Most Twilio tutorials get you to 'working' fast and security never. Here's how to build the SMS integration correctly from the start.
Building a Twilio SMS Integration Securely: What Most Tutorials Skip Most API integration tutorials have the same structure: here's the quickest path to "it works." Install the SDK, paste your credent...
A practical guide to building APIs that are secure by default — covering input validation, auth patterns, rate limiting, logging, and error handling.
Building a Secure API 90 Percent of the Time Let me be upfront about the title. You cannot build a perfectly secure API. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. But you absolutely can bui...
A practitioner's breakdown of the OWASP API Security Top 10 — what the attacks actually look like and what you can do about them.
Explore API Security - How Do Attacks Happen If you've spent any time in DevSecOps, you already know APIs are the new perimeter. They've eaten the old monolithic app model, and now almost every intere...
An honest review of 'Hacking APIs' by Corey Ball — who should read it, what you'll learn, and how it reshapes your approach to API security.
Hacking APIs by Corey Ball — An AppSec Engineer's Review I picked up "Hacking APIs: Breaking Web Application Programming Interfaces" by Corey Ball after seeing it recommended repeatedly in security ci...
From a defender's perspective: how attackers approach API hacking, and why understanding offense makes you a dramatically better defender.
How to Hack APIs - Approaches from DevSecOps There's a saying in security that I keep coming back to: you can't defend what you don't understand how to attack. I believe that fully. Not in a "let's al...