Expanding Our Reach To Deliver World-Class API Protection to Europe and the Middle East

When the pandemic hit in early 2020, we weren’t sure what it would do to our business – would demand halt because of economic uncertainty? Would threats decrease or increase? What kind of impact would the pandemic have on application development?   Aut… Continue reading Expanding Our Reach To Deliver World-Class API Protection to Europe and the Middle East

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

Announcing General Availability of Cequence API Sentinel 2.0

Today we are happy to announce the general availability of version 2.0 of Cequence API Sentinel. This release brings to market several exciting new capabilities requested by our customers, enabling Cequence to continuously discover, monitor and protect… Continue reading Announcing General Availability of Cequence API Sentinel 2.0

When “Good Enough” Bot Protection Negatively Impacts the Bottom Line

Lending support to the business impact of bots we discussed in a webinar a few weeks ago, Google has released the results of a survey performed by Forrester, further quantifying the true impact malicious bots have on an organization. Driven by a global… Continue reading When “Good Enough” Bot Protection Negatively Impacts the Bottom Line

Industry Recognition for Runtime Application Security: Omdia Research

With ever-increasing cyber threats, it’s important that organizations continually assess the effectiveness of their application security. One of the areas often left under protected is runtime, which is where the Cequence Application Security Platform … Continue reading Industry Recognition for Runtime Application Security: Omdia Research

Reality Check: Automated Shopping Bots are a Business Problem

Last week, I had the pleasure of participating in a webinar on automated shopping bots with Sandy Carielli, Security and Risk Analyst at Forrester Research. The webinar highlighted two things for me: automated shopping bots are a complex problem and th… Continue reading Reality Check: Automated Shopping Bots are a Business Problem

Bot-as-a-Service: The Consumerization of Botting

We are fast approaching the end of 2020. A year that was different in many ways due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the impacts on retail were no exception. There has been widespread coverage of retail strategies to survive as physical stores remain clos… Continue reading Bot-as-a-Service: The Consumerization of Botting

The Open Banking API Security Imperative

The second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) in Europe, which requires banks to open their payment services to third parties via a series of APIs, has enabled a range of new FinTech products that make it easier for consumers and businesses to manage th… Continue reading The Open Banking API Security Imperative

How the HR System Enabled my Promotion to CEO

Just kidding. I am happy to remain an individual contributor. However, if the HR system API had been implemented without the appropriate levels of authorization control, commonly referred to as broken object-level authorization (BOLA), it could be expl… Continue reading How the HR System Enabled my Promotion to CEO