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Advanced API Security

Modern API-first organizations need modern API-focused security tools.

Wallarm Advanced API Security provides comprehensive real-time API discovery and threat prevention across your entire portfolio – regardless of protocol – in multi-cloud and cloud-native environments.

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API Security Challenge

Do You Need Advanced API Security?

APIs are crucial to your organization. You need API-focused monitoring and security to protect them.

Growing Attack Surface

The explosive growth in API use, both internal and public-facing, leading to a rapidly changing API portfolio with a great number of them unmanaged – which means a sizable and expanding attack surface.

Focused API Protection

OWASP API Security Top-10 risks (Injections, BOLA, RCE, etc.) and other advanced API threats are on the rise – which requires a new API-first security approach to mitigate organizational risk.

Sensitive Data Protection

More organizations are pushing more sensitive data through their APIs, including PII, financial & health data, credentials and more – which increases the danger and impact of unintentional or malicious disclosure.

API Abuse Prevention

API bot, L7 DDoS and other automated behavioral attacks are increasing – which can lead to ATO & carding attacks, disrupt end-user experience and put business-critical services at risk.

How Wallarm Helps

Leading-Edge API Visibility and Protection

Wallarm Advanced API Security provides the API visibility and threat prevention required to address the compliance and business risks associated with modern API-first organizations.

Visibility

Track and manage all your API assets to understand your real attack surface and guard against surprises from deprecated or unmanaged endpoints.

Detection

Identify, consolidate and prioritize unique API risks, from OWASP API Security Top-10 threats to API abuse, to optimize security team effectiveness and workload.

Response

Assess and remediate any weaknesses which open you up to attack and automatically implement new protections against attacks.

FAQ

What are the key requirements for API security? - checklist

The key requirements for API security are:

Installed and configured Docker.
A created docker network.
Integrate and start containerized application.
Imported docker image within Wallarm API firewall.
Start, test and enable the API firewall

For more details visit this guide - Docker Firewall

How can we provide api security?

Wallarm provides API security by:

Analyzing all incoming HTTPS requests and instantly blocking all malicious requests.
Continuously collecting metrics from the entire network traffic & applies machine learning in the cloud.
Applies individual fine tuned security rules & scans vulnerabilities via a network scanner.

For more details visit this page - How Wallarm API Security works

How are API endpoints secured?

Wallarm API discovery identifies all API endpoints via its discovery feature. Once it discovers them it not only inspects API sepcific traffic attacks but also reconstructs API specs and behaviour based on the traffic.

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What is the best way to secure a Rails API?

Languages like Rails include JSON Web Token (JWT) which becomes vulnerable to attackers to attack by just using a JWT sample. You can test and secure Rails code by just using Wallarm shell command.

Find the shell command here - JWT secrets

How do I secure my custom PHP API?

Languages like PHP include JSON Web Token (JWT) which becomes vulnerable to attackers to attack by just using a JWT sample. You can test and secure PHP code by just using Wallarm shell command.

Find the shell command in this article - 340 weak JWT secrets

What is the best way to secure your PHP JSON REST API?

Languages like PHP include JSON Web Token (JWT) which becomes vulnerable to attackers to attack by just using a JWT sample. You can test and secure PHP code by just using Wallarm shell command.

Find the shell command here - 340 weak JWT secrets

What steps would you take in an API gateway to secure your API?

Scan malicious actors from traffic.
Implement OWASP protection for API threats.
Configure alerts and notifications
Integrate SIEM, SOAR and other tools to collect data logs.

Useful article - Wallarm connector to Apigee

What's the best way to vet APIs and related apps for hidden security vulnerabilities?

The best way to vet hidden security vulnerabilities are via Wallarm's:

Passive detection method: The vulnerability was found due to the security incident that occurred.
Active threat verification
Vulnerability scanner: All elements of the scope are scanned for typical vulnerabilities.

For more details visit article - Components of an active vulnerability scan

What is the best way to secure multiple APIs?

The best way to secure multiple APIs is to use Wallarm solution that enables you to integrate multiple APIs which can be managed and secured via a centralized user platform.

For more details watch the video on this page - Protecting Multiple Apps In Multiple Clouds

How do I secure api end points and parameters?

Implement API firewall which is a light-weighted API Firewall to protect your API endpoints in cloud-native environments with API Schema validation. Wallarm AI is a unique feature that automatically detects and parse complicated API protocols and then set up security rules based on specific data or parameters deep inside the API.

For more details visit this pages - API Firewall and Defining Wallarm API-specific Rules

What is the best tool for securing the APIS across multi-platform enterprises?

Wallarm multi-cloud platform provides key components to secure your business against emerging threats.

How do I ensure REST API security?

Use a strong authentication and authorisation solution
Prioritise security
Inventory and manage your APIs
Practice the principle of least privilege
Encrypt traffic using TLS
Remove information that’s not meant to be shared
Don’t expose more data than necessary
Validate input
Use rate limiting
Use a web application firewall

For more details visit this page - Rest API security best practices

What is the best rest api security software?

Wallarm is the best REST API security software that reports API Abuse, protects the Top 10 OWASP vulnerabilities and API threats, secures bots and provides L7 DDOS protection by g2 rating in the API security category

What is the best way to secure a flask restful api?

Flask RESTful API is based on python framework that can be scanned and vulnerabilities can be detected by defining Wallarm API-specific rules.

