Security News > 2022 > February > How do I select an API security solution for my business?

Tom Hickman, Chief Product Officer, ThreatX. API security is a hot topic in the industry today, but choosing the right API security solution is proving difficult for many organizations.

Protocol level: Validating the API is not being abused in terms of overutilization or quota abuse generally requires proxied inspection of API requests and potentially using an API gateway to manage API business requirements.

API authentication, authorization and rate-limiting, along with analytics for API usage and performance are core to API protection.

While it isn't easy, API protection can be greatly simplified using cloud-delivered platforms that unify web application firewall, bot management and API protection into a single solution for simplicity and reduce security posture fragmentation.

Ankur Singla, SVP & GM, Security Products Group, F5. The dynamic nature and sheer volume of APIs make it impractical for organizations to keep up with and feed API definitions to systems securing API endpoints.

Allowing the solution to learn the scope and nature of API communication over time - helping to identify shadow or undocumented APIs which may be leading to security gaps and persistent vulnerabilities.

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