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		<title>The importance of API security in ALM</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are rapidly becoming the bedrock of digital transformation. API traffic now accounts for over half (or 57%) of all dynamic Internet traffic, Cloudflare’s 2024 API Security &#38; Management report says. Total API traffic grew steadily across the globe last year, the report adds. While it’s clear from trends that it’s an &#8230;</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are rapidly becoming the bedrock of digital transformation. API traffic now accounts for over half (or 57%) of all dynamic Internet traffic, Cloudflare’s <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/2024-api-security-management-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2024 API Security &amp; Management report</a> says. Total API traffic grew steadily across the globe last year, the report adds. While it’s clear from trends that it’s an API-centric world, it’s equally well-known that managing API security risks is a challenging task.</p>
<p>APIs will become the top attack vector, <a href="https://www.gartner.com/en/documents/4009103" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gartner predicted</a> in 2021. Salt Labs’ <a href="https://salt.security/api-security-trends" target="_blank" rel="noopener">API Security Trends 2023</a> report struck a similar tone. It identified a significant increase in API attackers targeting its customer base. There was a 400% jump in the number of unique attackers targeting customer APIs during the end of 2022, the company’s report adds.</p>
<p>These trends only underscore the importance of handling API security risks, especially across all aspects of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Given how challenging it is to mitigate API security risks, secure API development must form a key component of ALM strategy and implementation.</p>
<p>In the rest of this article, we explore the significance of API security within the framework of ALM, briefly highlight key risks, and delve into best practices and measures for secure API development and API threat protection.</p>
<h2><strong>Why API security matters</strong></h2>
<p>ALM covers every single aspect of the process of software development &#8211; from inception and design to deployment, maintenance, and retirement. It’s important to mention here that APIs play a key role throughout the ALM process. Its APIs that aid in seamless integration between different software modules, services, and platforms, which explains its rising prominence.</p>
<p>However, their open and accessible nature end up exposing them to several risks, ranging from data breaches and injection attacks to broken authentication and denial of service (DoS) attacks. As is evident from examples of <a href="https://analyticsindiamag.com/the-biggest-data-breaches-in-2023/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">API data breaches</a>, they can also end up posing a legal, financial, and reputational threat to enterprises.</p>
<p>APIs are complex to secure and require more than just the typical security measures to safeguard web applications. Enterprises should ensure unique API threat protection infrastructures are built into every stage of the ALM process. Any API endpoint can end up becoming a potential entry point for malicious actors and needs to be protected. Microservice architectures, internal APIs, and an inadequate API inventory are all factors that could add to API security risks.</p>
<p>The cross-functional nature of various teams that are involved in the process of developing and securing APIs means that there is room for inadequate or a total lack of communication. For instance, if developer teams do not pass on all required information to security teams on API endpoints, it can make it extremely challenging for the security teams to safeguard those endpoints and, thus, hinder API threat protection.</p>
<p>This is why it’s important to build API security into the heart of any enterprise’s ALM process. Secure API development should be a priority throughout the entire ALM process, and all teams and departments dealing with APIs must be part of the strategy and implementation. API security is of utmost importance, therefore, when it comes to protecting the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of digital assets throughout the ALM process.</p>
<h2><strong>Key risks and vulnerabilities</strong></h2>
<p>Before looking at best practices to enhance API security, it&#8217;s essential to recognize the inherent risks and vulnerabilities associated with it. The <a href="https://owasp.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)</a> publishes a list of the <a href="https://owasp.org/API-Security/editions/2023/en/0x11-t10/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Top 10 API Security Risks</a> each year. Based on the OWASP list and other data, here are a few key risks and vulnerabilities when it comes to API security during the ALM process:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Authentication risks:</strong> Before making API requests, clients must authenticate it. This is done so that there is little room for potentially unknown or illegal sources. However, authentication-based risks can occur when weak mechanisms or improper session management result in unauthorized users gaining access to sensitive data or performing unauthorized actions within the application.</li>
