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You can now upgrade your Akto account to our new usage-based pricing model, offering you greater flexibility and value.

10 best Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions that filter and monitor web traffic, blocking malicious hackers before they can attack.

10 Best RASP Solutions that continuously monitor software applications to Identify and protect against threats in real time.

Code Security helps to identify and resolve security vulnerabilities in the source code, design, and architecture of software applications.

Vulnerability Assessment is the process of identifying and ranking potential security flaws in an organization's system based on their severity.

Security Management is the process of protecting an organization's assets from internal, external, and cyber attacks.

Akto has been featured in 2 of Gartner’s Hype Cycle Reports - for APIs and Application Security and here’s why this matters.

An API gateway manages incoming API requests and directs them based on factors such as request path, headers, and query parameters, while covering the internal structure of the application.

A data protection policy comprises the rules and guidelines an organization follows to ensure compliance with data protection laws.

A security champion serves as an extension of the security team and ensures that security is evenly distributed among development teams.

Security debt refers to the increase in minor issues or flaws in an organization's software system, which makes it tougher for the organization to keep its information and systems safe from hackers.

Security requirements illustrate the specific procedures, controls, and safeguards that protect an organization's sensitive data from cyber threats and data breaches.

Explore the must-have features that ensure the application maintains availability, stability, integrity, and confidentiality while minimizing the risk of vulnerabilities and security threats.

Shift Level testing helps quickly identify and fix bugs by integrating testing activities earlier in the entire software development lifecycle.

The software development life cycle integrates security measures throughout the development process to address vulnerabilities and protect the organization's sensitive data.

An Application Security Program uses various policies, procedures, and technical measures to protect the organization's software applications from potential security risks and vulnerabilities.

Explore the 10 cybersecurity training courses providing learners with essential skills on how to identify, handle and manage threats, through flexible formats and comprehensive curriculum.

A security review is a process that thoroughly examines the system or a software application for potential weaknesses and vulnerabilities, and improves the safety of the system.

An API Security Audit evaluates APIs, identifies potential risks, and strengthens the organization's defenses against security breaches and cyber-attacks.

The NIST Cybersecurity framework provides organizations with a set of standards, guidelines, and practices to develop strong cybersecurity practices for managing cybersecurity risks effectively.

The OWASP Risk Rating Methodology assigns a rating to the identified risks by considering the likelihood of the risk and its potential impact on the organization.

The Cyber Resilience Act ensures the safety of the organization's digital world from online dangers like hackers, including threats like SQL injection and XSS.

OWASP SAMM (Software Assurance Maturity Model) enhances the security posture of organizations by reducing vulnerabilities and safeguarding sensitive data from cyber threats.

NIST 800-53 is a framework providing security and privacy controls to safeguard sensitive information and creating a culture of security awareness in organizations.

LockBit Ransomware is a malicious software that hackers use to encrypt files and threaten organizations with the deletion or leakage of the files if they do not pay the ransom.

Trello's Data Breach exposed 15 million email addresses of users due to an unsecured API.

Twilio's data breach exposed 33 million Authy user phone numbers because of an unauthenticated endpoint.

Dynamic White Box Testing is a strategy in which the tester is aware of the internal structure of the application under test.

Black Box Testing is a methodology where the internal workings of the system under test are unknown to the tester.

ZAP DAST secures your web applications during runtime from security vulnerabilities by mimicking the actions of a malicious attacker.

GitHub DAST protects your web applications from security vulnerabilities by simulating attacks on web applications while it is running.

Burp Suite DAST protects your web applications from security vulnerabilities by simulating the actions of a malicious attacker.

Tenable DAST is a tool designed to protect modern applications including those reliant on javascript and AJAX frameworks from online threats.

Rapid7 DAST is a tool that analyzes web applications to identify potential security vulnerabilities.

Qualys DAST is a tool that checks running applications from outside to inspect security flaws.

Snyk DAST examines your applications in real-time from outside to find possible security issues.

DAST Gartner protects your applications from security vulnerabilities by simulating attacks in real time.

OWASP DAST is a tool designed to uncover security flaws in your live application by simulating external attacks.

Synopsys DAST or WhiteHat DAST secures your running web applications from potential vulnerabilities by simulating real-world attacks.

