#OWASP

OWASP provides security standards and testing methodologies for software applications. Posts cover OWASP integration with Agent Governance Toolkit (AGT), security assessment for multi-agent AI, and the OWASP-aligned controls that protect agentic systems from common vulnerability classes.

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Pratik Dhanave · ·13 min read

The Secure API Lifecycle

The finale of the API Security series — how to bake security into the way APIs are designed, built, tested, shipped, and operated, so that every control from the previous seven posts becomes a repeatable part of the pipeline instead of a one-time heroic effort.

The capstone: baking security into the API lifecycle — shift-left threat modeling, CI gates (SAST, SCA, secret scanning, spec-driven authz/BOLA and DAST tests that fail the build), an OWASP-API-Top-10-to-control map, and incident response.

#API Security#DevSecOps#Testing#OWASP#Security#APIs
Pratik Dhanave · ·11 min read

API Gateways and Runtime Protection

Part seven of the API Security series: the perimeter and runtime layer that enforces security consistently — the gateway as a policy enforcement point, the limits of a WAF, keeping an honest inventory of every endpoint you expose, hardening defaults, and watching the traffic for abuse you can only see at runtime.

The perimeter and runtime layer: the API gateway as a policy enforcement point (and why it can't replace per-service authz), WAF limits, improper inventory management (shadow/zombie APIs), security misconfiguration, and runtime detection.

#API Security#API Gateway#OWASP#Monitoring#Security#APIs
Pratik Dhanave · ·15 min read

Rate Limiting and Resource Consumption

Part five of the API Security series: why limits are a security control and not just an ops knob, how the four rate-limiting algorithms trade off, which dimensions to key on, and how to protect expensive queries and sensitive business flows from bulk abuse.

Rate limiting as a security control (OWASP API4/API6): the algorithms and their trade-offs, keying on authenticated identity not just IP, 429 + Retry-After, protecting expensive operations, and defending sensitive business flows from bulk abuse.

#API Security#Rate Limiting#OWASP#Availability#Security#APIs
Pratik Dhanave · ·12 min read

Authorization: BOLA, BFLA, and Object-Level Access

Why the biggest class of API bugs is not about who you are but about what you are allowed to touch — and how to check ownership, function access, and property access on every single request.

The dominant class of API bugs: broken object level authorization (BOLA/IDOR — the #1 API risk), broken function level authorization, and object property level (mass assignment / excessive data exposure) — with allow-listed DTOs, ownership checks, and deny-by-default.

#API Security#Authorization#OWASP#Access Control#Security#APIs
Pratik Dhanave · ·11 min read

The API Security Landscape

Why APIs became the primary attack surface, how API risk differs from classic web-app risk, and the OWASP API Security Top 10 framework this series builds on.

The opener to an API security series: why APIs are the primary attack surface, the OWASP API Security Top 10 (BOLA, broken auth, BFLA, SSRF, misconfiguration, inventory…), how API security differs from web-app security, and how to threat-model an API.

#API Security#OWASP#Security#APIs
Pratik Dhanave · ·11 min read

The AI Security Landscape

Why LLM and agent applications open a genuinely new attack surface, the mental models to reason about it (OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, MITRE ATLAS, NIST AI RMF), and how to threat-model an AI system before you write a line of defensive code.

The opener to a series on securing LLM and agent systems: why AI apps have a new attack surface (instructions and data share one channel, tools grant real power), the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, MITRE ATLAS, and how to threat-model an AI system.

#AI Security#LLMs#OWASP#Security#Concurrency

All posts on this site are written by Pratik Dhanave, an Agentic AI Architect with 7+ years building production distributed systems, multi-agent AI platforms, and cloud-native infrastructure. About the author → Each article includes working code, architecture diagrams, and references to the specific frameworks and standards discussed. Browse all posts or explore related topics using the tag cloud above.