<li><strong>Injection attacks and vulnerabilities:</strong> An injection attack is one where a malicious actor or attacker sends data that specifically targets a flaw in the way an API has been built through the ALM process. These flaws, or vulnerabilities, can be exploited by attackers for their gain to inject malicious code or commands into API requests, potentially leading to data breaches or compromised systems.</li>
<li><strong>Encryption risks:</strong> If strong API security measures are not built into every stage of ALM, including encryption layers, it can become another flaw or vulnerability that attackers can exploit. Poor encryption practices or a total failure to encrypt data can lead to interception and eavesdropping and ends up compromising confidentiality and integrity.</li>
<li><strong>Inefficient endpoint and inventory management: </strong>Given the widespread usage of APIs, they tend to expose more endpoints than traditional web applications. Flaws or gaps in the security at those IoT device endpoints could also lead to API security risks.</li>
<li><strong>Authorization risks: </strong>The OWASP 2023 list states – “Complex access control policies with different hierarchies, groups, and roles, and an unclear separation between administrative and regular functions, tend to lead to authorization flaws.” This, once again, underscores how important it is to place secure API development at the core of your ALM process.</li>
<li><strong>DoS and DDoS attacks:</strong> Sometimes, malicious actors will overload API endpoints with requests just to disrupt the availability of that service in a denial-of-service (DoS) or distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. When this happens, it can either slow down or stop services to other clients, resulting in downtime and loss of business productivity.</li>
</ul>
<h2><strong>Best API security practices and measures</strong></h2>
<p>To mitigate the risks mentioned above and enhance API security within ALM, organizations should implement robust security measures. Some best practices to consider when it comes to API security and API threat protection include:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>API gateway and firewall:</strong> API gateways and firewalls are basic features that any enterprise’s security toolkit should have. Efficient gateways allow users to enforce security policies, monitor API traffic, and protect against malicious activities such as scraping, bot attacks, and Structured Query Language or SQL injection attacks.</li>
<li><strong>Authentication and authorization:</strong> It’s good practice to implement strong authentication mechanisms, like <a href="https://oauth.net/2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">OAuth 2.0</a> or <a href="https://jwt.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JSON Web Tokens (JWT)</a>, to verify the identity of an API client and enforce access control policies based on roles and permissions. To create more robust security, organizations would do well to integrate their authentication and authorization measures through the ALM process.</li>
<li><strong>API monitoring and inventory management:</strong> Companies should implement continuous monitoring and logging of API activity. This must be done to detect and investigate security incidents, track access patterns, and generate audit trails. At the same time, maintaining and updating API inventory and having efficient API inventory management in place is a must.</li>
<li><strong>Encryption and transport security:</strong> Another good security practice is to encrypt sensitive data in transit using secure protocols such as HTTPS/TLS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure/Transport Layer Security) to prevent interception and tampering by unauthorized parties.</li>
<li><strong>Rate limiting and throttling:</strong> Rate limiting and throttling are practices used to create caps on how often an API is called. This is done to mitigate the impact of DoS/DDoS attacks by limiting the number of requests per client or IP address.</li>
<li><strong>Detecting vulnerabilities and security testing:</strong> Conducting regular security assessments and other tests to identify and remediate security vulnerabilities should be a key security component through the ALM process. Using machine learning and behavioural analysis techniques to identify malicious activity or security breaches could further beef up API threat protection measures.</li>
<li><strong>API documentation and education:</strong> It is imperative to make sure all teams involved in working with APIs are given adequate information, documentation, and training about it. Resources should contain information on best security practices, threat mitigation techniques, and secure API development guidelines.</li>
<li><strong>Incident response and remediation:</strong> Finally, being prepared to handle incidents – from response to remediation – is as important as prevention. Establish procedures and workflows to promptly address potential incidents, stem any impact, and restore normalcy with minimal disruption.</li>
</ul>
