What are the considerations for API security in web application development?
API security is crucial in web application development to protect against unauthorized access, data breaches, and other security threats. Some considerations to ensure API security are implementing authentication and authorization mechanisms, using HTTPS/TLS encryption, validating and sanitizing input data, implementing rate limiting and throttling, and monitoring and logging API traffic. Additional security measures include implementing strong access controls, using token-based authentication, and regularly updating and patching the API’s underlying software and dependencies.
July 24, 2023