Projects sharing features with API Security Checklist

Dex is an OpenID Connect identity provider that functions as an identity federation gateway. It authenticates users and issues signed tokens for applications by using a variety of pluggable connectors to interface with external identity sources. The project focuses on federating multiple external identity providers into a single authentication portal. It maps diverse external authentication sources to a uniform internal user representation and manages the orchestration of authorization handshakes between clients and identity sources. Capability areas include centralized user authentication,

Security-101 is a vendor-agnostic, foundational cybersecurity learning curriculum organized into modular, framework-aligned modules. It is designed to build core knowledge across multiple security domains without tying content to specific products or platforms, making it suitable for both beginners and professionals seeking a structured introduction to the field. The curriculum is built around established security frameworks, including the MITRE ATT&CK framework for standardized threat analysis and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework for incident response workflows. It covers a broad range of do

ZeroTierOne is a software-defined networking engine that creates virtual local area networks by emulating Ethernet switches across distributed devices. It functions as a peer-to-peer platform, establishing encrypted tunnels directly between endpoints to bypass the need for centralized gateways or hub-and-spoke architectures. The system distinguishes itself through a decentralized approach to network discovery and identity management. By utilizing a distributed hash table and public key infrastructure, it authenticates devices and maps virtual addresses to physical endpoints without relying on

Netmaker is a platform for automating and managing virtual mesh networks built on WireGuard. It functions as a centralized control plane that orchestrates encrypted, peer-to-peer tunnels across distributed infrastructure, including cloud environments, on-premise data centers, and containerized clusters. By automating the configuration of routing tables and access policies, the system enables secure, private connectivity between diverse devices and services without requiring manual network administration. The platform distinguishes itself through its focus on zero-trust network access and soft

Ziti is a zero-trust network overlay and identity-based mesh network. It provides a software-defined perimeter that replaces traditional IP-based routing and VPNs by mapping network services to cryptographically verified identities, effectively cloaking applications from the public internet. The project distinguishes itself through an outbound-only connection model that eliminates open listening ports and a Zero Trust SDK that allows developers to embed encryption and identity-based access control directly into application source code. It also provides transparent tunneling proxies to extend

The Web Application Security Testing Guide is an open-source security testing standard and comprehensive framework of procedures for identifying vulnerabilities in web applications and services. It serves as a vulnerability assessment methodology and a web API security audit framework, providing a structured approach for conducting consistent and thorough security audits of web-based software. The project utilizes a methodology-based audit framework and checklist-driven workflows to ensure repeatable discovery and exploitation steps. It organizes security tests through taxonomy-based vulnerab

InsForge is a backend-as-a-service platform that provides an integrated suite of tools for managing relational databases, identity provision, object storage, and serverless compute. It functions as an open-source identity provider and a PostgreSQL database manager featuring integrated vector storage and row-level security. The platform serves as an LLM orchestration gateway, offering a unified endpoint to route requests across various AI providers through an OpenAI-compatible interface. It enables AI-driven application generation and connects AI agents to backend resources using a standardize

Hydra is a headless identity server that functions as a certified OAuth2 and OpenID Connect provider. It is designed as an authentication engine that manages authorization handshakes and token lifecycles while remaining decoupled from the user interface. The project distinguishes itself through a headless architecture, allowing external management of login and consent flows. It provides specialized capabilities for dynamic client registration, JSON Web Token issuance, and a system for rotating encryption secrets without service downtime. The system covers a broad range of identity operations

Hacker101 is a cybersecurity education platform and web security training portal. It serves as a structured collection of lessons and resources designed to teach students about vulnerability research and penetration testing through guided modules. The platform operates as a static site generator and markdown-based content manager. It uses plain text files with structured metadata to define the hierarchy and properties of educational lessons, transforming this content into pre-rendered HTML files for delivery. The curriculum covers a broad domain of security education, including specialized c

This project is a comprehensive, curated directory of cybersecurity resources, software, and documentation designed to support system and network protection. It serves as a centralized knowledge base and index for security professionals, aggregating industry-standard practices and open-source tools across a wide range of technical domains. The repository distinguishes itself by providing a structured collection of methodologies and frameworks for security operations. It covers critical areas including threat intelligence, digital forensics, infrastructure auditing, and vulnerability assessmen

Pangolin is a zero-trust remote access platform designed to provide secure, identity-aware connectivity to private network resources. It functions as a cloud-native network controller that orchestrates encrypted tunnels, traffic routing, and access policies across distributed environments. By leveraging WireGuard for secure data transport, the platform enables authenticated access to internal web applications, terminal sessions, and remote desktops without exposing services to the public internet. The platform distinguishes itself through a declarative infrastructure model that synchronizes n

Authboss is a modular HTTP authentication framework for managing user identity, session lifecycles, and password security. It provides a system of identity access middleware to control route access and synchronize user identity across requests via standard web protocols. The framework is distinguished by a pluggable architecture that allows for the registration of independent modules to extend identity logic. It utilizes a hook-based event system to execute custom business logic during authentication state changes and employs a selector-verifier token pattern to protect against timing attacks

