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Regardless of what kind of technology you're working with, boosting productivity is pivotal in today's market due to the proliferation of new innovations, the increase of AI, and an increasing consumer demand for a faster time to market. Developer productivity holds immense importance, not merely in coding faster but in making every minute count, particularly when time is constantly working against you ...
Everyone can agree that application programming interface (API) security is important, but whose responsibility is it? Many organizations don't have a clear answer — and this presents a major opportunity for developers to step up into an important new role: API champion ...
The acceleration of digital transformation and subsequent rise in API, containerization, and multi-cloud deployments are creating a dynamic attack surface that's growing increasingly complex. Maintaining visibility to keep track of new, changed, unmanaged, or insecure APIs grows increasingly difficult ...
While developers are facing internal pressure to build next-generation applications at astronomical speed, security teams are wrangling with an increasingly volatile cyber threat landscape, growing consumer concerns for applications built to secure their data, and the broad surface of threats they have to cover along with API security ... In most instances, the roadblocks faced by both teams comes down to a lack of clear communication and the absence of workflow policies and procedures, which often prove detrimental.So how can organizations start to bridge this gap and enable these teams to perform together at the highest level? ...
Part 2 covers application development: In 2024, composable applications will gain prominence as organizations seek faster development cycles, scalability, and cost efficiency ...
The OWASP Foundation updated the API Security Top 10 list for 2023, outlining the most critical security risks for APIs in production. The updated guidance highlights just how much the API security landscape has changed since the original list was published in 2019 — including the rapid rise of business logic attacks (BLAs). Three of the top five categories on the Top 10 list are now related to business logic abuse, compared to just two in 2019. The updated list underscores the fact that if organizations want to bolster their API security, implementing safeguards capable of detecting and remediating abuse of business logic needs to be a priority ...
The marriage between AI and API security seems like an odd pairing at first. Dubbed a threat to API security, generative AI applications can be easily customized to create and run multiple scenarios to expose weaknesses in APIs. Moreover, given the right datasets, hackers can train AI to plan and execute attacks that evade traditional API security solutions. However, those qualities make artificial intelligence and machine learning the technology that may be missing in your API security stack ...
In the battle to secure APIs, many organizations are losing. The reason being that many organizations don't know the extent of API risk. From complacency in creating comprehensive security risk profiles for APIs, failing to pinpoint API endpoints managing sensitive data without adequate authentication, and deferring finding a consensus on who should own the responsibility of API security, organizations are coming up short ...
While most may be scared of goblins and ghouls this Halloween, the real threat to enterprise organizations this spooky season are zombie APIs. Though it may be Halloween, developer and security teams are spooked year round by these undetected threats. According to a recent report, approximately 92% of organizations have been impacted by at least one API security-related incident in the past 12 months, while 57% reported experiencing multiple API security incidents in the same time frame ...
The majority (75%) of organizations typically change or update their APIs on a daily or weekly basis, creating a significant challenge for protecting the changing API attack surface, according to Securing the API Attack Surface, a report from Data Theorem and ESG ...
With the rapid increase in API usage also comes an increase in malicious actors targeting APIs as a gateway to customer and company data. That's why ensuring that your API integrations are safe is no longer simply a technical requirement, it is a responsibility that developers and organizations cannot take lightly. Here are three ways to ensure that your next API integration doesn't leave you, or your users, vulnerable ...
API security should be a key part of any organization's security strategy today; however, it's often overlooked. APIs make up 83 percent of all web traffic, and they play a vital role in nearly all modern mobile and web applications, as well as containers and microservices. APIs are designed to be accessed by third parties, which exposes them to a broader spectrum of potential attacks compared to traditional web applications ...
APIs don't exist in a vacuum — they need a way to be tied to your backend systems. This is where a multi-function iPaaS can assist. When combined with the power of API governance to support DevOps, you've just equipped your team with its version of Batman and Robin, the heroes of your organization's digital transformation ...
Developers are leveraging a variety of tools, platforms, languages, and services to deliver more sophisticated features and functionality. However, every additional component used to build an application increases the size of the attack surface and the risk of an attack. Threat actors have a greater chance of discovering a vulnerability, misconfiguration, or bug that can serve as a toehold into the environment ...
Fraud detection, typically seen as a solution outside of cybersecurity, has taken on a new dimension in recent times. Digital fraud has emerged as a significant threat to businesses and individuals alike. APIs play a pivotal role in this landscape, often serving as the gateway for fraudulent activities ... As the sophistication and frequency of digital fraud continue to rise, understanding the connection between API security and fraud has never been more critical ...
APIs are incredibly important in today's digital landscape. They play a crucial role in enabling communication and interaction between different software applications, systems, and services. Due to the increasing reliance on APIs, they have gradually become the top target for hackers. As such, enterprises are placing more emphasis on API security to protect the integrity of data and services, build trust and confidence, and mitigate future risks ...
A recurring narrative is emerging in today's digital landscape, characterized by organizations grappling with managing and safeguarding the growing number of APIs within their ecosystem. At the 2023 RSA Conference, a survey conducted by Traceable brought some troubling facts to the surface about how organizations are handling their API security ...
As organizations increasingly rely on APIs to streamline their operations and drive innovation, the need to securely authenticate across these critical communication channels is more important and complex than ever. The Corsha State of API Secrets Report 2023 highlights the need for better tools, technologies, and tradecraft around API secrets ...
When developing software, you want the application to be as ready as possible before exposing it to the real world. In production, the software needs to be able to deal with many different scenarios, which we can prepare for using a virtual test environment that mimics the actual system ...
Service virtualization (SV) is a method that DevOps teams use to simulate components of an app's behavior. Components are APIs, databases, networks, devices, and more ... Using SV saves time, money, headache, and frustration ...
Developers have significantly increased their use of APIs in 2022 and plan to continue doing so in 2023, according to the State of APIs Report from Rapid. Developers know agility is critical for businesses to grow and survive and that APIs are the key to gaining the speed and flexibility necessary to make this happen ...