Today, everything your employees use is an app. A Tesla isn’t really a car – it’s a four-wheeled, API-based app. Every one of the 142B+ iOS and Android-based app downloads, including sales apps, marketing apps, third-party or self-developed apps are all API-based. Designed for machine-to-machine interaction, APIs include all necessary commands, payload, and data to produce engaging user interactions. And therein lies the risk. If not carefully documented and tested, your APIs could be exposing too much information, introducing security and compliance risks.

In an analysis of more than 14 billion API-based application requests, researchers at Cequence Security found explosive use of GraphQL, APIs referencing health monitoring services, OpenAPI specifications and sensitive data patterns, validating that APIs are the development tool of choice. The same power and flexibility found in APIs is also what makes them prone to data leakage errors and the #1 target for malicious use, validated by the fact that 80% of ALL blocked attacks were API-based.

Attend this session to fully understand the API security risks your organization faces.

Topics include:

• Security risks associated with the increased use of health monitoring APIs, API specifications, and GraphQL.
• Compliance and governance risks related to APIs that may inadvertently expose sensitive data.
• Why APIs used to facilitate account login/registration and inventory lookups are more susceptible to automated attacks