API-Security vs MiscSecNotes

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API-Security		MiscSecNotes
	Project
15	Mentions	1
1,933	Stars	765
1.8%	Growth	-
6.2	Activity	4.2
11 days ago	Latest Commit	2 months ago
Dockerfile	Language
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

API-Security

Posts with mentions or reviews of API-Security. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-14.

What's the problem with my API?
2 projects | dev.to | 14 May 2023

Check the top 10 API security by OWASP
Quick Privacy Question
2 projects | /r/leagueoflegends | 13 Jan 2023

In the end this is a security oversight known as excessive data exposure (OWASP - API3:2019) of Riot and as long as they keep sending this info people will be able to see it.
Implementing decent security
1 project | /r/FastAPI | 15 Dec 2022

Check out ----, https://github.com/OWASP/API-Security
API without authentication severity?
1 project | /r/redteamsec | 9 Sep 2022

If incorrect API authentication mechanisms implementation considered as Broken User Authentication, how severe the one without authentication at all? Critical? or high?
Feedbak for an article on API Security Maturity Model+
2 projects | /r/api | 25 Jul 2022

The OWASP top 10 API security risks are posted on their GitHub here. As OWASP shows, because APIs are open to the network:
API10:2019 - Insufficient Logging & Monitoring
1 project | dev.to | 19 Mar 2022

More cases and prevention methods can be found on the OWASP API Security Top 10 official repository
API9:2019 - Improper Assets Management
1 project | dev.to | 5 Mar 2022
API8:2019 - Injection
1 project | dev.to | 26 Feb 2022
API7:2019 - Security Misconfiguration
1 project | dev.to | 19 Feb 2022

OWASP API-Security repo
API6:2019 - Mass Assignment
1 project | dev.to | 11 Feb 2022

MiscSecNotes

Posts with mentions or reviews of MiscSecNotes. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-29.

I'm preparing for the interview and I've curated a list of resources that might be helpful for you also.
20 projects | /r/netsecstudents | 29 Nov 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing API-Security and MiscSecNotes you can also consider the following projects:

API-Security-Checklist - Checklist of the most important security countermeasures when designing, testing, and releasing your API

wstg - The Web Security Testing Guide is a comprehensive Open Source guide to testing the security of web applications and web services.

Application-Security-Engineer-Interview-Questions - Some of the questions which i was asked when i was giving interviews for Application/Product Security roles. I am sure this is not an exhaustive list but i felt these questions were important to be asked and some were challenging to answer

bugbounty-cheatsheet - A list of interesting payloads, tips and tricks for bug bounty hunters.

Security_Engineer_Interview_Questions - Every Security Engineer Interview Question From Glassdoor.com

offensiveinterview - Interview questions to screen offensive (red team/pentest) candidates

Interview_Tips - Summary of Cyber Security interview questions I have been through, hope this helps

sec-interview - 信息安全面试题汇总