As cloud-native development and DevOps adoption grows, the importance of application and API security correspondingly increases, and must become priorities for successful organizations. Every API is a potential attack vector, and threat actors have a variety of avenues at their disposal to compromise endpoints. Attacks on availability, exploitation of weak authentication, and the abuse of shadow APIs and business logic are all common and can easily lead to account takeover, sensitive data loss, and fraud.

TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) surveyed 385 IT and cybersecurity professionals in North America (U.S. and Canada) to gain insights into the processes and tools that span the software development process from development to runtime that help teams discover, manage, configure, monitor, and protect organization’s APIs.

Read this informative eBook to gain insight into:

• API usage and proliferation with modern application development trends.
  
• Challenges with and concerns over API security.
  
• Best practices for managing API security risk and protecting applications from attacks.
• The roles and personas involved with API security, and the need for training and awareness.