API security is everyone's priority... until release day.

Spent days writing API endpoints.

Added authentication.

Validated inputs.

Handled rate limits.

Then someone says:

"We'll do the security testing after launch."

🤦

It's funny because APIs are becoming more important in almost every application, and even industry reports from Market Research Future point to rapid growth in API security testing over the coming years.

Yet somehow security testing is still the first thing that gets pushed to "next sprint."

Then production becomes the test environment.

Every.

Single.

Time.