api-security-design

api-security-design is an Application security skill for AI agents, published by vinayaklatthe in the microsoft-security-skills repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates api-security-design C (74/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.

Guidance for designing secure APIs on Azure - authentication, authorization, gateway controls, input validation, rate limiting, secret management, and runtime threat detection - aligned to OWASP API Security Top 10 and Azure API Management. WHEN: API security design, secure API, OWASP API Top 10, API authentication, API gateway security, rate limiting, validate JWT, protect backend API, API Management security policies, secure API architecture, BOLA, BFLA. DO NOT USE for general application security or web app design (use security-architecture / threat-modelling) or for API runtime detection only (use defender-for-apis).

Grade
C
Quality
74 / 100
Safety
Passed
GitHub stars
158

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Our review

Architecture
100 / 100
Maturity
Basic: a single SKILL.md
Security scan
No issues found
License
MIT
Adoption
Adopted by 0 other repositories, in 0 collections

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