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F5 announced a report which analyzes the serious threat to business and the economy posed by the global proliferation of APIs. When APIs gained widespread adoption in the early 2000s, they were primarily viewed as a technical solution enabling applicat… Continue reading API sprawl: A threat you might want to address later, but you can’t ignore it
Akamai released a research into the evolving threat landscape for application programming interfaces (APIs), which according to Gartner will be the most frequent online attack vector by 2022. APIs are inherently designed to be fast and easy pipelines b… Continue reading API attacks are both underdetected and underreported
McAfee and FireEye released its 2022 Threat Predictions, examining the top cybersecurity threats they predict enterprises will face in 2022. Bad actors have taken note of successful tactics from 2021, including those making headlines tied to ransomware… Continue reading Top cybersecurity threats enterprises will face in 2022
As cybercriminals remain steadfast in their pursuit of unsuspecting ways to infiltrate today’s businesses, a new report by IBM Security X-Force highlights the top tactics of cybercriminals, the open doors users are leaving for them and the burgeoning marketplace for stolen cloud resources on the dark web. The big takeaway from the data is businesses […]
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Organizations aren’t slowing down in their use of application programming interfaces (APIs). According to a survey covered by DEVOPSdigest, 61.3% of organizations used more APIs in 2020 than they did a year earlier. An even greater proportion (71.3%) said they plan to use even more APIs in 2021. Another 21.2% expected to use the same […]
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This article is the second in a three part series focused on application security in the API-first era. The articles summarize a 3-part executive series in which leading global security and technology executives discussed how their organizations … Continue reading Four best-practices for introducing new application security standards to secure APIs
Of all those who potentially face a threat from the recently disclosed vulnerability on the Cisco Firepower Device Manager (FDM), MSSPs could feel the impact the hardest if adversaries decide to exploit it. “An MSSP may be operating Cisco Firepower De… Continue reading MSSPs Particularly Vulnerable to Cisco FDM Flaw
A Salt Security survey of more than 200 security, application and DevOps professionals finds 94% of respondents have experienced an API security incident in the past 12 months, with nearly two-thirds (64%) having delayed application rollouts as a resu… Continue reading Survey Finds API Security Incidents on the Rise
As a co-founder of Cequence, I get the pleasure of seeing firsthand how our products help our customers protect their APIs from malicious attacks that can lead to fraud and data loss. However, the challenge any small company has is getting the word out… Continue reading Gartner Recognition: When it Rains, it Pours…
Editor’s note: This post was originally published in July 2021 in ToolBox.
Back in 2017, Gartner predicted that API abuse would be the most frequent attack vector for data breaches by 2022. Two years later, when exposed APIs already made up 40% o… Continue reading API-First Strategies Require API-First Security