<p>There’s no doubt APIs play a significant role today; one that can directly impact business outcomes at enterprises. It’s only imperative, then, for organizations to ensure that robust and dynamic API security and API threat protection measures are a part of every stage in the ALM process.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) have played a key role in the digital transformation of organizations, particularly so over the last few years. Open networks and connectivity remain key catchphrases and as their momentum builds, so will API growth. However, as we’ve seen in previous blogs on API security, this same open nature exposes APIs to &#8230;</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) have played a key role in the digital transformation of organizations, particularly so over the last few years. Open networks and connectivity remain key catchphrases and as their momentum builds, so will API growth. However, as we’ve seen in previous blogs on API security, this same open nature exposes APIs to potential attacks and security threats.</p>
<p>At the heart of any robust API security process lies visibility. The idea behind API visibility is relatively simple – you cannot protect something you can’t see, or don’t know about. Therefore, visibility matters. Any organization, even one with API security practices in place through the <a href="https://ivaluegroup.com/en-in/solutions/application-lifecycle-management-stack/">Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) process</a>, could find itself with a whole bunch of APIs it didn’t know existed if it doesn’t follow best practices.</p>
<p>APIs are essential building blocks for applications today, and can be created with relative ease and speed, adding to volumes. To complicate matters from a security standpoint, API activity volumes are not governed by an increase or decrease in manual factors, such as launching new applications or adding new users. Given the machine-to-machine nature of APIs, activity volumes can spike at any time regardless of manual factors, both for legitimate as well as malicious reasons.</p>
<p>This is why it’s extremely important to stay on top of API infrastructure in terms of visibility, monitoring, logging, and inventory. Focusing on API visibility gives a clearer picture of what’s going on, prepares companies to identify potential security threats, and helps them link it all back to business impact.</p>
<h2><strong>Shadows, rogues &amp; zombies</strong></h2>
<p>Whenever organizations are tackling API visibility from a security standpoint, it’s better to start with internal APIs and then move to third-party APIs. Both are equally important for security purposes, and neither should be neglected or treated casually. When it comes to API visibility, there are a few ‘characters’ you need to watch out for, including rogues, zombies, and shadows.</p>
<p>Those with malicious intentions could use these types of APIs to launch attacks on organizations. Why? Because these APIs are typically unknown to the organization, i.e. companies or enterprises may not know of, or may have forgotten about, their existence leaving them vulnerable to attacks. What exactly are shadow, rogue, and zombie APIs?</p>
<h3><strong>Shadow APIs</strong></h3>
<p><a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/security/api/what-is-shadow-api/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shadow APIs</a> underscore the importance of ensuring visibility into internal APIs. These are classified as APIs that are unprotected, or not managed, by the organization using it. While they could arise out of any situation, shadow APIs typically occur when there are silos between the developer teams, IT/security teams, and other departments involved in the creation and use of APIs.</p>
<p>Let’s say Developer A has been asked to quickly create an API for a particular internal use by a business development team, without the involvement or knowledge of the IT or security teams. The API is created and used. Then, Developer A quits the organization and there are leadership changes on the business development side. Perhaps, a few months or years later, the API could still be active but, crucially, it remains an unknown to the IT and security teams.</p>
<p>In such a scenario, the API would be termed a shadow API, i.e. one that operates in the dark without the knowledge of the right teams at an organization.</p>
<h3><strong>Rogue APIs </strong></h3>
<p>Rogue APIs are loosely classified by <a href="https://nonamesecurity.com/learn/what-is-api-discovery/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">some</a> as being akin to shadow APIs, i.e. they are those that may have been authorized by the organization but are unknown to security teams. <a href="https://apimike.com/rogue-apis-vs-zombie-apis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Others</a> term rogue APIs as those that were never really authorized by the organization whose data is being accessed. In either scenario, what makes rogue APIs important from an API security point of view is that they, too, operate in the dark.</p>
<h3><strong>Zombie APIs </strong></h3>
<p>Zombie APIs are those that have outlived their purpose and have either been abandoned, neglected, or forgotten by organizations that commissioned them. As with shadow APIs, zombies can also be created when newer versions of an API replace an older one. Zombie APIs are typically created when APIs are not retired in an effective manner and removed properly when their purpose is served.</p>
<p>Visibility into shadow APIs, rogue APIs and zombie APIs are crucial for API security. These are APIs that have been left out of the purview of an organization’s security processes and practices. They are not being monitored, maintained, updated, or protected and are, therefore, more vulnerable to attacks. The only way to identify these shadows, rogues and zombies is to have adequate API visibility and API discovery and inventory tools and processes in place.</p>