Invicti DAST is a tool designed to identify security vulnerabilities in websites and web applications by simulating real-world attacks.

Fortify DAST secures your deployed web applications and services from potential vulnerabilities by simulating attacks.

Veracode DAST simulates external attacks to check your web applications and APIs for security vulnerabilities.

Checkmarx DAST examines your live web applications and APIs for security issues by mimicking real-world attacks.

GitLab DAST is a tool that simulates attacks on your web applications to protect them from potential security issues.

The Gartner Market Guide on API Protection reveals top insights on the market direction and tools that you should be using in your DevSecOps pipeline.

This edition of Akto’s newsletter talks about improvements to API inventory dashboard, deploying Akto on a Hybrid SaaS Model and much more

With this single screen, managing user configurations becomes more streamlined and efficient. By providing visibility into all user settings and configurations in one place, Akto empowers you to carry out API security testing more effectively and accurately.

Akto has developed a test template to secure these APIs against Mass Assignment vulnerabilities. See how to test for this using Akto’s Test Editor.

You can now deploy Akto on a Hybrid SaaS Model! This model allows you to take advantage of the scalability and cost-efficiency of SaaS while retaining control over specific aspects of your software environment.

Akto had an incredible round of conferences, talks, and workshops in April and May! Here are some highlights from our experience.

This edition of Akto’s newsletter talks about changes to your dashboard and tests that think about your API Security Testing from a 360-degree view.

Akto now lets you conduct API Security testing based on the Access Type of an API Endpoint.

This edition of Akto’s newsletter is packed with new features and tests that will greatly decrease your API Security testing time and increase targeted testing.

Akto now replays APIs to automatically get data during an import of Postman and Swagger files and transparently displays reasons why each specific API couldn't be replayed in the case of an error.

Akto has introduced new tests across several categories including BOLA, Broken Authentication, Unrestricted Resource Consumption, BFLA, and SSRF that you can explore with Akto’s Test Editor.

Akto has introduced new features related to Improper Inventory Management that allow you to organize your inventory with tags and recognize hidden APIs to better your security testing.

Akto now uses dynamic wordlists to perform targeted API Security testing that significantly decreases test times and reduces false positives.

This guide provides an overview of 34 of the most popular and respected cybersecurity certifications. We have organized them by career stage and specialism, so you can easily find the ones that are most relevant to you.

Roku revealed a data breach that affected more than 15,000 customers for unauthorized purchases of hardware and streaming subscriptions.

This is the February product newsletter for Akto. This month, we launched some exciting features, including Akto’s Istio Traffic Connector, Sensitive Data Detection in URLs and more.

Akto now simplifies the process of detecting sensitive data types in URLs in an automated way from our pre-existing repository of regular expressions so that your development teams can instantly resolve the vulnerabilities. See how!

In API security, authorization tests involve checking if the access control measures in place are working effectively. So it’s important for you to test for the eventuality of this vulnerability by using the authorization tokens of different ‘roles’, and you can do this with Akto.

The attackers exploited open redirect requests associated with FCKeditor, a web text editor that used to be popular.

Explore the key features and effective implementation of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0. This comprehensive guide provides insights on managing cybersecurity risks in organizations of all sizes and sectors.

Uncover top API vulnerabilities and CVEs from 2023 including CVE-2023-35078, CVE-2023-23752 and CVE-2023-49103.

Prompt injection in Large Language Models (LLMs) is a security attack technique where malicious instructions are inserted into a prompt, leading the LLM to unintentionally perform actions that may include revealing sensitive information, executing unauthorized actions, or manipulating its output.

LLM security involves protecting AI systems like ChatGPT, Bard from potential risks such as biased outputs, malicious use and maintaining privacy in their applications.

This blog is about "Insecure Output Handling" that pertains to the potential risk that may arise when the content generated by an LLM is not adequately sanitized or filtered prior to being presented to the end user.

Today, We launched Akto's GenAI Security Testing solution, an unparalleled automated approach that directly addresses LLM Security challenges. The solution is currently in closed beta.

This marks Akto's first newsletter of 2024! We’ve added 70+ Authentication and Authorization tests, making our Test Editor more versatile than ever, enabled Github CI/CD comment and checks, revamped our UI and much more.

