIs should be called and the dependencies between APIs.
Because mailman files are a common way to test APIs in the development cycle, they usually contain all the necessary information.
AppTrana adds to this by reviewing the mailman’s files before the scan begins and adding any further insights that help the scanner generate more valuable results.
At the end of a scan, the team manually verifies the results to ensure no false positives and publishes the data to the customer.
