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Safeguarding your digital ecosystem: effective strategies to detect and mitigate API abuse

CIO Business Intelligence

Strategy 1: Implement strong authentication and authorization mechanisms Enforcing robust authentication and authorization mechanisms is a fundamental step in preventing API abuse. Finding your API solution As APIs continue to play a vital role in modern software development, the risk of API abuse grows exponentially.

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If You’re Only Doing WAF, You’re Doing API Security Wrong

ForAllSecure

Some organizations have begun using Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) to protect their APIs, but this isn’t a true solution to API security. In May 2021, Peloton, the exercise company, found that its API was not authenticating users properly. What do APIs do? Unfortunately, that’s already happened. And the OWASP API Top 10?

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Optimizing PCI compliance in financial institutions

CIO Business Intelligence

All other needs, for example, authentication, encryption, log management, system configuration, would be treated the same—by using the architectural patterns available. Some of them not only can provide strong authentication, but also have the ability to be used as a secret repository.

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Hygiene does not only protect you against physical viruses

Dataconomy

Enable two-factor authentication Two-factor authentication adds an extra layer of security to your accounts. In addition to effectiveness, consider the range of features offered by the antivirus software. Common features include real-time scanning, web protection, email scanning, firewall capabilities, and ransomware protection.

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Domains of Cybersecurity : A Brief Overview | Hacking into Cybersecurity

Linux Academy

Think about all the controls we have in place on our networks today: firewalls, authentication systems, intrusion detection and prevention systems (network- and host-based), router and switch security, operating system security, data encryption — the list goes on and on. It’s in this domain that we lump the following: Firewalls.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: What Star Wars Can Teach Us About Threat Modeling

ForAllSecure

that uses both Star Wars and STRIDE to help engineers under vulnerabilities and threats in software development. How does he authenticate? So the explanation the back, the question of authentication is a really important one. Adam Shostack has a new book, Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn From Star Wars.