shieldfy/API-Security-Checklist
API Security Checklist
This project is a comprehensive API security audit checklist and vulnerability audit framework. It provides a structured guide of security countermeasures for designing, testing, and deploying secure APIs across various protocols.
The framework includes specialized guides for securing OAuth 2.0 authorization flows, implementing zero trust networking for service-to-service communication, and protecting GraphQL endpoints from resource exhaustion and information leakage. It also provides standards for integrating static analysis, dynamic scanning, and secret detection into CI/CD delivery pipelines.
The checklist covers a broad range of security capabilities, including authentication and identity verification, network access control, and API abuse prevention. It addresses traffic monitoring, secret management, request input validation, and the sanitization of API outputs.
Features
- Security Testing and Auditing - Provides a comprehensive framework and checklist for auditing API security during design and release.
- Layered Defense Strategies - Guides the implementation of layered defense strategies across network, authentication, and application logic.
- Vulnerability Auditing - Provides a structured approach to identify and mitigate security flaws across the API development lifecycle.
- Workflow Scanning - Defines standards for automating static and dynamic analysis within continuous delivery workflows.
- GraphQL Security - Provides specialized protections for GraphQL endpoints to prevent resource exhaustion and introspection leaks.
- OAuth Authentication - Provides countermeasures for securing OAuth 2.0 flows, including redirect URI validation and state parameters.
- Rate Limiting & Abuse Prevention - Provides countermeasures for mitigating denial of service and brute-force attacks through rate limiting and activity challenges.
- Request Validation Middleware - Implements request validation middleware to screen for correct HTTP methods and content types.
- CI/CD - Establishes standards for integrating static analysis, dynamic scanning, and secret detection into CI/CD pipelines.
- User Authentication Systems - Establishes standards for secure user authentication, password storage, and login retry limits.
- API Security Checklists - Ships a comprehensive security checklist for designing, testing, and deploying secure APIs across various protocols.
- Zero Trust Architectures - Defines an architectural model for verifying every service-to-service request regardless of network location.
- Zero Trust Networking - Enforces a zero-trust model for service-to-service communication via mutual TLS and request signing.
- Identity Verification - Specifies the use of OAuth flows and state parameters for cryptographic identity verification.
- Automated Code Review - Integrates automated security analysis and dependency scanning into the continuous delivery pipeline.
- HTTP Request Filtering - Provides standards for screening HTTP requests for method and content-type compliance to block injection attacks.
- Query Complexity Analysis - Implements complexity and depth analysis for GraphQL queries to prevent resource exhaustion.
- Response Sanitization - Defines standards for sanitizing API outputs to prevent server fingerprinting and information leakage.
- Application Logic Hardening - Provides guidelines for protecting internal logic using UUIDs and securing XML processing.
- Automated Secret Rotation - Provides a framework for automated secret rotation and lifecycle management of API keys.
- Network Access Control - Implements network access controls using TLS configurations, HSTS headers, and IP safelisting.
- Authorization Server Implementations - Defines security requirements for implementing authorization servers, including redirect URI validation and state parameters.
- Secrets and Credential Management - Provides a strategy for protecting credentials through regular rotation and secret scanning.
- Observability Pipelines - Provides architectural patterns for aggregating and routing API telemetry data through centralized observability pipelines.
- API Monitoring - Guides the tracking of API requests and responses using centralized logging and intrusion detection.
- Design Guidelines - Security-focused best practices for hardening RESTful API implementations.
- Platform and API Guidelines - Security countermeasures for designing and releasing APIs.
- Security Checklists - Security countermeasures for designing and releasing secure APIs.
- API Security - Comprehensive guide for implementing API security best practices.
- Application Security - Checklist for securing APIs during design and testing.
- Sécurité et confidentialité - Checklist for identifying and mitigating common API security risks.
- Security & Privacy - Security best practices for API development.
- Security Testing - Checklist for securing API implementations.
- Security Tools - Listed in the “Security Tools” section of the Awesome Hacking awesome list.
