Before understanding the best practices we should first understand why it is important for developers to keep APIs the secure. This is because: Go ahead and check my next blog that cover each…

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This post provides a high-level checklist for developers to securely develop APIs, covering all OWASP Top 10 API security issues. It emphasizes the importance of secure APIs and the risks they pose. The checklist includes recommendations for broken object-level authorization, broken authentication, excessive data exposure, lack of resources and rate limiting, broken function level authorization, mass assignment, security misconfiguration, injection, improper assets management, and insufficient logging and monitoring.

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Interesting to keep improving in this area, I will also recommend learning how the internet works a little bit more, reading also about TCP/IP and OSI model.

Session word is confusing in this article for stateless APIs. The session word has been removed from the OWASP source page: <a href="https://github.com/OWASP/API-Security/commit/99ef37366b4c6b10f96061e4b5774c1a3203e769" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://github.com/OWASP/API-Security/commit/99ef37366b4c6b10f96061e4b5774c1a3203e769</a>