API-Security-Checklist
by shieldfy
A comprehensive checklist outlining essential security countermeasures for designing, testing, and releasing secure APIs.
Checklist of the most important security countermeasures when designing, testing, and releasing your API
Primary Use Case
This tool is used by API developers, security engineers, and testers to ensure their APIs adhere to best security practices throughout the development lifecycle. It provides a structured guide to prevent common vulnerabilities and implement robust authentication, authorization, and input validation mechanisms. Organizations aiming to secure their API endpoints and protect sensitive data will benefit from following this checklist.
- Detailed guidance on secure authentication practices including JWT usage
- Recommendations for access control and rate limiting to prevent abuse
- OAuth best practices for secure authorization flows
- Input validation rules to prevent common injection attacks
- Advice on secure processing and endpoint protection
- Support for multiple languages in documentation
- Focus on encryption and safe token handling
- Guidance on API Gateway usage for enhanced security
- Integrate this checklist into CI/CD pipelines to enforce API security best practices automatically before deployment.
- Use the checklist as a baseline for purple team exercises focusing on API security gaps and remediation.
- Combine with automated vulnerability scanners to validate checklist compliance and detect deviations.
- Leverage the OAuth and JWT guidance to harden authentication flows against common token-based attacks.
- Encourage cross-team collaboration between developers and security engineers to embed security early in the API lifecycle.
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