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By AppSentinels
As enterprises adopt AI agents, two control points are becoming common: AI Gateways and MCP Gateways. They sound similar, but they solve different problems. An AI Gateway controls how applications interact with AI models. An MCP Gateway controls how AI agents interact with tools, systems, and data exposed through MCP. Both are useful. Neither is enough on its own.
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By AppSentinels
An account-takeover campaign against Instagram shows why agentic AI inherits every business logic blind spot we already had and then hands it a megaphone. Over the past weekend, a number of Instagram users, including the long-dormant Obama-era White House handle and a U.S. Space Force senior enlisted leader found their accounts hijacked. As reported by TechCrunch, the entry point wasn’t a stolen password, a phishing kit, or a zero-day in Instagram’s code.
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By AppSentinels
Traditional API security protects deterministic systems with known endpoints and explicit actions, while MCP-powered AI agents operate through inferred intent, dynamic tool chaining, and natural language interactions. This requires MCP-specific security controls such as tool governance, behavioral monitoring, and semantic anomaly detection.
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By AppSentinels
The enterprise security world is having two separate conversations that desperately need to collide. On one side, application security (AppSec) teams are scrambling to secure APIs – the connective tissue of every modern application. On the other, a new wave of “AI security” vendors promise to protect your LLMs from prompt injection, data leakage, and hallucinations. Both groups are solving real problems. Both are missing half the picture.
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By AppSentinels
The non-human identity (NHI) problem was always the same problem: too many service accounts, too few owners, too many secrets in too many places. They sat where we left them, quietly piling up privilege, outliving the engineer who created them. Eventually someone, an auditor, sometimes an attacker, went looking and found them. Agents are a different problem.
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By AppSentinels
Let’s start with a scenario. This is illustrative, not a single reported incident. A developer shares a Postman collection in Slack to move faster. “Here’s the Postman collection for the payment API. It has live auth headers so you can test prod endpoints.” The team uses it, work gets done, and the link stays. What no one realizes is that the collection lives inside a public Postman workspace. Weeks later, it is indexed by search engines. The URL requires no login.
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By AppSentinels
A newly disclosed security issue, tracked as CVE-2026-44578, affecting Next.js applications is raising concerns across the developer and security communities after researchers identified multiple authorization bypass and middleware evasion paths that could expose protected application data and credentials. The vulnerabilities impact several versions of Next.js and allow attackers to bypass middleware-based authorization controls using crafted requests and route manipulation techniques.
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By AppSentinels
In September 2022, Australia woke up to the largest data breach in its history. Optus, the country’s second-largest telecom disclosed that the personal information of nearly 10 million people had been exposed. To put that in perspective, that’s almost 40% of the entire population. Among the data spilled were 2.1 million government-issued IDs – passports, driver’s licenses, Medicare cards – the kind of information that isn’t just sensitive, but life-defining.
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By AppSentinels
“Tech giants pay hackers millions to hack them – on purpose.” What once sounded like a risky experiment has now become standard practice in cybersecurity. Bug bounty programs have moved from the fringes into the mainstream because traditional defenses alone can’t keep up with today’s scale and sophistication of attacks.
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By AppSentinels
In today’s hyper-connected world, Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) have become one of the most critical layers in a modern security stack. As businesses shift more operations, data, and user experiences online, web apps and APIs are increasingly under siege – from basic bot scraping to sophisticated logic abuse and zero-day exploits.
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By AppSentinels
Preventing next generation applications against complex API and application attacks requires deep understanding of application behaviour, API structure, interaction and sequencing, understanding of user behaviour, contexts, and intents, flow of sensitive data in the application etc. Such deep understanding can only be achieved when a product is built grounds up to address the very needs of the next-generation applications.
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By AppSentinels
We are in an era of unprecedented connectivity and data growth. Data is being created and shared at the fastest pace ever. Organizations are adding new APIs to facilitate faster exchange of data. For security leaders and practitioners, this presents new and daunting challenges with the massive volume of data and new pathways to oversee, new threats to stay ahead of, and regulatory complexities to navigate. Security leaders must maintain visibility of data, manage user access to data, and enforce strong security and privacy controls.
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By AppSentinels
During our various customer interactions, we often discuss how Appsentinels solution is different compared to a Web Applicaton Firewall (WAF) in protecting against API's attack. The core difference is that Appsentinels API Security Platform knows the context of what is it protecting while unfortunately WAF's don't. Let me explain why I am saying this and why this is important.
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By AppSentinels
In the digital age, business leaders see software teams as core to the business and are demanding them to innovate faster in response to market and competitive demands. Organizations are on path of fast iteration - experimenting with new products or features, gauge customer feedback, adopt or drop and move to the next thing. The pace of change is not an option but existential for organizations. Organizations that can adapt will gain market shares and organizations that cannot, will cease to exist.
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By AppSentinels
In 2019, OWASP released first version of API Security Top 10. Like the omnipresent OWASP Top 10, the API Security Top 10 delivers a prioritized list of the most critical application security issues with a focus on the APIs. In this whitepaper, we would like to share an overview of the API top 10 with comparisons to the OWASP top 10 for web applications and break any false sense of security by seeing similarities in the list.
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By AppSentinels
During our various customer interactions, customers using Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) or Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) often ask how AppSentinels solution is different compared to their existing tool: The core difference is AppSentinels API Security Platform understands the context of the Application it is protecting while DAST/IAST products unfortunately don't. Let me explain why I am saying this and why this is important.
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We’re a group of security and technology experts with a mission to fix gaps in application security. Our team comes with stellar record of building enterprise grade security products that were loved by customers and won accolades in various industry forums.
Full Life-cycle API Security Platform:
- Discover and Catalogue All APIs: AppSentinels continuously discovers all APIs and various attributes about the APIs to bring you complete visibility of all your API assets.
- Discover Sensitive Data: AppSentinels track each instance of sensitive and PII data, across all your APIs, to bring you complete visibility of your sensitive data exposure and help you reduce your risk and accelerate compliance audits.
- Protect against API attacks: AppSentinels provides industry’s most comprehensive protection against all unknown and known API attacks via it’s multi-layer defence shield.
- Shifts-Left API Testing: AppSentinels shift-left deep learning of the Application vulnerabilities and actively tests APIs in organization’s CI/CD pipeline to find application security issues including business logic exploits early in cycle via industry’s first Intelligent Stateful DAST.
- Rapid Incident Response: AppSentinels uses application, and traffic fingerprinting to correlate all events and map those to users or groups behind the attack. This provide SecOps team comprehensive view of all attacker activity and allows them to respond with accuracy and confidence.
- Streamline Compliance Efforts: AppSentinels with it’s API inventory, PII & sensitive data and complete log of all API communication has all the data needed to meet requirements of compliance or regulation standards like PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR etc.
Application Security, Reinvented.