Tyk raises $35M for its open-source, open-ended approach to enterprise API management

APIs are the grease turning the gears and wheels for many organizations’ IT systems today, but as APIs grow in number and use, tracking how they work (or don’t work) together can become complex and potentially critical if something goes awry. Now, a startup that has built an innovative way to help with this is […] Continue reading Tyk raises $35M for its open-source, open-ended approach to enterprise API management

Developing Best Practices for API Security

APIs are pivotal to the overall success of a digital transformation. They allow developers to work across the digital assets and across multiple systems with ease. More organizations are adopting API initiatives, and are approaching digital transforma… Continue reading Developing Best Practices for API Security

For Hackers, APIs are Low-Hanging Fruit

By 2022, API abuses will become the most frequent attack vector, predicts Gartner. We’re already witnessing new API exploits reach the headlines on a near-daily basis. Most infamous was the Equifax breach, an attack that exposed 147 million accounts i… Continue reading For Hackers, APIs are Low-Hanging Fruit

Salt Security Report Highlights Prevalence of API Vulnerabilities

Salt Security, a provider of a platform for securing application programming interfaces (APIs), today published a report that reveals the existence of vulnerabilities in APIs in an unidentified platform employed widely in the financial services indust… Continue reading Salt Security Report Highlights Prevalence of API Vulnerabilities

Nylas, maker of APIs to integrate email and other productivity tools, raises $120M, passes 40k developers

Companies like Stripe and Twilio have put APIs front and center as an effective way to integrate complex functionality that may not be core to your own technology stack but a necessary part of your wider business. Today, a company that has taken that model to create an effective way to integrate email, calendars and […] Continue reading Nylas, maker of APIs to integrate email and other productivity tools, raises $120M, passes 40k developers

Salt Security lands $70M for tech to protect APIs from malicious abuse

APIs make the world go round in tech, but that also makes them a very key target for bad actors: as doorways into huge data troves and services, malicious hackers spent a lot of time looking for ways to pick their locks or just force them open when they’re closed, in order to access that […] Continue reading Salt Security lands $70M for tech to protect APIs from malicious abuse

Sinch, a Swedish customer engagement giant, raises $1.1B, SoftBank and Temasek participating

Sinch — a Twilio competitor based out of Sweden that provides a suite of services to companies to build communications and specifically “customer engagement” into their services by way of APIs — has been on a steady funding and acquisitions march in the last several months to scale its business, and today comes the latest […] Continue reading Sinch, a Swedish customer engagement giant, raises $1.1B, SoftBank and Temasek participating

Protecting Collaboration Channels for Remote Work

As COVID-19 unfolded in the first half of 2020, many of us set out to explore its long-term ramifications and imagine what the ‘new normal’ could look like. We also wanted to understand the second- or third-order effects of remote working and accelera… Continue reading Protecting Collaboration Channels for Remote Work

API Security Need to Know: Lessons Learned From the Peloton Security Incident

By now most have heard about the Peloton data breach incident and no doubt the security team at Peloton is working long, hard hours to pull themselves out of this horrible situation. The damage is done but there are lessons we can, and should, learn fr… Continue reading API Security Need to Know: Lessons Learned From the Peloton Security Incident