In software development and your DevOps processes—from design to deployment—security must be at the forefront of your mind. Make it an afterthought, and security incidents will come back to bite you.

In this post, we’re going to tackle a common but critical oversight committed by developers of GraphQL APIs—the enabling of introspection features in production environments. Introspection is an incredible feature for understanding and testing your API capabilities when you’re in the development stage. But if you don’t disable it before going live, you open up your application to significant vulnerabilities. We’ll discuss how this can escalate into a major security risk, along with preventative steps you can take to tighten up security in your DevOps pipeline.

The Scenario

Imagine a development team spearheading the implementation of their organization’s GraphQL API. GraphQL is a powerful query language designed to let clients request exactly what they need in a single query.…