API Security for Developers

Checklist for Developers for securing APIs

TL;DR — This is an high level checklist for Developers that includes recommendation to securely develop APIs. This checklist focuses on strategies and solutions to understand and mitigate the unique vulnerabilities and security risks of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). This covers all OWASP Top 10 API security issues. This checklist is applicable across all kind of application that uses APIs for communications.How does the API working look like

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