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By AppSentinels
In September 2022, Australia woke up to the largest data breach in its history. Optus, the country’s second-largest telecom disclosed that the personal information of nearly 10 million people had been exposed. To put that in perspective, that’s almost 40% of the entire population. Among the data spilled were 2.1 million government-issued IDs – passports, driver’s licenses, Medicare cards – the kind of information that isn’t just sensitive, but life-defining.
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By AppSentinels
“Tech giants pay hackers millions to hack them – on purpose.” What once sounded like a risky experiment has now become standard practice in cybersecurity. Bug bounty programs have moved from the fringes into the mainstream because traditional defenses alone can’t keep up with today’s scale and sophistication of attacks.
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By AppSentinels
In today’s hyper-connected world, Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) have become one of the most critical layers in a modern security stack. As businesses shift more operations, data, and user experiences online, web apps and APIs are increasingly under siege – from basic bot scraping to sophisticated logic abuse and zero-day exploits.
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By AppSentinels
In 2022, Optus – a major Australian telecom – suffered a breach that exposed the data of over 11 million customers. The root cause? A single, unauthenticated API endpoint. What looked like a simple oversight turned into a nationwide scandal, regulatory fallout, and shattered consumer trust. Fast forward to 2025, and APIs have only grown more powerful – and more dangerous.
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By AppSentinels
Imagine an online retailer running a promotion: “Spend $100 this month, get a $25 gift card.” It sounds simple encourage loyal shoppers to spend more. But due to a flaw in the app’s logic, a clever user discovers a loophole. They place enough orders to reach the $100 threshold and receive the gift card. Then, they cancel a small order to drop below the threshold only to make a new one that pushes their total back over $100.
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By AppSentinels
In today’s threat landscape, enterprise security isn’t breached in the apparent places—it’s compromised in the seams. One of the most overlooked seams is the API gateway. While celebrated for its role in routing traffic and managing APIs, the API gateway has quietly become one of the most critical and exposed components in modern digital infrastructure.
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By AppSentinels
APIs are the connective tissue of the digital economy, silently enabling transactions, data exchanges, and automation across industries. Yet, as businesses rush to integrate APIs into every aspect of their operations, they often overlook a significant reality: APIs are rapidly becoming the most targeted attack vector in cybersecurity.
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By AppSentinels
OWASP’s API Security Cheat Sheet is a familiar resource for many cybersecurity leaders—often bookmarked, rarely reimagined. But what if this seemingly developer-focused reference held the blueprint for executive-level strategy? For CISOs and CFOs operating in the era of digital ecosystems and financial APIs, this cheat sheet is not just tactical guidance—it’s strategic armor.
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By AppSentinels
In today’s increasingly interconnected digital landscape, APIs have become the invisible backbone of organizational efficiency, enabling data sharing, automation, and business innovation with quiet efficiency. However, as APIs proliferate, so do the vulnerabilities and targeted attacks that threaten to disrupt operations, compromise sensitive information, and damage an organization’s reputation.
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By AppSentinels
REST APIs are the arteries of today’s digital ecosystems, silently exchanging data between countless applications, users, and devices. Yet, in the race to protect endpoints, authenticate users, and encrypt payloads, the security nuances of API responses are often overlooked. This oversight leaves a dangerous gap where attackers don’t need to break in; they simply listen, observe, and exploit what’s willingly given away.
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By AppSentinels
Preventing next generation applications against complex API and application attacks requires deep understanding of application behaviour, API structure, interaction and sequencing, understanding of user behaviour, contexts, and intents, flow of sensitive data in the application etc. Such deep understanding can only be achieved when a product is built grounds up to address the very needs of the next-generation applications.
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By AppSentinels
We are in an era of unprecedented connectivity and data growth. Data is being created and shared at the fastest pace ever. Organizations are adding new APIs to facilitate faster exchange of data. For security leaders and practitioners, this presents new and daunting challenges with the massive volume of data and new pathways to oversee, new threats to stay ahead of, and regulatory complexities to navigate. Security leaders must maintain visibility of data, manage user access to data, and enforce strong security and privacy controls.
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By AppSentinels
During our various customer interactions, we often discuss how Appsentinels solution is different compared to a Web Applicaton Firewall (WAF) in protecting against API's attack. The core difference is that Appsentinels API Security Platform knows the context of what is it protecting while unfortunately WAF's don't. Let me explain why I am saying this and why this is important.
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By AppSentinels
In the digital age, business leaders see software teams as core to the business and are demanding them to innovate faster in response to market and competitive demands. Organizations are on path of fast iteration - experimenting with new products or features, gauge customer feedback, adopt or drop and move to the next thing. The pace of change is not an option but existential for organizations. Organizations that can adapt will gain market shares and organizations that cannot, will cease to exist.
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By AppSentinels
In 2019, OWASP released first version of API Security Top 10. Like the omnipresent OWASP Top 10, the API Security Top 10 delivers a prioritized list of the most critical application security issues with a focus on the APIs. In this whitepaper, we would like to share an overview of the API top 10 with comparisons to the OWASP top 10 for web applications and break any false sense of security by seeing similarities in the list.
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By AppSentinels
During our various customer interactions, customers using Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) or Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) often ask how AppSentinels solution is different compared to their existing tool: The core difference is AppSentinels API Security Platform understands the context of the Application it is protecting while DAST/IAST products unfortunately don't. Let me explain why I am saying this and why this is important.
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We’re a group of security and technology experts with a mission to fix gaps in application security. Our team comes with stellar record of building enterprise grade security products that were loved by customers and won accolades in various industry forums.
Full Life-cycle API Security Platform:
- Discover and Catalogue All APIs: AppSentinels continuously discovers all APIs and various attributes about the APIs to bring you complete visibility of all your API assets.
- Discover Sensitive Data: AppSentinels track each instance of sensitive and PII data, across all your APIs, to bring you complete visibility of your sensitive data exposure and help you reduce your risk and accelerate compliance audits.
- Protect against API attacks: AppSentinels provides industry’s most comprehensive protection against all unknown and known API attacks via it’s multi-layer defence shield.
- Shifts-Left API Testing: AppSentinels shift-left deep learning of the Application vulnerabilities and actively tests APIs in organization’s CI/CD pipeline to find application security issues including business logic exploits early in cycle via industry’s first Intelligent Stateful DAST.
- Rapid Incident Response: AppSentinels uses application, and traffic fingerprinting to correlate all events and map those to users or groups behind the attack. This provide SecOps team comprehensive view of all attacker activity and allows them to respond with accuracy and confidence.
- Streamline Compliance Efforts: AppSentinels with it’s API inventory, PII & sensitive data and complete log of all API communication has all the data needed to meet requirements of compliance or regulation standards like PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR etc.
Application Security, Reinvented.