Presented at
Texas Cyber Summit 2019,
Oct. 11, 2019, 1 p.m.
(60 minutes)
In recent years, large reputable companies such as Facebook, Google and Equifax have suffered major data breaches that combined exposed the personal information of hundreds of millions of people worldwide. The common vector linking these breaches – APIs. The scale and magnitude of these breaches are the reason API security has been launched into the forefront of enterprise security concerns – now forcing us to rethink the way we approach API security as a whole.
OWASP Top 10 project has for a long time been the standard list of top vulnerabilities to look for and mitigate in the world of web applications. APIs represent a significantly different set of threats, attack vectors, and security best practices. This caused the OWASP community to launch OWASP API Security project earlier this year.
In this session we’ll discuss:
· What makes API Security different from web application security
· The top 10 common API security vulnerabilities
· Examples and mitigation strategies for each of the risks
Presenters:
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Dmitry Sotnikov
- 42Crunch
Dmitry Sotnikov serves as Vice President of Cloud Platform at 42Crunch – an enterprise API security company – and also maintains APISecurity.io, a popular community site with daily API Security news and weekly newsletter on API vulnerabilities, breaches, standards, best practices, regulations, and tools. Dmitry has more than two decades of experience in enterprise IT software and cloud computing – holding executive positions with companies such as WSO2, Jelastic and Quest Software.
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