On 18th Jan, 2024, Akto hosted a Webinar on API Security in DevSecOps with Joe Gerber, VP Appsec at Wells-Fargo.

A comprehensive guide to SQL Injection vulnerabilities, techniques, and examples. Learn how to exploit different databases and bypass WAF.

Users can now view all their usage metrics within the Akto dashboard. This feature also allows us to show limits as per Akto plans on the pricing page.

This blog walks you through how to import Open API and Swagger spec files to Akto.

Cloudflare's security breach highlights the importance of regular credential rotations and proactive security measures to protect against data breaches.

This blog is a guide that provides best practices and techniques for preventing SQL Injection, which is a common web application vulnerability where an attacker can manipulate SQL queries in order to gain unauthorized access to a database. Learn more about SQL Injection.

The Trello API breach exposed email links of 15M accounts. The breach highlights the need for strong rate limiting, authentication, and security assessments to protect user data.

Staying updated in cybersecurity is crucial. Attending Appsec cybersecurity events can help you expand your knowledge. Here are the top 10 Appsec events in the US for 2024. Stay ahead in Appsec with these must-attend events.

A comprehensive guide on the top 10 API security best practices, covering authentication, encryption, testing, and vulnerability prevention.

The OWASP Top 10 for API 2023 is the latest list released by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). In this blog you will learn what are these top 10 API vulnerabilities and how to protect your APIs against them.

Exploring the recent zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure and Policy Secure, and the recommended mitigations for affected organizations.

In this blog, you will learn about the top 7 trends in API Security in 2024 - API Security as a Core Part of DevSecOps, AI driven API Security and more.

Our December newsletter about Akto on AWS marketplace, and major product updates such as Jira and swagger integration, improved SSO capabilities and support on CosmosDB and DocumentDB.

You can now send all your findings from Akto to Jira and tag developers to each finding.

CVE tagging provides a simple, unique identifier (CVE ID) for each vulnerability, making it easy to access and remediate issues as soon as possible. Read the blog to learn more about CVE tagging in Akto.

You can now deploy Akto using Helm Charts in Kubernetes. Read this blog to learn how to do it and the significance of Helm Chart deployment.

You can now configure test run time, view customized test results and add severity based deployment block in CI/CD and CLI testing. Read to learn more.

Learn how to set custom webhook alerts in any app of your choice through Akto.

We are proud to announce that Akto is now HIPAA compliant!

This is Akto's November newsletter blog. This month we bring to you exciting updates on our new Academy resource, community, HIPAA compliance, features, and more.

500 million LinkedIn profiles are being offered for sale on a well-known hacker forum, and an additional 2 million records have been leaked as a sample.

In early October 2023, the genomics and biotechnology company 23andMe faced a substantial data breach. Read on to see the attack details and prevention.

This blog is the third monthly newsletter for Akto. Akto's API security newsletter talks about LLM Security beta program, new features launches and lots of exciting updates on events.

Akto is doing a roadshow from October 19 to 30th in 4 cities - San Francisco, Los Angeles, Irvine and Washington DC. Join us for hands on workshops, dinners and talks on API Security, LLM Security and DevSecOps.

This blog is the second monthly newsletter for Akto. Akto's API security newsletter talks about beta program, new features launches and upcoming events.

You can now run Akto tests directly from the Command-Line Interface (CLI). Akto tests in CLI brings the functionality of Akto into your development workflow.

Developers and security teams crave a standardized frame of reference for vulnerabilities. CWE bridges the knowledge gap and provides much-needed context.

Login using GitHub is now available to all On premise users

XML Injection is a type of attack that targets web applications that generate XML content. Attackers use malicious code to exploit vulnerabilities in XML parsers to manipulate the content of an XML document.

Added autocomplete, syntax error highlighting and examples snippets in YAML test editor

In order to improve collaboration and help security teams share finding reports amongst each other and developers, we have released a feature called Export as HTML.

This blog is the first monthly newsletter for Akto, open source API Security in CI/CD. We have exciting updates to share with you, including new product features and highlights, upcoming events, and recommended readings.

This blog is about Akto's first episode of the API Security podcast. Avinash Jain, Security at Microsoft shares his knowledge on common API Security vulnerabilities with Akto.

