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Every payment flow your organization runs, from card authorization to ACH transfers to embedded lending to open banking consent, is now an API call. That’s good for velocity. It’s also why payment APIs sit at the top of the attack surface for financial services and enterprise SaaS platforms handling money movement.
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APIs are now the primary attack surface for most applications. Industry research consistently shows that the large majority of organizations have experienced an API security issue in the past year, and a significant share have delayed a rollout because of API security concerns.
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By AppSentinels
Every enterprise security leader is being asked the same question by their board: are we secure against AI risk? Most cannot answer it with confidence, and the reason is rarely a lack of tools. It is a lack of visibility. AI has spread through enterprises faster than almost any technology before it. Developers wire large language model APIs into internal tools. Business teams stand up copilots and chat assistants. Data science teams build retrieval pipelines against customer and financial data.
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By AppSentinels
An Australian man named Andrew asked his personal AI agent, built on the open-source OpenClaw framework and powered by Anthropic’s Claude model, to book him into a popular morning gym class. According to ABC News, the class was full, so the agent started looking for a way around that. It found that the gym’s booking API let bookings be pushed far further into the future than the website’s own interface allowed, a limit that turned out to exist only on the front end.
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By AppSentinels
If you’re evaluating API discovery tools right now, you’ve probably already seen a handful of demos that look nearly identical: a clean dashboard, an inventory count, maybe a risk score. What’s harder to see in a 30-minute demo is whether that inventory reflects what’s actually running in production, or just what the vendor’s connectors happened to catch on setup day.
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By AppSentinels
Most coverage of software supply chain attacks focuses on the entry point: the poisoned package, the compromised maintainer account, the malicious commit. That’s the part that makes headlines, but it’s rarely the part that causes the damage. A malicious package sitting on a developer’s machine doesn’t exfiltrate anything by itself.
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By AppSentinels
Framework choice isn’t really about syntax or GitHub stars. It’s a multi-year commitment that shapes architecture, team habits, hiring, and how painful your next migration will be. Frameworks decide your architecture by default, whether you choose it or not. Some frameworks default to synchronous request handling; others assume non-blocking IO from day one. Some nudge you toward a monolith; others push you toward services that split naturally.
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By AppSentinels
Prompt injection in a standard LLM interaction produces bad output. The model says something it shouldn’t. The damage stays contained to text. Prompt injection in an MCP environment is a different problem. Agents built on the Model Context Protocol don’t just generate responses. They call tools. They write files, query databases, send emails, execute code, invoke APIs.
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By AppSentinels
API discovery has become a foundational capability for modern enterprises as API ecosystems expand across cloud-native applications, microservices, SaaS integrations, partner APIs, and AI-powered workflows. By 2027, 78% of applications are expected to use APIs, and with that growth comes an urgent need for visibility that goes far beyond simply listing endpoints.
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By AppSentinels
An agent reads a file, approves its own next action, and the change survives the session. That one design choice, repeated across nearly every AI coding tool built in the last eighteen months, is the reason this keeps happening.
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By AppSentinels
Preventing next generation applications against complex API and application attacks requires deep understanding of application behaviour, API structure, interaction and sequencing, understanding of user behaviour, contexts, and intents, flow of sensitive data in the application etc. Such deep understanding can only be achieved when a product is built grounds up to address the very needs of the next-generation applications.
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By AppSentinels
We are in an era of unprecedented connectivity and data growth. Data is being created and shared at the fastest pace ever. Organizations are adding new APIs to facilitate faster exchange of data. For security leaders and practitioners, this presents new and daunting challenges with the massive volume of data and new pathways to oversee, new threats to stay ahead of, and regulatory complexities to navigate. Security leaders must maintain visibility of data, manage user access to data, and enforce strong security and privacy controls.
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By AppSentinels
During our various customer interactions, we often discuss how Appsentinels solution is different compared to a Web Applicaton Firewall (WAF) in protecting against API's attack. The core difference is that Appsentinels API Security Platform knows the context of what is it protecting while unfortunately WAF's don't. Let me explain why I am saying this and why this is important.
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By AppSentinels
In the digital age, business leaders see software teams as core to the business and are demanding them to innovate faster in response to market and competitive demands. Organizations are on path of fast iteration - experimenting with new products or features, gauge customer feedback, adopt or drop and move to the next thing. The pace of change is not an option but existential for organizations. Organizations that can adapt will gain market shares and organizations that cannot, will cease to exist.
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By AppSentinels
In 2019, OWASP released first version of API Security Top 10. Like the omnipresent OWASP Top 10, the API Security Top 10 delivers a prioritized list of the most critical application security issues with a focus on the APIs. In this whitepaper, we would like to share an overview of the API top 10 with comparisons to the OWASP top 10 for web applications and break any false sense of security by seeing similarities in the list.
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By AppSentinels
During our various customer interactions, customers using Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) or Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) often ask how AppSentinels solution is different compared to their existing tool: The core difference is AppSentinels API Security Platform understands the context of the Application it is protecting while DAST/IAST products unfortunately don't. Let me explain why I am saying this and why this is important.
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We’re a group of security and technology experts with a mission to fix gaps in application security. Our team comes with stellar record of building enterprise grade security products that were loved by customers and won accolades in various industry forums.
Full Life-cycle API Security Platform:
- Discover and Catalogue All APIs: AppSentinels continuously discovers all APIs and various attributes about the APIs to bring you complete visibility of all your API assets.
- Discover Sensitive Data: AppSentinels track each instance of sensitive and PII data, across all your APIs, to bring you complete visibility of your sensitive data exposure and help you reduce your risk and accelerate compliance audits.
- Protect against API attacks: AppSentinels provides industry’s most comprehensive protection against all unknown and known API attacks via it’s multi-layer defence shield.
- Shifts-Left API Testing: AppSentinels shift-left deep learning of the Application vulnerabilities and actively tests APIs in organization’s CI/CD pipeline to find application security issues including business logic exploits early in cycle via industry’s first Intelligent Stateful DAST.
- Rapid Incident Response: AppSentinels uses application, and traffic fingerprinting to correlate all events and map those to users or groups behind the attack. This provide SecOps team comprehensive view of all attacker activity and allows them to respond with accuracy and confidence.
- Streamline Compliance Efforts: AppSentinels with it’s API inventory, PII & sensitive data and complete log of all API communication has all the data needed to meet requirements of compliance or regulation standards like PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR etc.
Application Security, Reinvented.