Developing and testing a frontend feature can be difficult, especially when the backend it depends on is not ready. This dependency on a backend API often slows down the development process. In scenarios like this, developing a mock API can save you a lot of time by allowing you to develop your feature independent of the backend, and make it easier to test and identify scenarios where your API might fail before it is ready.

If you’re responsible for security, then you know how useful it is to have clearly-defined security policies that are simple to implement, scale, and verify. Product and AppSec teams know that great security policies empower teams to work autonomously so that work moves forward as it should. However, validating that your security policies are actually implemented is difficult.

Securing REST APIs is particularly difficult since they are highly interconnected and not designed for manual access. To save time and be more efficient, many developers rely on testing solutions that can automatically detect REST API endpoints and test parameter properties within them. In this article, I want to provide an overview of the 6 biggest challenges of REST API security testing and how test automation can help resolve them.

An application programming interface, or API, is a defined process that allows data to be shared between applications or programs. Each API consists of a set of rules that dictates how communication occurs between a client and a server or external program. The required request format, the authentication process, and the encryption of data all have set guidelines so that the API knows what information to share and when and how to share it.

With a threat landscape expanding at an accelerated pace, it is next to impossible for any organization to even keep track of and monitor the volume, frequency, complexity, and breadth of the attack techniques and tactics out there. But to effectively tackle threats and protect mission-critical assets, the knowledge of these common attack techniques, tactics, detection, and mitigation is critical. This is where MITRE ATT&CK is especially useful.

Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is a protocol developed by Microsoft which at its core is designed to give users a graphical interface to a remote Windows computer over a network connection. The remote Windows machine runs an RDP server, while the local computer accessing it runs an RDP client. Windows comes bundled with Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection to easily access Windows hosts over RDP.