<h2><strong>API discovery and inventory</strong></h2>
<p>In simple terms, API discovery is about finding all the APIs in use by an organization. API discovery is closely linked to API inventory management because once you discover all the APIs, you need to catalogue it, monitor it, and maintain up-to-date records of it. In other words, the end goal of API discovery is creating an API inventory. Comprehensive records for API inventory management purposes should contain all manner of information on the APIs, their use, users, challenges or limitations, and security profile.</p>
<p>API discovery and inventory includes processes that are crucial for API security management such as pinpointing shadow, rogue, and zombie APIs. It spans API endpoint discovery, identifying where sensitive data resides, API documentation, developer-activity based identification, and managing the APIs that are discovered through the entire process.</p>
<p>However, API discovery and inventorying have other, non-security uses too. Those include aspects that make it easier to create new APIs, integrate pre-existing APIs into new ones, enhance API capabilities, and improve compatibility. The process of API discovery can be either manual or automated. However, the manual process is viewed as being a slower, resource-consuming approach when compared with using automated API discovery tools.</p>
<h2><strong>API discovery tools &amp; strategies</strong></h2>
<p>There are different types of API discovery tools that companies can use. Some of those include API directories and marketplaces, automated scanners, documentation platforms, API security platforms and tools, API security and API management platforms, cloud security providers, and individual technology-specific platforms (for example, AWS and Microsoft Azure have their own API marketplaces).</p>
<p>Using these tools come with a lot of advantages for API security management, and help minimize potential attack vectors by improving API visibility. In turn, it also helps organizations manage risk better, remain compliant with any potential regulatory requirements, and use resources more efficiently.</p>
<p>While there are tools out there that can automate the API discovery and inventory process, there are a few good practices and strategies that organizations themselves can implement to make it more efficient. For example, ensuring proper API documentation, automation compatible, using API directories, and incorporating SEO keywords into your documentation and inventory process.</p>
<p>All of this will, ultimately, help create a more robust API visibility process in organizations which will, in turn, bolster API security.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>It is a given that Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) can no longer be at the back-end of security processes, especially so in today’s extremely intertwined digital landscape. The volumes of APIs that are constantly being created by enterprises, internally or externally, and the functions these perform in terms of software development, seamless communication and integration &#8230;</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is a given that Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) can no longer be at the back-end of security processes, especially so in today’s extremely intertwined digital landscape.</p>
<p>The volumes of APIs that are constantly being created by enterprises, internally or externally, and the functions these perform in terms of software development, seamless communication and integration between various systems and services has become indispensable. Of course, as with any kind of acceleration in adoption, the rise of APIs come with their own challenges.</p>
<p>Much of those challenges lie in the realm of API security management and combating new API-related vulnerabilities, attacks, and breaches. As with any new technology that is created, the complication API security currently poses lies in the fact that it cannot always be managed using traditional approaches to cybersecurity.</p>
<p>The open, dynamic, and ever-evolving nature of APIs also gives rise to new age cyber threats. This is where <a href="https://owasp.org/API-Security/editions/2023/en/0xb1-next-devsecops/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DevSecOps or Developer Security Operations</a> come in. DevSecOps helps organizations embed API security into their entire Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) process and aids in breaking siloes. In the rest of this article, we explore DevSecOps and how some of its various aspects fit into the ALM process, including secure coding practices, API threat modelling, and automated security testing.</p>
<h2><strong>DevSecOps Defined</strong></h2>
<p>DevSecOps, as the name suggests, is the coming together of three once-separate departments or functions within organizational hierarchy. DevOps, the older version of this amalgamation, was itself a fusion of two separate functions – between developer teams and operations teams. Earlier, software development and tech operations worked in their own spheres. The developer teams would code and the IT ops teams would deploy the code.</p>
<p>However, as the pace of application development accelerated, there was an increased and perhaps critical need for developers and operations teams to not just work in tandem, but function as one larger entity. That’s how DevOps was born. As the pace of application development only continued to advance even as cyberthreats and security became an increasingly important issue, the natural progression of DevOps to DevSecOps was but inevitable.</p>
