How APIs creep up on you – and how to stay secure regardless

Everyday application design decisions can result in API endpoints popping up all over your web environment. This post shows how and why this can happen even in a very basic scenario, examines the tradeoffs between running local code and using a web service for the same job, and suggests ways to maintain application security regardless of the specific technologies, architectures, and languages used.

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