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Understanding Access Control Models: RBAC, ABAC, and DAC

Product Security

Understanding Access Control Models: RBAC, ABAC, and DAC

Different models of access control offer unique methods and benefits. The three primary models are Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC), and Discretionary Access Control (DAC).

Escape - Offensive Security
Escape API Security Checklist

API Security

Escape API Security Checklist

Are you looking to make your API security program stronger? Do you sometimes find it challenging to spot and address security vulnerabilities effectively? You're not alone! Many security professionals like you face challenges in improving API security because technology and cyber threats keep changing. This makes ensuring strong API security a complex but vital task. This checklist can help. You can use these guidelines to improve your API security posture. Feel free to adapt these guidelines t

Tristan Kalos
CSRF vs XSS: What is the difference?

Best Practices

CSRF vs XSS: What is the difference?

Web safety matters. XSS is like sneaky bad notes, while CSRF tricks sites as if it's you. Both misuse website trust. We'll explore how they work and how to protect sites, including using CSRF tokens. Learn about online security with us!

Swan Beaujard
How to automate API Specifications for Continuous Security Testing (CT)

REST

How to automate API Specifications for Continuous Security Testing (CT)

While GraphQL APIs are growing in popularity due to their flexible query capabilities, REST currently remains the dominant architectural style for building web APIs. Unlike GraphQL, traditional REST technologies do not inherently provide an interactive schema that clients can use to explore the API. At Escape, we decided to use OpenAPI specifications or Postman Collections as input to a REST scanner instead of GraphQL schema. However, the following issue arises in this context: not all APIs hav

Younes Haddou
APIRank.dev: we scanned and ranked 6031+ public APIs on the internet

Announcement

APIRank.dev: we scanned and ranked 6031+ public APIs on the internet

tl;dr we scanned 6031+ public APIs on the internet with our in-house feedback driven exploration tech and ranked them using security, performance, reliability, and design criteria. The results are public on APIrank.dev. You can also request to index your own API for free and see how it compares to others. Why APIrank? 🤔 During a YC meetup, I spoke with fellow founder Andrew Kim from Finex. He told me about their struggle to select the right API providers in his past companies. It's true tha

Tristan Kalos