Welcome to the 9th post in our weekly series on the new 2023 OWASP API Security Top-10 list, with a particular focus on security practitioners. This post will focus on API8:2023 Security Misconfiguration. In this series we are taking an in-depth look at each category – the details, the impact and what you can do about it.
In today's digital landscape, the issue of compromised credentials has become a major concern. Discover how renowned companies like Microsoft, VMware, and Sourcegraph were recently confronted with the threats of secrets sprawling.
In modern web applications, cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) enables secure communication between applications hosted on different origins. Developers use CORS to access other applications’ services within their own. This approach eliminates the need to rewrite features from scratch, accelerating development time and improving the developer experience.
Protecting sensitive information and securing digital assets now require the use of cybersecurity. Organizations must employ proactive steps to spot and address vulnerabilities as cyber threats continue to become more complex and sophisticated. Vulnerability assessment is one such method, which is important in cybersecurity risk management.
Imagine your organization’s digital fortress – now picture a thousand hidden doors, each a potential entry point for cyber threats. In the world of cybersecurity, these doors are known as ‘external attack surface vulnerabilities’ and understanding them is the first step to locking them down. External attack surface vulnerabilities are the weak points of a company’s network that can potentially be exploited by malicious actors.
