API Security Checklist

Hemant Patkar
4 min readApr 6, 2024

OWASP Top 10 for API Security

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Object Level Authorization: OWASP — A1

  1. Verify that you implement authorization checks in accordance with user policies and hierarchy.
  2. Verify that the API implementation does not rely on IDs sent from the client; instead, the API should check IDs stored in the session.
  3. Verify that server…

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Hemant Patkar

CISSP, MSc (Data Analytics) QMUL UK, IIM Indore (Exec CyberSec), BE (IS), Diploma in Cyber Law. For more details visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/hemantpatkar/