Understanding cyber threats to APIs

guest · Jun 6, 2020

Understanding cyber threats to APIs
June 5, 2020
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2020/06/05/api-security-threats/

Security issues for APIs
The many benefits that APIs bring to the software and application development communities – namely, that they are well documented, publicly available, standard, ubiquitous, efficient, and easy to use – are now being leveraged by bad actors to execute high profile attacks against public-facing applications.

The ubiquity and stateless nature of APIs are beneficial in many ways, but they also introduce numerous challenges that traditional security technologies cannot address. By design, APIs do not have a client-side component, so traditional defense techniques like Captchas or JavaScript and mobile SDK instrumentation cannot be used elegantly to prevent an automated attack.
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