This project is a suite of automated tools and an LLM code review framework designed for design auditing, security scanning, and AI-driven code analysis. It functions as a developer workflow orchestrator that uses static analysis agents and agent-based workflows to automate pull request analysis and security audits. The system employs a dual-loop agent architecture to coordinate primary analysis and secondary verification, reducing false positives. It distinguishes itself through the use of browser automation to perform live UI component testing and verify frontend changes against accessibili

Deepagents is an LLM agent orchestration platform and stateful application server designed for deploying and managing AI agents built with computational graphs. It provides a containerized runtime environment that handles agent execution, state persistence, and the versioning of AI assistants. The platform distinguishes itself through deep integration with the Model Context Protocol, allowing agents to function as servers that expose tools and capabilities to external clients. It features a sophisticated observability suite for capturing execution traces, performing LLM-based evaluations agai

Cosmos-Server is a self-hosted server platform that combines an authentication gateway, a reverse proxy with dynamic rate limiting, and a Docker container orchestrator into a single management interface. It provides automatic HTTPS certificate management with wildcard support through DNS challenges, and secures self-hosted applications with token-based session management and plugin-based authentication middleware. The platform distinguishes itself by integrating these capabilities into a unified system where the reverse proxy enforces authentication, rate limiting, and TLS termination before

NetBird is a zero-trust networking platform that builds secure, encrypted peer-to-peer overlay networks using the WireGuard protocol. It functions as a software-defined perimeter, connecting distributed infrastructure across cloud environments and physical locations while hiding network resources from the public internet. By integrating with external identity providers, the platform enforces granular access control and identity-based segmentation for every user and device. The platform distinguishes itself through extensive automation and programmatic management capabilities. It provides a ce

This project is a comprehensive, curated directory of static analysis, linting, and security scanning utilities. It serves as a central resource for developers to discover, compare, and select tools based on specific programming languages, licensing models, and integration requirements. The directory distinguishes itself by providing deep metadata for each listed utility, including community-driven popularity rankings, maintenance status, and deployment methods. By aggregating these tools into a single searchable index, it enables teams to identify solutions for enforcing coding standards, ma

GraphQL-Ruby is a Ruby library for building GraphQL APIs with a strongly typed schema and a dedicated query execution engine. It provides a comprehensive framework for mapping application objects to a formal type system, enabling structured data fetching through defined resolvers. The project distinguishes itself with advanced performance and delivery mechanisms, including a data loader for batching and caching to prevent N+1 query patterns. It supports high-performance data delivery through incremental response streaming, deferred query responses, and parallel data fetching using fibers. Add

This project provides a comprehensive, modular framework for auditing and hardening personal digital and physical security. It functions as a structured, platform-agnostic knowledge base that breaks down complex security standards into granular, actionable tasks. By utilizing a static documentation architecture, the project ensures that its guidance remains accessible and transparent, allowing users to track their security posture incrementally through a persistent, manual progress-tracking system. The project distinguishes itself by bridging the gap between digital cybersecurity and physical

Zizmor is a security linter and static analysis tool designed to audit GitHub Actions workflow files. It functions as a CI/CD security scanner that identifies security vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and software supply chain risks within automation pipelines. The project distinguishes itself by providing an automated workflow remediator that applies security fixes to identified vulnerabilities. It also implements a language server for integration with code editors and supports a variety of analysis personas to scale the sensitivity and volume of reported findings. The tool covers a broa

Kilocode is an autonomous engineering platform designed to orchestrate AI agents for complex software development tasks. It functions as a comprehensive system for automating coding, testing, and repository management by integrating directly with your codebase and terminal. The platform provides a unified gateway for model orchestration, allowing for the management of agentic workflows, event-driven automation, and persistent session state across distributed development environments. The platform distinguishes itself through its federated task management and policy-based access control, which

This project is a web application security guide and developer training resource. It serves as a secure coding framework and vulnerability remediation manual, providing software engineers with the tools to identify, prioritize, and fix common security holes across different application layers. The resource utilizes a structured verification framework and security audit checklists to systematically find vulnerabilities. It features a technical reference that maps specific security flaws to step-by-step instructions for remediation, supported by vulnerability statistics to help determine which

Mimikatz is a security research suite designed for auditing Windows authentication and managing system security configurations. It provides a comprehensive framework for extracting sensitive credentials, manipulating process privileges, and managing digital identity assets directly from system memory or offline memory dumps. The project distinguishes itself through advanced system-level exploitation techniques, including runtime process injection, API hooking, and the ability to bypass cryptographic export restrictions. It features a specialized toolkit for Kerberos protocol operations, allow

This project provides a framework for managing multi-agent systems, designed to automate complex software development, infrastructure, and business workflows. It functions as a multi-agent workflow orchestrator that routes tasks to domain-specific workers while maintaining state persistence and infrastructure automation. By leveraging large language models, the system decomposes high-level objectives into actionable plans, ensuring that complex operations are executed with consistency and reliability. The framework distinguishes itself through its hierarchical agent registry and policy-driven

This project is a service mesh platform designed to manage, secure, and observe service-to-service communication within Kubernetes clusters. It functions as a control plane that orchestrates transparent sidecar proxies, which intercept and manage network traffic to provide reliable connectivity for microservices. By automating the injection of these proxies, the platform ensures that infrastructure-level policies are applied consistently across all workloads without requiring manual configuration changes. The platform distinguishes itself through its focus on zero-trust security and cross-clu