Web security and performance are tightly linked aspects of any web application: It’s impossible to achieve strong security on an underperforming infrastructure.

In the next API Security Top 10 list, I expect the nomenclature to align, though I don’t expect similar positioning because of the (obvious) differences between APIs and web apps.

What does this API security really mean inside? API became a standard for the modern web during the post-iPhone epoch — to be more concrete, the post-AppStore epoch. Two main drivers — the ...

Traditional and legacy web security approaches, like WAFs and API gateways, were never designed to protect against modern logic-based vulnerabilities, he added.

Cloudflare launches API Shield, a new service to protect web APIs against attacks.

With increased API security breaches in the United States, it should be no surprise that Google searches related to web security are on the rise.

These threats are compounded by the fact that traditional security tools - web application firewalls (WAFs) or API gateways, for example - cannot adequately protect APIs from abuse.

Take advantage of authentication and authorization, API keys, rate limiting, CORS, API versioning, and other recommended practices to build secure and robust APIs in ASP.NET Core.

Take advantage of security headers in ASP.NET Core MVC 5 to protect your website against cross-site scripting, code injection, clickjacking, and other attacks.