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The State of Public APIs 2023
tl;dr we scanned 6056+ public APIs on the internet with our in-house feedback driven exploration tech and ranked them using security, performance, reliability, and design criteria. We decided to analyze the resulting data and produce a full featured report: The State of Public APIs 2023
Why build this report?
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The EU’s PSD2: API Security and Financial Services
In 2015, the European Union adopted the Revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2). This legislative framework aimed to fix the financial services market, which was disrupted by the arrival of new innovative players.
The 2010s gave birth to numerous FinTech startups providing new services in addition to traditional banking institutions. These
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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
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Introducing API Security Posture Management for GraphQL
tl;dr The Escape Team is excited to announce the release of its latest feature, API Security Posture Management for GraphQL. This feature proposes a single API Catalog view to explore the security, integrity, and performance of all GraphQL operations in one place. See it for yourself in action
With
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Introducing OpenAPI.Security, a free tool to quickly check the security of REST APIs
tl;dr We released OpenAPI.security, an online tool that performs a dozen of security tests on any given OpenAPI/Swagger-based API, with no signup or email required
Our team at Escape is mainly focused on securing GraphQL APIs. For this, we developed a new approach called feedback-driven API exploration,
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Escape is proud to be backed by Y Combinator!
Escape is proud to announce that we are backed by Y Combinator, the world's most prestigious and well-known startup accelerator, joining the YC Winter 23 batch!
Y Combinator, known for investing in and mentoring early-stage startups, has an impressive portfolio of successful companies such as Airbnb, Dropbox, and
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GraphQL Vulnerability
The 8 Most Common GraphQL Vulnerabilities (and How to Fix Them)
We at Escape have been scanning GraphQL APIs for vulnerabilities for more than two years. In this post, we will share the most common GraphQL vulnerabilities, affecting close to all GraphQL APIs we have scanned. We strongly recommend you check your GraphQL APIs for these vulnerabilities.
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How to set up modern design system using Storybook and Figma
As our product expands, and so does our team, we need to have a better workflow. By basing themselves on a single source of truth, designers and developers speak the same language, and everyone can then focus on the essential: the user experience. This source of truth is called the
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Postman
Find & Fix GraphQL API Security Issues with Postman
Improve the security of your GraphQL API with Escape and Postman
Are you tired of dealing with pesky API vulnerabilities? Want to take your GraphQL game to the next level? Introducing the perfect combo for GraphQL success - Escape and Postman.
Escape is a tool that helps developers automatically and
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Feedback Driven API exploration at the service of GraphQL Security
Introduction
Automating the audit of APIs is a very hard problem: we want to dynamically evaluate those APIs' security, performance, and reliability.
But APIs take parameters that are tightly coupled to the underlying business logic. We need a way to know what sequences of requests to send, with what
Migrating from Vue 2 to Svelte
After using Vue 2 as our front-end framework for almost two years, it was announced that this support would no longer be maintained, so we decided to migrate to a new framework. But which one to choose: Vue 3 or Svelte?
Please note that our goals after the migration were
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Achieving end-to-end type safety in a modern JS GraphQL stack – Part 2
Welcome back! This article is the second and last part of the Achieving end-to-end type safety in a modern JS GraphQL stack series. Read the first part if you haven't yet!
Svelte
I won't go into the details of why Svelte, but I like Svelte a
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Achieving end-to-end type safety in a modern JS GraphQL stack – Part 1
In this article, we will create a simple GraphQL application, a message board, by combining many recent open-source technologies. This article aims to be a showcase of technologies that work well together rather than a complete tutorial on project setup. It is however a long read, so we decided to
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Pentesting
GraphQL Pentesting: Thinking Outside the Box
The hardest part when pentesting any system is undoubtedly answering the question:
💡How should we think of that?
What is meant is "how outside-the-box thinking works?", and "how is a pentester meant to think outside the box?".
Although tackling this question might seem like a near
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Escape and Snyk officially partner to make GraphQL Security accessible to all developers!
Snyk and Escape provide developers with the ability to secure their GraphQL applications during the development lifecycle through an industry-leading end-to-end AppSec approach that includes SAST, DAST, and Cloud Security.
SAST and DAST for GraphQL Applications
Integrating Escape with Snyk means that a dynamic application security testing tool (DAST) and
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Access Control and Data Segregation in multi-tenant GraphQL applications
If you have ever worked with GraphQL, you must know that ensuring proper data segregation and access control is implemented correctly is a nightmare, especially in multi-tenant environments.
Access control and data segregation are critical aspects of any multi-tenant application where multiple customers or tenants share the same application instance.
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How Gorillas's GraphQL API was leaking data from 10000 customers
German on-demand online grocery delivery company Gorillas took the industry by storm, guaranteeing delivery in under 10 minutes and gaining massive popularity throughout the pandemic.
Founded in May 2020, Gorillas rapidly spread to dozens of European cities and America. After only three funding rounds, the last of which was in
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Securing GraphQL Endpoints in the Full Development Lifecycle
I have been working on software development for a year, and I noticed that the essential thing in this process is getting results, not the development process itself. During development, developers usually integrate many different technologies into the project. For example, let's say we are developing a graphQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Security: How to Prevent Data Breaches
Manage your sensitive data in GraphQL applications (PII, passwords, secrets…)
We released a new feature in Escape that enables you to detect and fix data leaks with GraphQL.
🚫 The GraphQL Access Control issue, what is it?
Access control is the restriction that tells the user who or what can be
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