Why API security is imperative
In the race to meet customers’ needs, organizations face pressure
to quickly develop and produce and enhance applications, services,
and GenAI tools. This need for speed unfortunately results in a
hidden risk: The APIs working behind the scenes for all these
innovations are often built with misconfigurations, coding errors,
and missing security controls. And when these APIs reach the
production stage, it’s not just end users interacting with them;
attackers are constantly testing out ways to compromise the APIs
and access the data they exchange.
Misconfigured and compromised APIs are increasingly a key
driver of significant data breaches, and yet few organizations
are able to keep tabs on the thousands of API calls within their
digital ecosystems. Fewer still are fully protected against runtime
API threats.