APIs power the modern enterprise as an essential component of digital modernization, mobile and web applications and AI-powered tools. Bridging critical yet seamless connections between customers and ...

A basic truism in IT is you can't protect what you don't know exists. Applicable to every facet of information security, the need for API security is front and center. "If you don't know where your ...

Oz Golan, co-founder and CEO, Noname Security (Image: Noname Security) The acquisition of Noname Security will enhance Akamai's web protection capabilities with advanced API security features to ...

The cornerstone of a secure web architecture is a web application firewall (WAF). A WAF is essentially a web proxy that sits in front of your web application, detecting and blocking web attacks and ...

The Internet of Things is creating serious new security risks. We examine the possibilities and the dangers. Read now After attacks against API servers have constantly risen over the past few years, ...

Akamai launched App & API Protector, the company’s next-generation web application and API protection (WAAP) solution. It provides a holistic set of protections built for today’s modern applications ...

Broken object level authorisation, usually shortened to BOLA, is one of the most common API security issues because it sits in the gap between application logic and access control. In simple terms, ...

API security often involves third-party, rather than first-party, APIs, and each use case can have different requirements. Rather than trying to make one technological approach work for all instances, ...

APIs enable applications to exchange and consume data and services. Due to their ability to access an organization's sensitive data, APIs are an attractive target for malicious hackers and threat ...

Australian energy company Jemena has been using APIs, in some form, for about a decade. Its use of APIs — application programming interfaces — has jumped recently and is expected to increase fivefold ...