Top API risks and how to mitigate them

APIs are often used by enterprises to allow communication between in-house applications, which can sometimes lead to security vulnerabilities that could risk sensitive data. Top API risks arise from publishing and consuming APIs, with issues such as bad or weak authentication, bad authorisation, denial-of-service attacks, server-side request forgery, malicious inputs, data oversharing and API dependency. Proper mitigation with strong authentication modules, comprehensive testing and well-constructed defensive measures can help combat these risks.