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==How can I participate in your project?==
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This project welcomes contributors of all sorts. The easiest way to get involved is to contact the Project Leader, and indicate that you're willing to help.
Many projects have "Frequently Asked Questions" documents or pages. However, the point of such a document is not the questions. ''The point of a document like this are the '''answers'''''. The document contains the answers that people would otherwise find themselves giving over and over again. The idea is that rather than laboriously compose and post the same answers repeatedly, people can refer to this page with pre-prepared answers. Use this space to communicate your projects 'Frequent Answers.'
 
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==What type of contributors are you seeking?==
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We're currently looking for software developers who have experience building out resilient APIs, and security assessors who have assessed APIs. This project is currently in the "research" stage, meaning that the more you can contribute to building out the project, the better!
  
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==Can I still participate if I'm not a developer/assessor?==
All you have to do is make the Project Leader's aware of your available time to contribute to the project. It is also important to let the Leader's know how you would like to contribute and pitch in to help the project meet it's goals and milestones. There are many different ways you can contribute to an OWASP Project, but communication with the leads is key.
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Sure -- we just need to figure out the correct role. If you're strong with technical writing, that would be great; if there are other skill sets you think you can bring to the table, please let us know.
 
 
==If I am not a programmer can I participate in your project?==
 
Yes, you can certainly participate in the project if you are not a programmer or technical. The project needs different skills and expertise and different times during its development. Currently, we are looking for researchers, writers, graphic designers, and a project administrator.  
 
  
 
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Revision as of 17:58, 20 October 2015

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OWASP API Security Project

This project seeks to address the ever-increasing number of organizations that are deploying potentially sensitive APIs as part of their software offerings. These APIs are used for internal tasks and to interface with third parties. Unfortunately, many APIs do not undergo the rigorous security testing that would render them secure from attack.

The OWASP API Security Project seeks to provide value to software developers and security assessors by underscoring the potential risks in insecure APIs and illustrating how these risks may be mitigated. In order to facilitate this goal, the OWASP API Security Project will create and maintain a Top 10 API Security Risks document, as well as a documentation portal for best practices when creating or assessing APIs.

Description

While working as developers or information security consultants, many people have encountered APIs as part of a project. While there are some resources to help create and evaluate these projects (such as the OWASP REST Security Cheat Sheet), there has not be a comprehensive security project designed to assist builders, breakers, and defenders in the community.

This project aims to create:

  • The OWASP Top Ten API Security Risks document, which can easily underscore the most common risks in the area.
  • Create a documentation portal for developers to build APIs in a secure manner.
  • Work with the security community to maintain living documents that evolve with security trends.

Licensing

The OWASP API Security Project documents are free to use!

The OWASP API Security Project is licensed under the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license], so you can copy, distribute and transmit the work, and you can adapt it, and use it commercially, but all provided that you attribute the work and if you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.

What is the OWASP API Security Project?

The OWASP API Security Project seeks to deliver actionable documentation on creating and deploying verifiably secure web APIs, as well as illustrating the major risks and shortfalls that APIs may encounter. By helping developers create resilient software, and helping assessors understand the subtle risks an API may entail, the goal of this project is to bring security to an increasingly programmatic world.

Presentation

The OWASP API Security Project will be presented in 2016.

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Quick Download

Once API Security documents are created, they will be available for direct download here.

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