AI & API Security For Dummies (Fourth Salt Security Special Edition, 2026) explains how modern apps depend on APIs and why that makes APIs prime attack targets, especially as cloud-native designs, microservices, and DevOps accelerate API growth and complexity. It outlines foundational practices like documenting and inventorying APIs to reduce drift, using CI/CD security testing (SAST, DAST, schema validation) while noting these miss business-logic abuse, and applying mediation via gateways and related proxies for access control and basic filtering. It then surveys OWASP API Security Top 10 issues and automated attacks, and extends the discussion to AI, MCP, and agent-to-agent workflows, emphasizing discovery, strong authN/authZ, rate limiting, input validation, and behavior-based detection

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