A Guide to Modern API Security

APIs are like highways: They’re everywhere, and although they provide the foundation for interaction between all manner of resources, they also pose challenges. With APIs, those challenges include, first and foremost, security risks. The more APIs you use, and the more complex your API architectures, the harder you’ll need to work to ensure that security issues with APIs don’t undercut the value that APIs bring to your applications and infrastructure. Issues such as weak API authentication, injection attacks against API endpoints, API sprawl and more can turn APIs into the weakest link in your security strategy, if you don’t address these risks effectively.