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Review the API guidelines documentation and compare its security guidance with the OWASP REST Security Cheat Sheet links in the issue. Add the OWASP references where they provide useful detail without overloading the guidelines, then verify that both links are current and readable.

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Looking through the OWASP REST security recommendations, I don’t think you missed anything

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/REST_Security_Cheat_Sheet
https://github.com/OWASP/CheatSheetSeries/blob/master/cheatsheets/REST_Security_Cheat_Sheet.md,

Perhaps providing the above reference in the doc would be helpful though as a bit more detail and examples are available there. I realize we don’t want to overload the guidelines

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