In the past decade, APIs have rapidly risen to become a top threat vector in the modern digital landscape. API breaches have been occurring at higher rates than ever before, and this is due in no small part to the fact that API regulation, standards and compliance are insufficient. Data points to the issue being API design, in many cases, which often goes overlooked.
The OWASP Top 10 and other lists do not contain complete knowledge needed to understand and mitigate risks. In order to stay on top of the threat, we need threat models and guidelines to help strengthen security postures. This is where the Center for Information Security (CIS) guidelines come in.
The CIS guidelines are a set of best practices designed to enhance cybersecurity measures. They function essentially as controls for your APIs that help ensure effective API security. They cover a wide range of topics, such as network and data security, system configuration, access control and more.
These guidelines can help your organization with compliance and policy, fortify your defenses against cyber threats and vulnerabilities and reduce risk of unauthorized access, data breaches, and other cyberattacks.
In this talk we'll go over how to read and implement the CIS guidelines, actionable steps, controls, implementation groups, monitoring, access control, regular updates, patch management, incident response, security configuration management, user education, awareness, and more.
The CIS guidelines provide steps security teams can take in their postures and simplify the process of security by giving cybersecurity professionals easy-to-follow steps and guidelines. Tune into this talk to learn how you can use them to strengthen your API security posture today.