For more details visit this page - Defining Wallarm API-specific Rules

How do I secure the REST API in Spring Boot?

Spring Boot is an open source application that can be secured using Wallarm's machine learning feature.

How do I secure a private REST API?

Secure private APIs using:

Defense-in-Depth: Must be monitored for security issues at their respective ingress points.
Bot protection using automation: To distinguish “bad bots” from “good bots” that are just high-volume API calls.
Authentication: The most important issue is the correct implementation of API authentication and credential management

For more details visit this page - Key Considerations in API security

How do I correctly secure a RESTful API that will be used by both a web app and a mobile app?

Mobile applications use REST or gRPC API backends and data sources to render UI on our mobile phones and tablets. Web applications that use REST or GraphQL APIs as data sources and render their data to the beautiful UI in the browser.A Zero Trust for API security must be used to tackle and secure such applications using Wallarm.

For more details visit page - What does Zero Trust mean

What are some simple ways to secure my REST API service?

Use a strong authentication and authorisation solution
Prioritise security
Inventory and manage your APIs
Practice the principle of least privilege
Encrypt traffic using TLS
Remove information that’s not meant to be shared
Don’t expose more data than necessary
Validate input

For more details read this page - Rest API security

What is the best way to secure a RESTful API and only allow requests from your own application?

The best way to secure a RESTful API is by installing an Wallarm API Firewall. API Firewall is a reverse proxy with a built-in OpenAPI v3 request and response validator, written in Go, and optimised for extreme performance and near-zero added latency.

For more details visit this page - Securing REST with free API Firewall

How are you securing your REST API from bad actors?

Use a strong authentication and authorisation solution
Prioritise security
Inventory and manage your APIs
Practice the principle of least privilege
Encrypt traffic using TLS
Remove information that’s not meant to be shared
Don’t expose more data than necessary
Validate input
Use rate limiting
Use a web application firewall

For more details read this article - Securing web API best practices

What are the security testing tools available for testing REST APIs?

End-to-End API Security Solution tool provides the best testing capability to test REST APIs.

For more details visit this page - What Is API Testing

How secure are REST API calls?

End-to-End API Security Solution tool to secure by Intelligent parsing of API calls that automatically recognizes different protocols/formats and applies chain of parsers.

How do I secure a private REST API from hackers?

Secure private APIs using:

Defense-in-Depth: Must be monitored for security issues at their respective ingress points.
Bot protection using automation: To distinguish “bad bots” from “good bots” that are just high-volume API calls.
Authentication: The most important issue is the correct implementation of API authentication and credential management

For more details read this article - Key Considerations in API security

What is the best way to secure a B2B (server to server) multi-tenant REST API?

The best way to secure multiple tenant B2B APIs is to use Wallarm solution that enables you to integrate multiple APIs which can be managed and secured via a centralized user platform. Wallarm multi-cloud platform provides key components to secure your business against emerging threats.

For more details visit this page - How protecting multiple applications

Features & Benefits

Delivering Superior API Security Results

Wallarm Advanced API Security consists of two modules: API Discovery and API Threat Prevention.

Wallarm API Discovery

Know your API Portfolio – including Shadow and Zombie APIs to improve control over your attack surface.
Subdivide your APIs – such as internal vs. public-facing APIs to tailor your security efforts.
Compare Actual to Spec – based on actual traffic to reduce gaps in security coverage and documentation.
Monitor Changes in your APIs – such as new APIs, changed APIs, or drift from spec to minimize gaps in security coverage.
API Risk Scoring & Assessment – providing ability to triage problematic endpoints and prioritize mitigation efforts.
Track Sensitive Data Usage – including PII, financial & health data, credentials, etc. to ensure compliance.
Detect Weak Authentication – including JWT weaknesses and attacks to deter unauthorized access.

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Wallarm API Threat Prevention

Full API Protocol Support – including REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and WebSocket to protect modern API portfolios.
Virtual Patching – prevent 0-day exploitation to limit damage until patches are available.
Real-time Mitigation – without relying on 3rd party tools to ensure seamless & efficient workflow.
OWASP API Security Top-10 – protect against advanced API threats to strengthen your security posture.
API Abuse Prevention – including behavioral and advanced rate limiting protection against bot and L7 DDoS attacks to mitigate service & security impacts.
Session Management – automate response and configure security controls with granular session-based rules to reduce workload and optimize protection.

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How It Works

Improve API Security. Maintain Privacy.

At the foundation of the Wallarm design ethos is privacy, flexibility and performance.

Privacy

All traffic inspection is handled within the customer environment, with only metadata and sanitized & redacted malicious requests being sent to the Wallarm Cloud Engine.

Flexibility

Wallarm nodes can operate out-of-band analyzing copy of traffic or be deployed inline with a variety of the cloud-native options.

Performance

Wallarm delivers broad API security with near-zero latency and false positives to minimize impact on end-users and security teams alike.

Flexible Deployment

Inline deployment of our hybrid SaaS solution involves two main components: server-side software that deploys in your infrastructure within minutes and our powerful cloud-hosted analytics backend.

Where It Works

Easily Deploy Advanced API Security

Wallarm Advanced API Security is delivered via the Wallarm API Security platform, which supports SaaS, public / private / hybrid cloud, or on-prem deployment. It integrates into your existing API gateways, proxies, load balancers, and Ingress controllers to ensure that all your external and internal APIs are discovered, cataloged, analyzed, and secured.

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