Clickjacking ( UI redressing) is a type of attack where a malicious website tricks a user into clicking on something different from what they intended

Content Security Policy (CSP) is a security mechanism designed to mitigate cross-site scripting (XSS) and other code injection attacks.

Directory Traversal vulnerability allows an attacker to access sensitive files or execute commands on the application server.

Akto team will be presenting at Arsenal at Black Hat USA 2023 in Las Vegas. Come and join the team!

Akto team will be presenting at DEFCON USA 2023 in Las Vegas. Come and join the team!

Join Akto's co-founders for a hands-on API Security training event at the Bay Area OWASP meetup on August 16, 2023.

Server-side template injection (SSTI) is a vulnerability that can allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on the server.

Akto's test editor is the world's first personalized API security testing tool. It is a simple, fast and scalable way to test APIs for security vulnerabilities.

Researchers discovered IDOR vulnerability in Microsoft Teams' IDOR that lets attackers inject malware into any organization.

IDOR is a type of security vulnerability that is caused by an application's failure to properly validate and authorize user input leading to unauthorized action.

CSRF is a type of attack that occurs when a user clicks on a malicious website, email, or another message that causes the user's web browser to perform an unwanted action on a trusted site on which the user is currently authenticated.

Learn about 25 must-have startup tools that early-stage startups can use to improve efficiency. These include internal documentation, collaboration and more..

CORS is commonly used to enable web pages to interact with APIs hosted on a different domain than the web page itself.

SQL Injection (SQLi) is a type of attack where an attacker injects malicious SQL code into a vulnerable application's database query.

API Security Automation case study using Akto by Oleg Greb, Visa Security team

In 2016, a security researcher discovered a vulnerability that allowed attackers to bypass Uber's two-factor authentication system and take over accounts by exploiting BOLA via parameter pollution.

The Equifax data breach in 2017, which exposed the personal information of 143 million individuals, was a result of a vulnerability in the Apache Struts API framework and a broken functionality level authorization (BFLA) in Equifax's web application.

Nearly a month ago we solved a very hard problem for our product, which involved automating auth token generation for a given website involving multiple login steps.

This blog is about the launch of AktoGPT launch, how AktoGPT unleashes the power of GPT to secure APIs!

This blog is about learning mass assignment vulnerability, how to find it manually, how to test for it using Akto and finally how to prevent it.

In this blog, we will compare the changes of OWASP API Security Top 10 2019 and OWASP API Security Top 10 2023 release candidate.

This blog will help developers to understand XSS, its types, how to discover and prevent it. XSS stands for Cross-Site Scripting, a type of vulnerability

In this blog, you will learn how to run bash commands on AWS EC2 instance restart.

XXE is a vulnerability in XML processing that attackers exploit to access sensitive data. Learn all about XML External Entity attack and how to prevent it.

In this blog, you will learn how to prevent Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) as a developer.

Learn about Toyota API security Breach: Unprotected internal endpoint led to privilege escalation.

Learn how to hire developers in an early stage startup, written by Akto CTO - Ankush Jain.

Learn about Akto's Burp extension in this blog.

This blog is about Akto's seed funding announcement.

This blog is about our Open source launch, why we went open source and what future holds for Akto Open Source.

Broken Object level Authorization is the most critical vulnerability in OWASP Top 10 of APIs.

Broken User Authentication is one of the most critical vulnerability in OWASP Top 10 of APIs.

In this blog, you will learn How to test JWT NONE Algorithm vulnerability using Akto.

In this blog you will learn how to test for Broken Object Level Authorization with weak enumerable user IDs.

This blog is about how to test for BOLA using unauthorized UUID on an API endpoint.

Learn how Researchers discovered XSS and SSRF Vulnerabilities in The Lego Marketplace Hack.

Learn how How T-Mobile API attack led to 37 million customers' Data breach.

Learn how Optus, the second-largest telecommunications provider in Australia had API security breach.

An IDOR flaw led to the exposure of sensitive bank details of hundreds of Florida taxpayers, causing a significant Florida data breach and highlighting critical vulnerabilities in data security protocols.

In this blog, you will learn how Curefit solved API security using Akto.

In this blog, we have analyzed 2022 security report from HackerOne for APIs.

Learn how to deploy Akto in 60 seconds.

This blog is about the CVE-2022-23529: RCE vulnerability discovered in JsonWebToken (JWT) library (Revoked).