<p>DevSecOps functions on collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement throughout the software development and delivery process. With DevSecOps, security is not meant to be an afterthought but incorporated at every single stage of application development. It is also meant to foster a culture of shared responsibility among three otherwise disparate teams and bring them on a common footing with an integrated workflow.</p>
<p>Although it sounds simple in theory, implementing a robust DevSecOps strategy comes with its own challenges. Those include challenges in creating a unified team and workflow in the first place. That requires effective leadership to balance the disparate functions, goals, and responsibilities of the developer, operations, and security teams within the fused structure and create a cohesive culture. Dealing with legacy systems and structures across all three functions can also be a challenge.</p>
<p>While DevSecOps has several different aspects, we take a quick look at three main features from an API security in the ALM process standpoint.</p>
<h2><strong>Secure coding practices</strong></h2>
<p>The best way to ensure API security is built into the ALM process is to bring security into the earliest point of API development. That’s where secure coding practices come in. It lays a strong foundation for developing APIs that are created with security in mind from the get go. Developers can mitigate security vulnerabilities and reduce the attack surface of their APIs by adhering to established secure coding practices, standards, and guidelines.</p>
<p>Secure coding practices include input validation, authentication, authorization, encryption, error handling, and secure configuration. Input validation helps to sanitize all user inputs, thus, preventing injection attacks. Robust authentication and authorization mechanisms, as we have explained in previous API security blogs, control access to API resources and reduce chances of misuse.</p>
<p>Encrypting sensitive data in transit and at rest is another crucial secure coding practice that cannot be neglected. Being prepared for errors and potential malicious activity is just as important as building secure systems. Having error handling mechanisms that prevent information leakage and ensure graceful degradation is another example of a good API security practice. Finally, security must be built into server and API configuration, too.</p>
<h2><strong>API threat modeling</strong></h2>
<p>While secure coding practices ensure an organization is placing security at the heart of each stage of application development in the ALM process, it is important to follow it up with regular monitoring. API threat modeling is a proactive approach to monitoring. It involves identifying and mitigating potential security risks throughout the ALM process.</p>
<p>Organizations can prioritize security controls and allocate resources more effectively by systematically analyzing the various components, interactions, and potential attack vectors of an API. An efficient API threat modelling process typically focuses on:</p>
<ul>
<li>Identifying critical assets and resources that the API exposes, especially sensitive data</li>
<li>Defining the boundaries of trust in the API ecosystem</li>
<li>Discovering potential threats that could affect the API</li>
<li>Assessing and analyzing the risks that those potential threats post</li>
<li>Mitigating those risks through mechanisms like access controls, encryption etc.</li>
</ul>
<h2><strong>Automated security testing</strong></h2>
<p>Automated security testing is a process whereby security testing tools and techniques are integrated into the development pipeline of ALM. How does this help? When organizations do this, they can detect and remediate issues in real-time, reducing the risk of security breaches in production. It plays an important role in identifying and addressing security vulnerabilities early in the ALM process.</p>
<p>Some common features of automated security testing for APIs are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Static Application Security Testing (SAST), wherein tools analyze the source code of an application to find potential security vulnerabilities</li>
<li>Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) tools, or those that simulate real-world attacks to identify security vulnerabilities</li>
<li>Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST), which combines elements of SAST and DAST, and provides real-time feedback on security vulnerabilities during application runtime</li>
<li>Dependency scanning tools, which identify known vulnerabilities in third-party libraries and dependencies used by the API</li>
<li>Fuzz testing, which involves sending invalid, unexpected, or random data to the API to discover vulnerabilities</li>
</ul>
<p>DevSecOps provides a unified and more effective approach to API security by embedding security measures into the ALM process, right from the design phase. Through aspects like secure coding practices, API threat modeling, and automated security testing, organizations can build more resilient and secure APIs to keep up with evolving demands, stay ahead of the curve, and maintain their credibility and trust in the market.</p>
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