Security News > 2021 > June > Billions of Compromised Records and Counting: Why the Application Layer is Still the Front Door for Data Breaches

Research finds that nearly 50% of data breaches over the past several years originated at the web application layer.

Each part of the software development lifecycle interacts with a variety of data stores to enable real-time results and improved user functionality, setting up potential data security hazards.

Further, the volume of first and third-party APIs that have access to organizational data is multiplying by the second, creating additional risk for a data breach attack.

With that context, it's clear to see why data breaches originating at the application layer are a growing trend.

Maintaining a fully patched database and using native security features - such as data encryption and defined lists of users and authorizations - might seem like enough to protect stored data.

It's why organizations need to implement security for all their data stores, with a focus on protecting the data itself - not just the applications and networks that surround and interact with them.

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https://threatpost.com/billions-of-compromised-records-and-counting/166633/