API security has been a growing concern for years. However, while it was always seen as important, it often came second to application security or hardening infrastructure.  In 2025, the picture ...

Clearly, REST (Representational State Transfer) is winning the web service protocol debate. What was once a grass-roots movement has proliferated inside the enterprise and out. As of January 2010, ...

Think of a REST API like a waiter in a restaurant. You (an app) tell the waiter what you want (your request), and the waiter goes to the kitchen (the server) to get it for you. REST is just a set of ...

Most API vulnerabilities are fast, remote, and easy to exploit. Attackers take full advantage of these attributes.

The key difference between the terms REST versus RESTful is that REST refers to a philosophy about the architecture and design of web services, while the term RESTful refers to any API that properly ...

Almost a year ago, Gartner's analysts predicted API security as a significant cybersecurity threat in 2022. They wrote, "Gartner predicts that by 2022, application programming interface (API) attacks ...

There is no sanctioning body or open source linter that can verify if a RESTful API conforms and complies with all applicable REST API naming conventions and best practices. However, REST API ...