APIs are the backbone of numerous popular web services because of their utility, ubiquity, and increasing architectural choices. Regardless of the API architecture chosen, there are shared factors that make them all vulnerable.
While API security remains a major concern for most organizations, most were unprepared, with only 11% having a concrete API security strategy to detect and stop API attacks.
Report found that API security was a major concern for businesses as malicious traffic grew triple that of legitimate sources and causing delays in application rollout.
Lessons to be learned from the recent rash of API security incidents is that you need to adopt a Shield Right while you Shift Left strategy to protect yourself from API security threats.
One would hope that credit bureau Experian had learned a lesson about data leaks but the agency has a new API security vulnerability that appears to have leaked the credit scores of nearly every American that has one.
