api-security-hardening

API Security Hardening

Table of Contents

• Overview
• When to Use
• Quick Start
• Reference Guides
• Best Practices

Overview

Implement comprehensive API security measures including authentication, authorization, rate limiting, input validation, and attack prevention to protect against common vulnerabilities.

When to Use

• New API development
• Security audit remediation
• Production API hardening
• Compliance requirements
• High-traffic API protection
• Public API exposure

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

// secure-api.js - Comprehensive API security
const express = require("express");
const

Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:

Best Practices

✅ DO

• Use HTTPS everywhere
• Implement rate limiting
• Validate all inputs
• Use security headers
• Log security events
• Implement CORS properly
• Use strong authentication
• Version your APIs

❌ DON'T

• Expose stack traces
• Return detailed errors
• Trust user input
• Use HTTP for APIs
• Skip input validation
• Ignore rate limiting