Top API Risks And How To Mitigate Them
SearchSecurity, Friday, September 6th, 2024
While APIs play an essential role in most modern business strategies, they can also introduce serious security threats. Learn some of the top API risks and how to mitigate them.
While today's enterprises regularly provide APIs to their in-house applications, allowing them to communicate with other software, these interfaces sometimes have security vulnerabilities that put sensitive data at risk. At worst, they open the door to API attacks that could lead to catastrophic data breaches.
Some of the top API risks arise from publishing APIs, while others stem from consuming APIs to integrate with systems elsewhere.