The Curious Case of API Security: Solving the Top 11 API Threats

APIs are simultaneously a great benefit and a significant threat for the enterprise. Serving as gateways to important functionality and data, APIs enable enterprises to make key resources available to developers, mobile apps, consumers and other companies. This benefit is what also makes APIs a threat, because they represent an extremely valuable target for attackers. The job for security architects is to ensure that APIs offer the right functionality without also giving attackers a key to the enterprise kingdom. That’s trickier than it sounds. This paper explores the most critical API threats and the corresponding countermeasures to help you thwart them.

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