API Security Best Practices for Developers
In today's digital world, APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are crucial for seamless software communication. However, this reliance on APIs brings significant security challenges, making them targets for malicious actors.
This blog post explores essential API security best practices, covering common vulnerabilities like injection attacks and broken authentication, and strategies such as implementing strong authentication mechanisms (OAuth, JWT), input validation, encryption, rate limiting, secure API design, monitoring, and regular security testing.
API4AI, with extensive experience in API development, shares insights and invites developers to test our secure image processing APIs. Join us in adopting a security-first mindset and continuously improving API security to build a safer digital world.
Thinking About Content Moderation: The Problem of Interpretation
In the digital landscape, the interpretation of NSFW (Not Safe For Work) content presents a unique challenge due to its subjective nature. For example, an image of a woman in a bikini may be acceptable in some contexts but not in others. To address this, we've introduced a 'strictness' query parameter in our NSFW API. This feature allows businesses to adjust the level of content moderation to suit their specific needs. By default, the algorithm is set to maximum strictness, but it can be tailored to be less strict, providing a flexible solution to the diverse challenges of digital content moderation.