Embedded in every digital or cloud initiative your organization launches, there’s a growing ecosystem of application programming interfaces (APIs) that enable revenue-driving innovation. The trouble is: Your APIs have also quickly emerged to become a key vector for attacks. Threat actors know APIs can provide a fast, direct path to a company’s most sensitive data. The vulnerabilities are many: APIs often go into production with misconfigurations, lax authentication controls, and unintended exposure to the internet — all of which an attacker can easily exploit.