The AI-Era API Security Checklist for Node teams
40 checks across 9 areas, ranked by priority, with Node code you can paste and a prompt that has your coding agent audit your repo against all 40.
Most small teams don’t get breached by something clever. They get breached by a missing ownership check that an automated scanner found in two minutes.
AI didn’t invent new attacks against APIs. It made the old ones cheap: enumeration, credential stuffing, mass assignment and scraping, run at machine speed by something that never gets bored. More than half of web traffic is now automated, and 27% of bot attacks go straight at APIs.
If you’re a Node team of one to twenty people, there’s no security team to catch this for you. So we wrote the checklist we’d want every small team to run this week.
What’s inside
- 40 checks across 9 areas, ranked by priority. Start at the top and stop when you run out of afternoon. The first checks close the holes that get exploited most.
- Node code you can paste. Rate limits, JWT verification and request schema validation for Express and Fastify, not pseudo-code.
- Securing your own AI features. How prompt injection reaches your API through the features you built, and what to check before you ship one.
- An audit prompt for your coding agent. Hand it to Claude Code, Cursor or Copilot and get a check-by-check report on your repo against all 40.
Who it’s for
Node developers and small teams shipping APIs on Express, Fastify or NestJS, who handle security alongside everything else. No compliance jargon, no enterprise process. Just the checks, the code and the order to do them in.
Free. We’ll email it to you right away.