APIs expose application functionality and data directly and are frequent targets for unauthorized access, abuse, and data exposure.
Apply authentication, authorization, input validation, rate limiting, schema validation, secure transport, logging, and lifecycle controls to APIs.
| FRAMEWORK CODE | FRAMEWORK NAME & DETAILS | FAMILY / CATEGORY | VERSION | ACTION |
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| IRDAI | IRDAI Information & Cyber Security Guidelines IRDAI information and cyber-security requirements... Clause: §2.3-3.1 – User Identification and Accounts; §2.3-3.4 – User Authorization |
India
Guideline
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| RBI-CSF | RBI Cyber Security Framework / Master Directions RBI cyber-security requirements and directions set... Clause: 6) Application Security Life Cycle (ASLC) – 6.4 Security requirements for access, authentication, authorization, integrity, logging, audit trail, sessions and exceptions; 8) User Access Control / Management – 8.4 Centralised authentication/authorization, strong passwords, MFA, least privilege and segregation of duties |
India
Regulation
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| SEBI-CSCRF | SEBI Cyber Security & Cyber Resilience Framework SEBI’s Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience Framewor... Clause: 3.1 PR.AA: Identity Management, Authentication, and Access Control; 3.4 PR.IP: Information Protection Processes and Procedures |
India
Regulation
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| DORA | Digital Operational Resilience Act The EU Digital Operational Resilience Act establis... Clause: Article 9(4)(c) – Logical/physical access limitation and access-rights administration Article 9(4)(d) – Strong authentication, cryptographic keys and encryption |
EU
Regulation
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| HIPAA | Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA is a U.S. federal law supported by implement... Clause: § 164.312(a) Standard: Access control; § 164.312(f) Standard: Authentication |
US
Law
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| NIS2 | NIS2 Directive The NIS2 Directive establishes EU-wide cybersecuri... Clause: Article 21(2)(i) – Human resources security, access control policies and asset management |
EU
Directive
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| PCI-DSS | PCI DSS PCI DSS is an industry security standard maintaine... Clause: 6.2.1 – Bespoke and custom software are developed; 6.2.4 – Software engineering techniques or other; 6.4.1 – For public-facing web applications, new threats; 6.4.2 – For public-facing web applications, an |
PCI
Standard
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| NIST-CSF | NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) The NIST Cybersecurity Framework provides high-lev... Clause: PR.AA – Identity Management, Authentication, and Access Control | PR.AA-05 – Access permissions, entitlements, and authorizations are defined in a policy, managed, enforced, and reviewed, and incorporate the principles of least privilege and separation of duties |
NIST
Framework
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| NIST80053 | NIST SP 800-53 NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 presents control families, i... Clause: 3.1 – ACCESS CONTROL, 3.7 – IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION, 3.19 – SYSTEM AND INFORMATION INTEGRITY; AC-3 – ACCESS ENFORCEMENT, IA-2 – IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION (ORGANIZATIONAL USERS), SI-10 – INFORMATION INPUT VALIDATION |
NIST
Control Catalog
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| GDPR | General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) The General Data Protection Regulation is a bindin... Clause: Article 32(1)(b) – Confidentiality, integrity, availability and access resilience; Article 29 – Processing under the authority of the controller or processor |
EU
Regulation
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| NPCI-ISR | NPCI Information Security Requirements NPCI information-security requirements define cont... Clause: Security Measures / Controls; Application Security – API and POS Security; Identity and Access Management – Authorization |
India
Standard
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| SOC2 | SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria SOC 2 is an independent examination and reporting... Clause: CC6.1 – Logical and Physical Access Controls – The entity implements logical access security software, infrastructure, and architectures over protected information assets to protect them from security events to meet the entity's objectives. CC6.3 – Logical and Physical Access Controls – The entity authorizes, modifies, or removes access to data, software, functions, and other protected information assets based on roles, responsibilities, or the system design and changes, giving consideration to the concepts of least privilege and segregation of duties, to meet the entity’s objectives. CC6.7 – Logical and Physical Access Controls – The entity restricts the transmission, movement, and removal of information to authorized internal and external users and processes, and protects it during transmission, movement, or removal to meet the entity’s objectives. |
AICPA
Audit Framework
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